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The Passionate Leaders Project supports undergraduate students seeking to enrich their academic and professional interests by funding learning opportunities beyond the boundaries of the traditional classroom. Learn what the Spring 2021 cohort is up to!

• PLAN Core Curriculum
• Research

Assistant Professor Felipe Agudelo discusses his current project, “It’s Not How You Say It, It’s What You Say: Ambient Digital Racism and Racist Discourses on Twitter," which examines counter narrative tweets to Black Lives Matter hashtags.

• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
• Research

Recent Fulbright Award winner, Annie Chen '21, shares her experience applying for the scholarship and provides valuable advice for other Simmons students embarking on the Fulbright application process.

• Awards and Honors
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Simmons University is excited to announce that Annie Chen '21 has been selected for a one-year Master of Science (MSc) in Quantitative Genetics and Genome Analysis at the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom.

• Awards and Honors
• Behavioral and Health Sciences
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Working for a federal contractor, Ehrnstein conducts background investigations for security clearances. Learn how this former triple-major student utilizes the research skills she honed at Simmons, and the interesting places she's conducted interviews.

• Careers and Internships
• Behavioral and Health Sciences
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• Science and Technology

Adaliz Cruz ’20MS isn't interested in the traditional subjects of music research. Learn more about her journey into studying and amplifying historically repressed, censored, and criminalized music.

• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
• Careers and Internships
• Research

Julia Hart '21 is a keynote speaker at the 2021 Undergraduate Symposium! Learn more about her project, "Engineering a Bi-functional Heterostructure for Enhanced and Selective CO2 Adsorption/Reduction Under Visible Light Irradiation."

• Leadership
• Behavioral and Health Sciences
• Research

Halley Jeremie '21 was selected to present at the 2021 Undergraduate Symposium! Learn more about her project, "The Futility of Respectability Politics in Combating Stereotypes of Black Women."

• Awards and Honors
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Irene Nguyen '21 was selected to present at the 2021 Undergraduate Symposium! Learn more about her project, "DMD-10 is dispensable for the initial development of amphid sensory neurons and their survival in mature C. elegans."

• Behavioral and Health Sciences
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Cara MacKenzie '21 is a keynote speaker at the 2021 Undergraduate Symposium! Learn more about their project, "The Trauma of Irish Womanhood: An Examination of the Masculine Nation State in Literature and History."

• Awards and Honors
• Research