April 18, 2008
Nutrition Professor
Teresa Fung's
DASH diet study has received a great
deal of media coverage, including
Associated Press and
United
Press International wire services, U.S.News
& World Report, Yahoo! Health, the
New York Times, the
Chicago Tribune, the Boston
Globe, China
View, and
WebMD.
Fung also was quoted in the April 7 U.S.News & World Report
article "Diets That Promote Health (and Always Have)."
The Associated Press ran an article and photos of the April 16 student lie-in that was picked up by media
outlets nationwide, including The Washington Post and
The Fresno (Calif.)
Bee. TV coverage included CNN, and Boston stations WBZ-TV,
WSBK-TV38 News, and WFXT-TV25 (FOX). The
Boston Globe and Boston
Herald ran their own photos, and student organizer Kate
McKendry appeared in pre-event articles in the Saugus Advertiser and
Waltham Daily News Tribune.
Sociology Professor
Becky Thompson, author of A Hunger
So Wide, and So Deep: a Multiracial View of Women's Eating Problems, was interviewed on National
Public Radio's News and Noteworthy program March 28 as part of a
roundtable discussion on Black women and eating disorders. Earlier that week, Thompson was mentioned on
NPR, when a former student's letter was read on the air as part of a series of stories about Barack Obama and
his historic speech on race. The letter credited Thompson's class for introducing her to the concept of
"color consciousness." She also co-authored an op-ed titled "Vote Vision, Not Race or Gender," for the
April 13 issue of
PoughkeepsieJournal.com. The article suggests that Democratic voters change their thinking
that is "based on ranking oppressions" and instead focus on Barack Obama's and Hillary Clinton's
qualifications and visions.
An article about Simmons senior Chelsea Graham's Fulbright award to
study maternal diabetes in Mexico ran
in
Mass High Tech and
The Citizen of Laconia (N.H) in early April.
Political Science and
International Relations Professor Zach Abuza was among the
experts interviewed in an April 13
Boston Sunday Globe story on the "deradicalization" of terrorists. Abuza said that while
some terrorists have forsworn violence, their views may still be extremist.
The April 13
Boston
Sunday Globe featured a review of
English Professor
Renee Bergland's new book, Maria
Mitchell and The Sexing of Science: An Astronomer Among the American Romantics (Beacon, 2008).
The Boston Metro,
Boston Business Journal, and Boston.com ran stories
announcing 2008 Commencement speaker Bianca Jagger, April
9.
The Simmons School of Management's recent study showing that women
executives who serve on non-profit boards
actively aspire to serve on for-profit
boards has appeared in a number of publications in March and April, including
Boston
Business Journal, Philanthropy Journal,
Boston.com,
CNBC.com,
Forbes.com,
FoxBusiness.com, KPLC-TV (Lake Charles, La.), WTKR-TV (Norfolk, Va.),
HR Solutions,
Investors.com,
SunHerald.com
(south Mississippi), and
womensenews.com.
Alumnae Professor of English
Afaa Michael Weaver was the
featured poet on
Poetry Daily.net, an online anthology of contemporary poetry, on
April 14. His Plum Flower Dance also was among the
book picks
selected by BaltimoreMagazine.net's April issue.
Communications Lecturer
Dan Connell and his new book
Old
Wrongs, New Rights: Student Views of the New South Africa, were
featured on the
front page of the April 11 Gloucester Daily Times. Connell
is editor of the book, which features a series of articles authored by Simmons student journalists about
South Africa's unfinished journey from apartheid to democracy. Published by Africa World Press, Inc.,
the book is based on a three-week trip to South Africa that Connell and his students took last May.
Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science Alumna
Harvey Varnet, the new University of South Carolina Beaufort library
director, was featured in an April 13
Beaufort
(S.C.) Gazette.com article about his role in helping to restore
Iraq's libraries Simmons Graduate School of Information Science Dean Michele
Cloonan also is quoted in the article.
Simmons School of Management graduate
Tammy Resor was featured March 30 in a
Boston
Globe "Achieving the Work-Life Balance" advertorial on about women going back to work after
raising their children March 30. The section was part of a special Diversity Boston supplement in the
Globe.
President Susan
Scrimshaw was featured on Barnard College's website as its
"Alumna in Action" for
the month of April.
Simmons student and softball team pitcher
Sammi Letizio was featured in the April 7
Lawrence Eagle-Tribune's
sports section.
Simmons Leadership Conference Executive Director
Joyce Kolligian was
featured in the "She's so skirt!" section of the March issue of
Skirt! magazine, a monthly publication for women in Boston.
An April 4
article in the San Francisco Business Times mentioned that
Simmons houses the first "women-focused" business school in the country. The article announces the
opening of the second such school, at Mills College in California.
The March 4 Cape Coral Daily Breeze (Fla.) mentioned a blended
learning certificate program Simmons is developing on cultural competence in health care management.
The Education Program's partnership with
Lawrence, Mass., middle schools to improve teacher advocacy was highlighted on Lawrence's cable access
station on April 4. The program featured the classroom-based research projects of 10 Lawrence teachers,
which resulted from Simmons's teacher development courses led by, and coaching visits with, education
faculty.
Simmons School of Social Work Professor
Beverly Sealey wrote a guest commentary about her experience as a
Fulbright Senior Scholar in Ghana for the March 6 Cambridge
Chronicle.
A story about Simmons School of Management alumna Denise Coll
becoming head of Starwood Hotels ran on earthtimes.org April
2.
