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  1. A group on stage during the 2024 Boston Globe - Horn Book Awards Ceremony
    Campus & Community

    Simmons Linked to 2024 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards

    The 2024 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards Ceremony was held on November 24 at the Boston Public Library, where Cathryn Mercier, Professor and Graduate Program Director of Children's Literature, reflected on her role as a judge.

  2. A seal identifying Simmons as an ALLIN Most Engaged Campus for College Student Voting
    Campus & Community

    Simmons University Recognized as a Most Engaged Campus for College Student Voting

    Simmons is one of 471 colleges and universities recognized by the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge for outstanding efforts to increase nonpartisan student voter participation in the 2024 election.

  3. Susan Perron ’18 in front of the Shiprock known as the winged rock in Navajo
    Alumnae/i Feature

    Simmons Nursing and Dix Scholar Alum Offers Palliative Care to Navajo Nation

    Susan Perron ’18 received a DAISY award for her work as a palliative nurse at the Northern Navajo Medical Center. Perron reflects on the award and her work for the Indigenous community.

  4. Professor Johnnie Hamilton-Mason delivering a public lecture at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa
    Faculty Spotlight

    Professor Visits University of Johannesburg as Fulbright Specialist

    Professor Johnnie Hamilton-Mason received a Fulbright Specialist Award this year. Recipients of the Fulbright Specialist awards are "selected on the basis of academic and professional achievement, demonstrated leadership in their field, and their potential to foster long-term cooperation between institutions in the U.S. and abroad."

  5. Simmons University Main College Building
    Campus & Community

    Contextualizing Simmons’ Top Performance in Social Mobility

    As recent college rankings suggest, Simmons University is a catalyst for social mobility, especially for first-generation students and students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds.

  6. Logo for NACADA - The global community for academic advising
    Announcement

    Director of Undergraduate Advising Receives Award from National Academic Advising Association

    “In college, I was one of those people who was involved in everything, and I liked helping everybody. . . . So when I realized that I could support students for a living, I was very excited,” recalls Cindy Firestein...

  7. A small child eating a piece of toast.
    Alumnae/i Feature

    Nutrition Alum Receives Award for Article

    Jennifer Lerman ’09, who was a Dix Scholar and studied Nutrition and Dietetics at Simmons, received the 39th annual Huddleson Award for the article, “Evaluation of the Healthy Eating Index-Toddlers-2020” which was featured in the Journal of the Academy of...

  8. Simmons University Main College Building in the fall
    Announcement

    Simmons Named a Top 100 Women-Led Business in Massachusetts

    The Women’s Edge, a nonprofit organization that supports female business leaders, together with its partner The Boston Globe, has announced that Simmons University was named one of the 24th annual Top 100 Women-Led Businesses in Massachusetts.

  9. Recipients of the 2024 Faculty Awards, along with President Wooten, Provost Cosner and Associate Provost Doherty.
    Faculty Spotlight

    2024 Simmons Faculty Awards Celebrates Stellar Researchers and Educators

    Simmons faculty from various disciplines received awards in undergraduate and graduate teaching, research, service, and a commitment to DEI at the 2024 Faculty Awards.

  10. Attendees and awardees at Boston and Massachusetts Campus Voting Summit, Harvard University, September 21, 2024.
    Announcement

    Simmons Recognized for Excellence in Student Voter Registration and Turnout

    ALL IN Awards Day honored Simmons for excellence in nonpartisan student voter engagement and campus turnout in the 2022 Midterm Elections. Specifically, Simmons received the award for 2022 Boston Votes Highest Voting Rate: Four-Year Institution. Members of the Simmons community received in-person recognition at the Boston and Massachusetts Campus Voting Summit, held at Harvard University.