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The Simmons Alumnae/i Association is proud to announce that the recipient of the 2023 Priscilla McKee Award for Faculty and Staff is Simmons University Archivist & Deputy Director Jason Wood '01MS, '11MS. Jason received multiple nominations for this award, as...

• Awards and Honors

On April 30, Simmons students gathered at the residential campus to celebrate May Day, a longstanding tradition at Simmons. Attendees enjoyed complimentary food and gifts, live performances, and more. While the event has shifted and evolved over the years, it continues to honor the unique and supportive community at Simmons.

• Community Engagement
• Traditions & Annual Events

Dr. Rachel Deleveaux, Assistant Vice President of Organizational Culture, Inclusion, & Equity at Simmons (OCIE), recently completed her doctorate in Education from Northeastern University. Her doctoral dissertation, The Effects of Predominantly White School Culture and Black Mentorship on Black Academic Identity Development, is now available on Proquest.

• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Simmons University's College of Natural, Behavioral, and Health Sciences is using HoloLens and HoloAnatomy technology to teach anatomy to undergraduate students. A grant from the George I. Alden Trust is helping to fund this opportunity. The HoloAnatomy software, created by...

• Facilities
• Science and Technology

Last summer, the Multicultural Center, in partnership with the Office of Residence Life, launched the Bridge Pilot Program. The Bridge Pilot is a free transition program that enables new BIPOC students to participate, connect, learn, and grow with the Simmons...

• Community Engagement

"Virtual Reality is the Zoom of the future," says Assistant Professor Catherine Dumas. Simmons SLIS is on the cutting edge of using broadly accessible Virtual Reality (VR) technology as a general pedagogic tool. Dumas, along with Assistant Professor Rachel Williams...

• Research

On March 14, 2023, the Simmons Leadership Conference, organized by the Simmons University Institute for Inclusive Leadership (the Institute), took place at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston. This year’s conference theme, "Renewal and Innovation," focused on navigating the uncertainties...

• Leadership

Laura Saunders , Interim Director of Simmons School of Library and Information Science shared details on her recent discussion about the library field's role in intellectual freedom, as well as the current ethical and legal implications of that support. "There...

• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
• Social Justice & Advocacy

Faculty and students at Simmons have joined to create the Mary Eliza Project , transcribing voter registers to create a searchable database of the more than 50,000 women who registered to vote in Boston in the months following the Nineteenth...

• Boston
• Social Justice & Advocacy

Now on view at the Massachusetts State House, Ellen Lanyon's Notable Women of Boston mural is an artwork with a fascinating and complicated history. In honor of Women's History Month, we tell the story of how this painting was created...

• Boston