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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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    Alumnae/i Feature

    From Struggles to Strengths: Overcoming Mental Health Challenges and Helping Others to Do the Same with Socio-Ecological Research and Treatment

    Genevieve Peck Nowicki '20 studied Neurobiology at Simmons and is now pursuing her PhD in Counseling Psychology at Northeastern. She shares with us her approach to research and how Simmons prepared her for further studies. What made you choose to...

  2. Brian Jadro '21PhD
    Alumnae/i Feature

    Brian Jadro '21PhD on Using Behavior Analysis to Support Sustainability

    Jadro reflects on the incredible professors and great research opportunities he had at Simmons, saying “I've had great opportunities to extend the application of behavior analysis because of the professors and colleagues that I worked with at Simmons.”

  3. photo of Student Working At Computer
    Alumnae/i Feature

    An Alums Journey from Online Learning to Social Work

    Annie LaRochelle '20 shares her experience with getting a degree in social work through the online BSW program, including her first clinical experience.

  4. Steven D. Booth '09MS
    Alumnae/i Feature

    Steven D. Booth '09MS Expands the Possibilities of Archival Work

    Archivist and independent researcher Steven D. Booth '09MS was recently named a Fellow of the Society of American Archivists. Booth has worked in both traditional and unconventional archival settings, including his current role at the Getty Research Institute, and is...

  5. Tiffany Cooper ‘16MSW and Jerrica Raspberry Lawson ‘17MSW
    Alumnae/i Feature

    Simmons Alumni Uplift Marginalized Voices Through Culturally-Affirming Wellness Practice

    Jerrica Raspberry Lawson '17MSW, '26PhD and Tiffany Cooper '16MSW are the co-founders and CEO's of Kujichagulia (Kuji) Wellness Center , a virtual practice based in Massachusetts that provides individual counseling, clinical supervision, and consulting. Their services are client-centered, culturally-affirming and...

  6. Main College Building cupola with fall leaves
    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...

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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...