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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.