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Campus & CommunityThis year’s Fall Community Read, organized by the Division of Student Engagement, Success, and Diversity, featured novelist and Yale Ph.D. student R.F. Kuang and her most recent book, Yellowface. The award-winning and #1 New York Times bestselling author discussed the importance of authorial voice, literary experimentation, and the craft of writing.
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Alumnae/i FeatureRodney Fierce ’12MA, a Humanities Teacher at Sonoma Academy, shares what led him to study children’s literature, his work at the Academy, and his recent experience on the Horn Book Awards Committee.
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Student StoryGraduate student Sage Loyema Innerarity ‘25MS, a citizen of the Ione Band of Miwok Indians of California, is the 2024 recipient of the Mosaic Scholarship given by the Society of American Archivists.
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Campus & CommunitySince 1988, the United States has celebrated National Coming Out Day (NCOD) annually on October 11. To honor NCOD, Dr. Michael LaSala, Dean of Simmons’ School of Social Work, recounts his own coming-out journey.
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Faculty SpotlightThe GSA — the nation’s largest interdisciplinary organization devoted to the field of aging — has named Michelle Putnam, Professor and Jennifer Eckert ’08 Chair of Simmons’ School of Social Work, as the next editor-in-chief of the journal Innovation in Aging.
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Alumnae/i FeatureAmy Thrall Flynn 95’MA, ’21MA, Senior Literary Agent of Aevitas Creative Management, has been named “Agent of the Month” (for October 2024) by Writing and Illustrating, a blog devoted to children’s literature authors and illustrators.
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Campus & CommunityIn honor of World Mental Health Day, we spoke to Beth Grampetro, Associate Dean and Chief Wellness Officer, about the diverse wellness resources available to all Simmons students.
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Faculty SpotlightProfessor and Director Val Leiter shares her recent research on the FDA’s role in marketing women’s health medical devices and her efforts to determine whether gender discrimination influences the oversight of medical devices for women.
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Alumnae/i FeatureStacy Whitman '05MA celebrates the first anniversary of her brick and mortar bookstore, Curious Cat Bookshop in Winsted, CT, with an article in the CT Insider.
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Eight of the ten recent Simmons Accounting graduates have accepted offers at one of these multi-billion dollar firms, which include PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Ernst & Young (EY), Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler (KPMG), and Deloitte.