February 14, 2008
Simmons's recent grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for faculty career flexibility has received a
variety of media attention in the past two weeks, including
InsideHigherEd.com,
the National Association of
Independent Colleges and Universities online,
AOL Money News, the
Boston Business Journal online,
The
Houston Chronicle, KRON-TV (San
Francisco, Calif.), Los Angeles Times,
Breitbart.com,
a website providing real-time access to top news and analysis sources, including feeds from wires,
newspapers, networks, key blogs and more, and
RedOrbit.com, a website for space, science, health, and
technology enthusiasts around the globe.
President Susan Scrimshaw
and Associate Director of Academic Technology Gail Matthews-DeNatale
were interviewed in a Feb. 10
Boston Sunday Globe article about Simmons's blended learning
grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Announcements about the grant also ran in numerous
publications, including
Forbes magazine,
Boston Business Journal,
The Business Review (Albany), Syracuse.com (NY),
Yahoo! News, and
EarthTimes.org.
Deborah
Kolb, the Simmons School of Management's Deloitte Ellen Gabriel
Professor for Women and Leadership, was quoted in an MSNBC.com
"Careers" article about a recent survey on gender and
leadership in the workplace. Kolb said that in most surveys, women's leadership attributes and abilities are
on par with men, but they are seen as having less leadership potential than men.
A Jan. 14 Banker & Tradesman article about the American College
and University Presidents Climate Commitment listed Simmons among Massachusetts' signatories to the
document.
Simmons School of Management Alumna
Stephanie Creary was profiled in the Jan. 27
Boston Sunday Globe's
"Balancing
Acts" career column about "portfolio careerists," people who juggle multiple careers. Creary's mentor,
SOM Professor Stacy Blake-Beard, is
featured in two photos with her.
Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science Assistant
Dean Em Claire Knowles was interviewed in a Feb. 6
Boston Globe article about the rush to implement new security
measures in city libraries, following the rape of a six-year-old boy in the New Bedford Public Library.
Joyce Kolligian,
executive director of the Simmons School of Management
Leadership Conference was interviewed in a Feb. 6
Boston
Globe article about professional groups' use of celebrities to increase their event's attendance.
Liz Scott, assistant professor of biology and co-director of the
Simmons Center for Hygiene and Health in Home and
Community, published
an op-ed in the
Feb. 3 issue of The Eureka (Calif.)
Reporter about hand-washing as the best defense against stomach
flu.
A feature story on Emerita Professor of
Social Work Sophie Freud appeared in the Feb. 6
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in promotion of her appearance to discuss
her book, Living in the Shadow of the Freud Family.
