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  1. On the afternoon of June 7th, there are still masses of protestors in D.C. These photos were taken from six blocks north of Lafayette Square, looking down toward the White House. A Black Lives Matter banner has been added to the new fence blocking off Lafayette Square, and part of it is visible in this photo.

    Dr. Aaron Rosenthal and graduate student, Taylor Eubanks, discuss Rosenthal's book-length project "The State You See: How Government Visibility Creates Political Distrust and Racial Inequality," as well as his forthcoming article “Black Lives Matter: Disrupting the Duality.”

  2. Headshot of Katie Mansour

    The COVID-19 pandemic didn't stop Katie Mansour '21 from interning in a Boston Children's Hospital lab. Read more about her experience working during the pandemic and what skills she learned in addition to essential laboratory techniques.

  3. Assistant Professor Eric Poulin's great-grandfather Lester "Buster" Brown, bartending at Luchessi's Cafe in the 1940s.

    After working at a neighborhood bar for nearly 20 years, Assistant Professor Eric Poulin is combining his current professional work with local barroom culture. In his latest research project, Poulin gives voice to the history made in these integral spaces.

  4. Simmons University Main College Building's cupola with the Boston city skyline in the background

    Simmons University faculty member, Dr. Cherie Lynn Ramirez, is the senior author of a paper published in The Lancet’s EClinicalMedicine journal outlining the urgent need for universal, frequent rapid COVID-19 testing to promote greater equity.

  5. Dawna Thomas speaking at a Simmons event

    Meet Dawna Thomas, Professor and Chair of the Sociology Department! Find out why she dedicates her research to her Cape Verdean and African American cultural roots, and learn more about the new Department of Critical Race, Gender, and Cultural Studies.

  6. Simmons University Main College Building's cupola with the Boston city skyline in the background

    Assistant Professor John Young to lead project to advance knowledge about limb generation processes in frogs.

  7. Stethoscopes hanging on rack

    #DocsOnCall intern, Selma Chamime ’23, tells us about working with the initiative and the massive impact it has made on combatting pandemic-related misinformation.

  8. Headshot of Ismah Ahmed

    We caught up with data science and analytics major, Ismah Ahmed '22, about her COVID-19 project and online learning during a pandemic.