March 21, 2008
An article in the April issue of
CondeNaste Portfolio magazine on sexism in the workplace featured an interview with former
Simmons School of Management co-founder
Ann Jardim. Also, this year's "MBA All Stars"
Boston Business Journal featured a profile and photo about School of
Management student Janet Takaringwa on Friday, March 21.
The April issue of Good Housekeeping magazine cited a recent Simmons
College study led by Nutrition Professor Elizabeth
Metallinos-Katsaras on calories in coffee drinks.
Zach Abuza, professor of
international
relations, was interviewed in a March 19
Cybercast News Service article about Easter threats against
Christians in Indonesia by the radical Islamist group Jemaah Islamiah. He also was interviewed in a March 20
AFP
wire service article about violence in Thailand's Muslim south provinces.
AFP (Agence France-Presse) provides news coverage to 165 countries
worldwide.
Alumna Desirae Simmons was featured in a February/March
Career World article titled "Report from the Real World." Simmons discussed how her years as a
student volunteer and intern at Jumpstart led to a full-time position, and how her former College roommates
continue to be a source of support and friendship. Career World is
published by the Weekly Reader Corporation.
Susanna Flug, associate director of service learning at the
Scott/Ross Center for Community Service, and senior
student Darcel Hunt were interviewed in a March 18
Boston Now article about the Boston Immersion Alternative Spring Break, organized by
Colleges of the Fenway. Hunt was one of the students who
spent her spring break tutoring local high school students and talking to them about college.
A
WIS-TV
(Columbia, S.C.) website article about graduates schools' efforts to recruit women in MBA programs included
quotes from Simmons School of Management
Dean Deborah Merrill-Sands and student C.A. Webb. The
story said the School of Management is designed specifically for women, and that its curriculum is tailored
by its research on the needs of women in business.
Performer and Grammy-winner Gloria Estefan, keynote speaker of the
May 3 School of Management Leadership Conference, was
interviewed in the March 12
Boston Herald's "Star Tracks" entertainment column. also Lawrence
Langer, professor emeritus of
English, was featured in a March 1
Boston
Globe article about a fraudulent Holocaust memoir by Misha Defonseca titled
Misha: A Memoire of the Holocaust Years. Langer, a Holocaust
scholar, had reviewed the manuscript for factual accuracy and pointed out numerous errors to the book's
publisher.
An article about a recent Simmons Graduate School of Library and
Information Science graduation ceremony for 25 Vietnamese librarians ran in the March 12 issue of
Thanh Nien News, a daily Vietnam newspaper. A grant from Atlantic Philanthropies enabled the
librarian students to study at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science before returning to
Vietnam to complete their coursework.
Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science is
Professor Margaret Bush and Susan
Bloom, associate professor emerita of the
Simmons Center for
the Study of Children's Literature, were thanked in an April 1 Horn
Book editorial. The two are retiring from service as reviewers for Horn Book, a publication featuring
reviews and articles about children's books.
The March 13
Boston Globe ran an article about the annual Belle of the Ball event and Simmons's role as the
site of the "boutique." The April 26 event offers free gowns to local high school girls who otherwise
couldn't afford them.
Simmons College was ranked 25 in a March 6 Boston Business Journal
list of the "Area's Largest Colleges & Universities." The list included educational institutions
throughout the Commonwealth.
March editions of
Hotel and Motel Management magazine and Boston Business Journal
announced the appointment of Simmons School of Management alumna
Denise Coll as president of Hotel Group, Starwood Hotels &
Resorts Worldwide, North America.
Basketball coach Tony Price is quoted in the
March 2 Boston
Globe describing the talent of new student basketball player Nikki
Cohen.
