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New Master’s Degree Focuses on Business of Women’s Sports

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Boston Globe Highlights Women’s Sports Management at Simmons

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Simmons Named a Top 100 Women-Led Business

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Simmons Celebrates 125 Years

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Simmons University Celebrates the Class of 2025

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Unsung Contributions to the History of Nursing

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Cultivating Diverse Perspectives, in Boston and Abroad

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Sexual Health Research, Travel, and Community Involvement

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    Alumnae/i Feature

    Elissa Gershowitz '00MA, Editor in Chief of The Horn Book, Offers Titles to Add to Your Reading List

    This October, Elissa Gershowitz '00MA was officially named Editor in Chief of The Horn Book, Inc. , publisher of a review journal of children's and young adult literature. We caught up with her about her role at the Horn Book...

  2. Elena Palladino ’07
    Alumnae/i Feature

    Elena Palladino ’07 Publishes Revelatory Book on Local History

    In her new book, Lost Towns of the Swift River Valley: Drowned by the Quabbin (Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2022), Elena Palladino tells the story of a community that was displaced to make room for a new reservoir. In doing so, she conveys what was lost in the name of progress.

  3. Jane Carney '17
    Alumnae/i Feature

    Jane Carney ’17 Supports Living Artists as Art Consultant at Boston Art, Inc.

    Arts Administration major Jane Carney '17 on her pivot from auctioning "old master's" art at Christie's New York to selling the work of living artists at Boston Art, Inc.

  4. Photo of Angela Kunkel '00
    Alumnae/i Feature

    Angela Kunkel '00 on Writing for Curious Kids

    Angela Kunkel '00 shares the inspiration behind her picture books, and the types of stories that pique her own curiosity.

  5. Marsha Maurer ’18DNP
    Alumnae/i Feature

    Marsha Maurer '18DNP Selected as Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing

    Dr. Marsha Maurer, Senior Vice President for Patient Services and the Chief Nursing Officer at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, was recently chosen as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. We spoke with her about receiving this honor...

  6. Dr. Brenda Mitchell-Powell '75 '08MS '15PhD
    Alumnae/i Feature

    Dr. Brenda Mitchell-Powell '75 '08MS '15PhD Publishes Breakthrough Book on Civil Rights History

    In her new book, Public in Name Only: The 1939 Alexandria Sit-In Demonstration (University of Massachusetts Press), SLIS alumna Dr. Brenda Mitchell-Powell uncovers a little-known library demonstration which, she argues, was an important moment in civil rights history. What is...

  7. Mary Grahame Hunter '20MS
    Alumnae/i Feature

    Mary Grahame Hunter ’20MS Advocates for Intellectual Freedom for Youth in Libraries

    Mary Grahame Hunter '20MS is a Youth Services Librarian at the Ferndale Area District Library in Ferndale, Michigan. She also serves on the Michigan Library Association's Intellectual Freedom Task Force, where they have a coalition called MI Right to Read...

  8. Richelle Smith ’21MSW
    Alumnae/i Feature

    Richelle Smith '21MSW Urban Leadership Certificate Uses Social Work Skills as Director of METCO at Arlington Public Schools

    What led you to Simmons for your Master's in Social Work? My last position was in homeless services, and I was working alongside program social workers. Clients would be inclined to speak with me, and I'm great with people and...

  9. Molly Foye ’23MS poses with sheep outdoors at a farm
    Student Story

    Molly Foye ’23MS Shares Her Passion for Material Culture and Archives

    SLIS graduate student Molly Foye developed an interest in material culture during her undergraduate education. Currently, Foye holds a position on a farm in New Hampshire that enables her to expand the possibilities of archival work and librarianship. Why did...

  10. TuQuyen Tran Vo ’22 posing with her Simmons diploma
    Alumnae/i Feature

    A Day in the Life of a Nurse at Mass General Hospital

    An interview with TuQuyen Tran Vo ’22 Describe your typical workday. For a typical day shift, I leave at 5:30 am. I take the T or a blue bike, depending on the weather. I report to work at 6:30 am...