Last December, Professor Afaa Michael Weaver of the English Department was awarded the May Sarton Award by the New England Poetry Club. The award is "given intermittently to a poet whose work is an inspiration to other poets," as the NEPC Web site describes. (0) comments
Wrinkles folded and etched into dried out, lax skin, brown spots that cannot be covered up by make-up. No one wants to look older than they are. In fact, there is a lot of emphasis on looking younger, concealing age, but if you are one of the 30 million individuals who use indoor tanning facilities in the United States every year, healthy young-looking skin will be very difficult to maintain. (0) comments
Six Simmons students are now distinguished as the newest members of the National Mathematics Honor Society, Pi Mu Epsilon. As they received their distinction on Dec. 3, Simmons College became the eighth member of the Massachusetts Theta Chapter. Seniors Ananya Dave, Nicole Gallant, Sarah Faulkner, and Sarah Wetherbee, along with juniors Gabrielle Rossetti and Whitney Andrews, each received the honor from math professors Donna Beers and David Browder and the past President of Pi Mu Epsilon (PME) Joan Weiss. (0) comments
Although it raises a striking and familiar connection to motocross, the term Kawasaki usually draws a confused faced when associated with medicine. Kawasaki's disease, though a foreign ailment to many, has an immense impact on the 2,000-4,200 diagnosed in the United States every year. (0) comments
A vast literature exists on epitaphs, those usually sobering statements one finds on tombstones. I said usually sobering, but not always. Death is one of those sort of taboo subjects that people are rather spooky about. We don't like to talk about it, especially of our own deaths, so we either avoid it or make jokes about it. (0) comments
What constitutes the label of Dix Scholar? For those of you do not know, one of the requirements of being a Dix scholar is being older than 24 years and in pursuit of higher education. Almost 25 percent of Simmons College students fall into this category. (0) comments