May 7, 2008
Nutrition Professor
Teresa
Fung's DASH Diet continues to receive media attention, with coverage including Xinhua News Agency
(the official press agency of the government of the People's Republic of China),
Times of India, and Boston Globe's
"White Coat
Notes."
School of Health Sciences Dean
Gerry Koocher was quoted in an April 9
USAToday article about a book for siblings of ill children. Koocher said that children have
trouble expressing their own needs to their parents when an ill sibling is receiving all the attention.
Wall Street Journal's
Health Blog for April 14, regarding today's need for more geriatric training for health-care workers,
referenced the Simmons School of Social Work students who do field
work placements at Hebrew Rehabilitation Center.
Announcements about human rights advocate Bianca Jagger serving as
Simmons's Commencement speaker ran in
Boston Business Journal and Conde
Nast's Portfolio.com April 8, and in New England Journal of Higher
Education April 17.
An April 21 Boston Globe feature story titled
"
Technology puts more pupils in the mainstream" mentioned
Simmons's Assistive
Technology Graduate Program ("the only school in the region to offer such a program") and its assistive
technology showcase at the Council for Exceptional Children convention, and quoted program director
Madalaine Pugliese. The story also was picked up by
Teacher Magazine's blog.
Entertainer Gloria Estefan was featured in an April 27
Boston Globe Q&A discussing her participation as the keynote speaker in the upcoming
School of Management Women's Leadership Conference.
The conference also was featured in a May 2
Boston Herald article, where it was referenced as "the world's pre-eminent women's leadership
conference."
Career Education Center Director
Andrea Wolf was quoted in a
bostonchannel.com (WCVB-TV) news story April 30 about
the economy's effects on job
hunting for the Class of '08. Wolf said that Simmons has a large focus on health care, education,
library science, and other fields, so its graduates aren't as affected by the market.
Graduate School of Library and Information Science Professor
Peter Hernon was featured in
Computers in Libraries journal April 1
about his Association of College and
Research Libraries "Librarian of the Year" award.
The Baltimore Examiner and The
Baltimore Sun's free newspaper, titled "b," publicized Alumnae Professor of
English
Afaa Michael Weaver's involvement in Baltimore's CityLit
Festival.
News about the Simmons School of Managements's adoption of the
Principles for Responsible Management Education was featured on
Yahoo!News April 30.
Coverage of Simmons's
Black Symposium, and keynote
speaker Anita Hill's speech, appeared on New England Ethnic News
April 14.
The April 17 Bay State Banner ran a photo of alumnae
Alicia Canady and Kelley
Chunn, co-chairs of
Simmons's Black Alumnae/i
Symposium, at the event.
Simmons's Girls Preparing to Succeed program, and student founder Julia
Reynolds,
were
featured in an April 20 article in the Boston Sunday
Globe. GPS is mentoring program for urban women students at the Rindge & Latin School and
Fenway High School.
Graduate Education Alumna Katherine Butler Jones
was profiled in the spring 2008 issue of the Mount Holyoke Alumnae
Quarterly about her experience as a teacher working to address racial imbalance in Boston area
schools.
Senior Natalie West was featured in an April 23
Brockton
Enterprise article about her success on Simmons's
softball and field hockey teams.
An article about the Simmons School of
Management's board survey appeared on the front
news page of Women's College Coalition website in April.
Simmons School of Management Assistant Professor
Patricia Deyton's recognition by The Boston Club was mentioned in the
March 20 Andover Townsman. She is a member of the club's NonProfit
Board Resource Committee.
