March 6, 2008
President
Susan Scrimshaw wrote a March 5
Boston Globe op-ed about making health a priority on college
campuses. Her article mentions Simmons's Health Education Program.
Zach Abuza, chair of
political science and
international relations, was interviewed in a Feb. 23
Associated Press article about
the increase in insurgents in Thailand.
An Associated
Press article on the importance of addressing racist comments quoted
Beverly Tatum, author of the
Simmons College/Beacon Press book
Can We Talk About Race? The article ran in scores of newspapers
nationwide in January and February, including the Chicago Tribune,
the Santa Fe New Mexican, the
Gainesville (Fla.) Sun, the
Daily Hampshire (Mass.)
Gazette, and the Mobile
(Ala.) Press-Register.
Communications Lecturer
Dan Connell was quoted in a Feb. 6
Washington Post article about a D.C.-area physician émigré from Eritrea who has been
denied asylum by the U.S. government.
The March 4
Boston Globe's "Names" column mentioned the
communications department's
"Wall of Fame," and its newest alumnae honoree, Hollywood producer Denise
DiNovi. In the column, DiNovi called her time as a student at Simmons "some of the greatest years of
my life."
Simmons School of Social Work Professor
Helen Reinherz's
recent
profile in the Boston Globe, which described her Simmons
Longitudinal Study, was mentioned in the February issue of NASW
News, the monthly newsletter of the National Association of Social Workers.
Simmons School of Social Work Alumna
Jean Fain, a psychotherapist and hypnotherapist,
was featured in the Feb. 21 Boston Globe, discussing her new
YouTube video, titled "Why a Twinkie?" The video promotes mindful eating, which Fain said is the key to
weight loss, not food deprivation.
A feature story on Simmons Emerita Professor of Social Work
Sophie Freud appeared in the Feb. 13 issue of the
Jewish Chronicle of Pittsburgh and the Feb. 21
Waltham
Daily News Tribune following appearances to discuss her book, Living in the Shadow of the Freud
Family.
An article about Simmons's blended learning
grant from the Alfred P. Sloan ran in the Feb. 11 edition of eSchool
News.
The Feb. 21
Duxbury
Reporter ran an article on the retirement of longtime
Simmons swim coach
Doug Backlund. The article also ran Feb. 26 on
CollegeSwimming.com.
Communications Department Chair
James Corcoran was quoted in articles in the
Forum of Fargo-Moorhead and
Dickinson
Press (Fargo, N.D.) about the 25th anniversary of the shootout between tax protestor Gordon Kahl
and U.S. marshals. Corcoran, who was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the shootout and the
federal trial that followed, is author of Bitter Harvest: Gordon Kahl and the Posse Comitatus - Murder in the
Heartland.
Assistant Professor of
Education
Russell Maguire was quoted in a Feb. 17
Fitchburg Sentinel & Enterprise article featuring high school
students' views of "out-of-control" celebrities. Maguire said young people don't look at the "downside" of
negative celebrity behavior.
A photo of recent MassBLAST interns appeared in the Jan. 23
Athol Daily News. MassBLAST is a project of the Simmons
library, the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, and
the UMass-Boston library in which high school interns work at libraries.
Simmons College was mentioned in articles in
the Needham Times, Tewksbury
Advocate, and Wellesley Townsman about the annual Belle of
the Ball event. Simmons is the site of the "boutique" for this April 26 event, which offers free gowns
to local high school girls who otherwise couldn't afford them.
A photo featuring the Simmons School of Social Work's
Dean Stefan Krug, Professor Hugo
Kamya, and student Paula Garrant appeared in the Jan. 24
Peabody Weekly News. Garrant raised funds for her study-abroad trip
to Uganda through activities at her child's school and at a local Girl Scouts troop.
Transfer student Stephanie Fox was featured in a Feb. 26
Springfield (Mass.) Republican article about her success
as a Simmons basketball player.
Basketball coach
Tony Price is quoted in the article.
The Feb. 17 Lawrence Eagle-Tribune included a feature story on
Sabrina Sanchez, a high school senior who will attend Simmons next
fall.
