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Professor of Nutrition and Director of the Didactic Program in Dietetics Teresa T. Fung, ScD, RDN has been recognized by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics for her outstanding research. She spoke with us about this honor, her current research...

• Awards and Honors
• Behavioral and Health Sciences
• Research

What is the Explore course? The Simmons Course is a part of the PLAN core curriculum. First year students take Simmons: Explore, which is an introduction to college life, study strategies, and on campus resources. Each year, the courses build...

• PLAN Core Curriculum

Professor Charlotte Powley is both a researcher and an advocate. Her work reveals the urgent need for free access to period products. Professor Powley spoke with us about her recent findings and what needs to be done to achieve menstrual equity.

• Social Justice & Advocacy

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...

• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
• Internships & Careers

Recently, Simmons hosted Homecoming 2022, from Friday, October 14 to Sunday, October 16, offering students, their families, and alumnae/i an opportunity to connect with each other, and with the Simmons community. Homecoming offered attendees a clear picture of Simmons, past...

• Community Engagement
• Traditions & Annual Events

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...

• Internships & Careers

The COVID-19 pandemic, among other issues, has created a shortage of Millennial and Generation Z nurses. Tanya Cohn, Associate Teaching Professor and Director of the DNP Program at Simmons School of Nursing, shares what can be done. While shortages in...

• Behavioral and Health Sciences

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.

• Internships & Careers
• Research

On October 26, Simmons celebrated Founder's Day. For this event, Simmons undergraduates are invited to participate in an essay contest. Contestants wrote about how their experience at Simmons realizes John Simmons' vision for educating what President Lynn Perry Wooten calls...

• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
• International Student
• LGBTQIA+
• Traditions & Annual Events

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.

• Internships & Careers