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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

Ava Dugan ’27

Unsung Contributions to the History of Nursing

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Cultivating Diverse Perspectives, in Boston and Abroad

Angie O’Connor ’25

Sexual Health Research, Travel, and Community Involvement

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  1. Headshot of Kristie Thomas
    Faculty Spotlight

    Professor Kristie Thomas Pairs Social Work With Action

    Professor Thomas tells us how Simmons is commemorating Domestic Violence Awareness Month. What inspired you to pursue your academic discipline? I've been committed to anti-violence work for as long as I can remember. I chose to pursue an MSW and...

  2. Headshot of Daren Graves
    Faculty Spotlight

    Challenging Racial Inequity Through Critical Consciousness

    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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    Alumnae/i Feature

    Brenda Sanya '11MA Researches Citizenship, Immigration, and Education

    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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    Faculty Spotlight

    The Evolution of Information Behavior Research: The Dynamics of Intellectual Structure

    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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    Faculty Spotlight

    Professor Ortega On The History Graduate Program

    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...

  6. Business students working together around a table.
    Faculty Spotlight

    Creating Case Studies of Women in Business

    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...

  7. Amar, Neighborhood Market. By Edith Bresler.
    Faculty Spotlight

    We Sold a Winner

    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...

  8. Feet standing on a bathroom scale.
    Faculty Spotlight

    Risk Factors for Excessive Gestational Weight Gain

    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...

  9. Students using computers.
    Faculty Spotlight

    The Use of Google Scholar and Academic Library Websites Among Academics

    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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    Faculty Spotlight

    Mobile News Information Behavior: An Exploratory Diary Study

    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...