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Oksana Hradyska ’12 recently celebrated the 10th anniversary of her successful non-profit, Sitters for Scholars. Hradyska founded the organization as a free babysitting service in 2014, in response to the lack of affordable and reliable childcare for parents attending college. The services were later expanded for low-income, single-parent families.

• Entrepreneurship

In their recently published book, Public Relations Planning, Professor Edward Vieira, Jr. and Associate Professor Yulong Li offer a comprehensive guide to strategic communication, replete with rich insights and academic research. We spoke with them about their approach to PR, advances in the field, and how Simmons offers students robust career training.

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Sarah Rose Cavanagh, Senior Associate Director for Teaching and Learning in the Center for Faculty Excellence, was recently awarded a four-year $496K grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The goal of the funded project is to tackle high attrition rates in biology education at the undergraduate level by improving assessment and feedback practices.

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Simmons’ Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (ODEI) hosted “Islamophobia in the United States: Understanding Past and Present Anti-Muslim Discrimination,” a virtual lecture by Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of Research for the Institute of Social Policy and Understanding Saher Selod. This talk chronicled the history of anti-Muslim racism and demonstrated how 9/11 instituted a new era of the racialization of Muslims.

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• Social Justice & Advocacy

The Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion hosted a webinar with Project Shema, entitled “Understanding Antisemitism in the Current Political Climate.” The webinar defined antisemitism, contextualized Jewish identity, and suggested how participants may empathize with the Jewish community.

• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Simmons University’s School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) welcomes three new faculty members this Fall, with expertise in archives management, school librarianship, and public librarianship for children and teens.

• University Leadership and Structure

The new faculty members have joined the Behavior Analysis, Biology, Physical Therapy, Psychology, and Public Health programs.

• University Leadership and Structure

Joanna Almeida, professor and Eva Whiting White Endowed Chair at Simmons School of Social Work, was quoted in a MedicalXpress article about her new study of factors impacting preterm birth in the Commonwealth.

• Research

In honor of the 50th anniversary of the Children’s Literature Program at Simmons, we caught up with Ally Russell ’15MFA about her role of Marketing Manager at independent publisher Nosy Crow, and the release of her debut novel.

• Careers and Internships

Simmons University School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) has relocated the SLIS West program — a part-time master of science in Library and Information Science degree program in Western Massachusetts — from Mount Holyoke College to the campus of Greenfield Community College (GCC), as of Fall 2024.

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