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Simmons Leads the Way in Women’s Sports Management

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Boston Business Journal Features Living and Learning Center

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Simmons University Celebrates the Class of 2026

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President Wooten Named Among Most Influential Bostonians

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Newsweek Names Simmons a Top Women-Centered College in MA

The 2026 Honorary Degree Recipients: Gregory Maguire ‘78MA, Dr. Anthony Estreet, and Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll

Simmons Names 2026 Commencement Speakers and Honorary Degree Recipients

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Six Students Selected for the 2026 Senior Scholar Award

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Women’s History Month: Legacy and Leadership

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  1. Tam Ha ’08MS
    Alumnae/i Feature

    SLIS Alumna Awardee Reflects on People-Centered Libraries

    Tam Ha ’08MS, recipient of the 2026 Alumnae/i Lifetime Achievement Award, is the academic librarian for VinUniversity (Hanoi, Vietnam). We spoke with her about the pivotal mentorship she received at Simmons and the rewards of a career in librarianship.

  2. STAR Scholar students and faculty 2026
    Student Story

    Students Bring Machine Learning to STEM Research

    This summer, the STARS (Summer Training in Academic Research at Simmons) 2026 Scholars program paired students and faculty across STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) disciplines to collaborate on research projects. The projects lasted six weeks, culminating in student poster presentations at the end of June. This year, the students were challenged to investigate ways that machine learning could be applied to faculty research.

  3. A close up of a person's hand touching an image on an anatomage table
    Ask Simmons

    What Are Anatomage Tables?

    Anatomage Tables are life-size virtual dissection tables that help you learn the structures and systems of the human body. Resembling an operating table, each is a large interactive touchscreen using 3D visualization that displays fully segmented models from real human cadavers.

  4. Sperm whales photograph by Gabriel Barathieu, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons and Creative Commons
    Faculty Spotlight

    Ifill School Professor Receives NEH Grant

    Professor Renée Bergland of the Department of Literature and Writing at The Gwen Ifill School for Media, Humanities, and Social Sciences has received a public scholar grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Bergland’s book project, Moby-Dick: The...

  5. Alumnae/i Award Winners pose with President Wooten at the 2026 Reunion
    Alumnae/i Feature

    Five Receive Alumnae/i Awards at Reunion 2026

    At Reunion 2026, the Alumnae/i Association Executive Board (AAEB) honored five alumnae/i for their career achievements and service to Simmons and the larger community. Here is a glimpse of these amazing alumnae/i and what Simmons means to them.

  6. Ludlow Coffee Company owners Steph DeFina, Kayla Gates, & Matt Gates
    Alumnae/i Feature

    The Community Benefit of a ‘Third Space’

    In addition to their full-time careers in the corporate world, Simmons School of Management graduates Kayla (Humel) Gates ’18 and Steph DeFina ’17 launched Ludlow Coffee Co., a coffee shop that offers community events, partnerships with other independent businesses, and fundraisers for local nonprofits.

  7. Beth Greenwood, catcher for Boston Hunters of the WPBL
    Student Story

    Making History in Women's Pro Baseball

    Beth Greenwood knows what it means to make history. This August, she'll take the field as a catcher for the Boston Hunters in the Women's Pro Baseball League (WPBL), helping launch the first US professional women's baseball league in more than 70 years.

  8. Danielle Dempsey ’24MS in front of a mobile library
    Alumnae/i Feature

    Researching Ireland’s Cross-Border Mobile Library Service

    While at Simmons, Danielle Dempsey ’24MS began an international librarianship research project on libraries in Ireland. Dempsey shared with us the experience of visiting Ireland and speaking to locals about the area’s fraught history.

  9. Haley Dover ’22 standing among equipment in a hospital room
    Alumnae/i Feature

    Alumna Enjoys Adventures in Travel Nursing

    Haley Dover ’22 shares how Simmons prepared her for her current work as a travel nurse.

  10. Valeria Caballero and other PT students using an anatomage table
    Campus & Community

    Physical Therapy Students Benefit from Anatomage Technology

    Simmons University has two Anatomage Tables on campus located in the Physical Therapy research lab in Lefavour Hall. This summer, students in the Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) program have alternated between lab time with the Tables and the cadaver lab at Harvard Medical School.