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Professor Daren Graves researches how students are recognizing and navigating racial inequity, power and privilege. What made you make the move to teach at Simmons? I love to teach, and I knew Simmons to be an institution that valued teaching...

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Brenda’s scholarly work and teaching benefit from the interdisciplinary approaches she learned in the GCS program. What is the focus of your work? As a scholar of citizenship, immigration, and education, my research is situated at the intersection of critical...

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Investigating the scholarly discourse of Information Behavior (IB) research. Professors Tang and Ni from the College of Organizational, Computational, and Information Sciences have been working on a research project investigating the scholarly discourse of IB research, with a focus on...

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Meet Professor Steve Ortega, Associate Professor of History! What do you teach in the graduate program at Simmons? I teach three graduate classes: 9/11 Narratives, Encounters: Contact, Connections and Conflict, and Collective Memory. The first two classes look to understand...

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School of Business professors contribute to the Case Research Journal. College of Organizational, Computational, and Information Sciences and School of Business Professor of Practice Cynthia Ingols was guest editor for a special issue of Case Research Journal. The issue, focused...

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Professor Edie Bresler focuses on small family-run convenience stores and marketplaces where winning jackpot tickets are sold. Since 2009 Professor Bresler has been looking at the American landscape through the lens of state-run lotteries. By focusing on small family-run convenience...

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Risk factors for excessive gestational weight gain among low income women receiving WIC services. This project is a collaboration between Simmons University and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and includes nine years of longitudinal data representing a large proportion...

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Examining the use and efficacy of Google Scholar and academic library websites in finding scholarly information resources. This study aims to investigate and compare the use of Google Scholar and academic library websites among academics including undergraduate students, graduate students...

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Over the summer of 2016, Professors Rong Tang and Kyong Eun Oh from the College of Organizational, Computational, and Information Sciences, together with their research assistant Alison Fisher, conducted data collection of an online diary research on mobile news behavior...

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Assistant Professor Kyong Eun Oh expresses the need to explore how people organize their personal information in everyday life. People organize their information in certain ways in their daily lives. Despite its importance and close relationship with our lives, little...

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