September 26, 2012
Women Changing Lives: Perspectives on Gender, Politics & Social Change
Women Changing Lives: Perspectives on Gender, Politics & Social Change
A Week of Inspiring Community Dialogues with Woodrow Wilson Fellow Marjorie Margolies
October 22, 2012 - October 26, 2012
Read the schedule here.
Email Carol Bonner with any questions.
More information coming soon!
October 11, 2012
Simmons Undergraduate Research Experience Fellows - Deadline Extended To October 17
Proposal guidelines for the Simmons Undergraduate Research Experience Fellows (SURE) Program can be found here. Faculty can apply for a research fellow and/or to fund a student's participation in a conference. SURE Fellows conducting research or working on a creative project for a faculty member will receive an $1,800 stipend for the semester. Examples of possible projects include--developing a bibliography for research/aiding with a literature review, providing support for developing new courses, helping create an exhibit/display, working on video projects, and analyzing data
Students are also encouraged to apply to fund their own independent research/creative project and/or to attend a conference, but only with proof of a faculty sponsor. They can request up to $500 for each. The deadline for fall applications has been extended to October 17, 2012. Please submit applications to cas@simmons.edu. Please be sure to announce this in all of your classes.
I am very pleased that we are able to launch this program and look forward to the many ways we can continue to embrace undergraduate students' scholarship and creative projects.
--Dean Renée White
September 10, 2012
Janie Victoria Ward Recognized
The American Educational Studies Association has recognized Character and Moral Education: A Reader (Peter Lang, 2011) with a 2012 Critics Choice Book Award. Simmons Professor Janie Victoria Ward, Ed. D., is among the distinguished contributors.
Ward's article, "Navigating Inequities: A Morally Rooted Pedagogy of Intentional Mentoring with Black Children and other Youth of Color," lays out the theoretical foundation of her current work on intentional mentoring with children and youth.
As part of the anthology edited by Joseph L. DeVitis and Tianlong Yu, Ward has been recognized as making an outstanding contribution to scholarship in the field of Social Foundations of Education.
Janie Ward is the Chair of the Africana Studies Department. She is also the author of The Skin We're In: Teaching Our Teens To Be Emotionally Strong, Socially Smart and Spiritually Connected (Free Press, 2002).
May 1, 2012
Student Published
Shantyana Lledin, a Women's and Gender Studies student, was published in The Feminist Wire. Read it here.
March 9, 2012
News from the Department of Communications
Congratulations to the Communication Department, which received numerous national awards from the Intercollegiate Broadcasting System (IBS) Globalization on a Shoestring (Comm 269) may now officially be referred to as "The nationally award winning Globalization on a Shoestring". The Ghana broadcasts from Simmons was named "Most Innovative Programming in College Radio for 2012".
Simmons also named a National Finalist for "Best Live Music Event" (Katie Vosoonceios and Cristina Aiello for The Jon Harrington Band live in-studio) and for "Best Celebrity Interview (Katie Vasconcelos and Cristina Aiello for CK Our Way presents Alexz Johnson). We were awarded the "Platinum Microphone Award" for Excellence in Broadcasting. Only five other schools won this top award.
Simmons received an appreciation plaque from IBS for hosting the Boston Fall Regional conference each of the last four years.
March 9, 2012
Professor Afaa Weaver
Afaa Weaver--Baltimore native, Simmons English professor and Director of the Zora Neale Hurston Literary Center, was featured in Urbanite, a magazine in Baltimore:
He was also recently profiled by Marketing who created a wonderful feature video:
March 9, 2012
Press for the New England Philharmonic
The New England Philharmonic serves as the orchestra in residence at Simmons College and is sponsored by CAS. On March 3rd they performed Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem" in Boston at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross and on March 4th they performed in Providence at the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul. This work--for orchestra, choruses, and soloists--is an eloquent meditation on the sacrifices of war and the universal longing for peace. Collaborating in the performance were Chorus pro Musica, the Providence Singers, and the Boston Children's Chorus, with soloists Sarah Pelletier, Frank Kelley, and Sumner Thompson.
Both performances were reviewed very positively:
March 8, 2012
Welcome
Welcome to the Dean's Office new website. Please send us any suggestions you have on how to improve the website. Here is some recent news from the College of Arts and Sciences. We will update this section on a monthly basis.
