About Grinnell
Posted by: Catherine Rod
July 6, 2012 - 11:07am
by Sam Dunnington, '14
I discovered this photo in the Concerned Black Students archives, and wanted to post it for a couple of reasons. This was taken during a CBS versus faculty basketball game, held as a benefit for the recently established King Scholarship, and the uniforms these guys are suited up in are wonderful. They wouldn't be out of place at some of the wilder Harris parties. Additionally, I was surprised at the caption that accompanied the photo. Originally published in the September... Read More...
Posted by: Leonya Ivanov
July 5, 2012 - 11:23am
From the beginning, we have had a lot of talented students in support and development: Yasir Mehboob ‘03, Yaw Nti-Addae ‘04, Kabenla Armah '04, Jingsheng Wang '08, Mark Root-Whiley '09, Tianqi Zhang '11 and Doug Dobrzynski '13, to name the main ones. Not only do the students bring their talent and energy to the process, but they also give us live feedback about the site. They help us not to become stale, to keep our minds open, to never rest. Hopefully, working with us help our students... Read More...
Posted by: Leonya Ivanov
July 1, 2012 - 9:13am
Basically, it all started in 2001. Before then, Grinnell didn’t have a website. Well, it did have a web presence, but it was really a collection of unrelated web pages, maintained mostly in Dreamweaver. In 2001, we came up with a system to manage a more unified website, and give it some coherence. We didn’t know then that the type of system we have developed would be soon called “a content management system” (CMS), and that using various CMSs would soon become a de-facto standard in the web... Read More...
Posted by: Catherine Rod
June 27, 2012 - 4:36pm
by Sam Dunnington, '14
Anywhere I can eat mozzarella sticks until my head starts to hurt is a place I'm happy to be, but sometimes the Spencer Grille leaves me wanting for finer cuisine. I wasn't sure if there was ever a better alternative until I stumbled across the pictured menu, tucked away in the files regarding the Forum. The cover displays an eagle, printed in delicate copper, beckoning you towards the delicacies on offer at the Caffe del Foro. When the Forum opened in 1964, the goal was... Read More...
June 18, 2012 - 2:38am
Drupal automatically scales and crops image thumbnails. Often, this results in cut off faces. Now, you have greater control over what parts of the image appear in the image thumbnail. Learn how to control image thumbnails and see improved thumbnails on your image galleries today.
This feature currently only applies to image thumbnails on image galleries. See somewhere else on the site it should work? E-mail the URL to webguys@grinnell.edu Read More...
Posted by: Chris Jones
June 1, 2012 - 9:18am
Did you know that Grinnell College used to have horse stables? I didn't, either, until I found the Kelly Stables plaque (pictured right) in the Vault. Sometimes, in the course of processing material for special collections or the archives, we come across items like this that capture our attention, but for which we have little information. It is unclear whether this plaque ever hung in the stables, who made it, or the date it was made. In fact, we do not have a whole lot... Read More...
Posted by: Catherine Rod
May 10, 2012 - 2:21pm
By Helen Lewandowski '12
My first three years at Grinnell, I worked with a very special, very small part of the Special Collections and Archives -- the postcards collection. My task: scan, enter, and add metadata (cataloging information) for hundreds of the postcards from the Iowa Historic Postcard Collection. Although now I digitize a greater diversity of things as a student archivist, I still look back on the postcard collection fondly. Many of the postcards are from... Read More...
Posted by: Catherine Rod
April 5, 2012 - 9:24am
Happy Birthday Charles Dickens!
2012 is the 200th anniversary of the birth of the great English novelist, Charles Dickens. Characters such as Tiny Tim, Ebenezer Scrooge, Oliver Twist, Little Nell, Mr. Pickwick, Miss Havisham, and countless others have found immortality through his stories. Dickens’ works are still in print and have been made into films, television series, and musicals.
Dickens’ novels were originally published in monthly or weekly... Read More...
Posted by: Raynard S. Kington
September 11, 2011 - 11:35am
Alas, the ranking season is upon us once again. Colleges and universities across the country are ranked on everything from food to politics, from sustainability to hipster-ness, from rigor to partying. Newspapers, magazines, online postings, and blogs follow each release noting which colleges rank where and which has gone up or down to the delight or horror or, rarely, the indifference of those of us with vested interests — administrators, board members, students, alumni — across the nation and... Read More...
July 6, 2011 - 4:57am
Welcome to the History Department's new Blog page! As part of our attempt to keep the Grinnell Community informed about History-related developments, events, and achievements, the Department Web Site will now feature a Blog, to be updated at least monthly. Stay tuned for future posts, but for now enjoy the summer! Read More...
