supports artists at a critical time when many are deciding whether to pursue the arts as a career. The award validates, and helps finance, that life-defining choice.
VSA arts sent more than 20,000 calls for entry to high schools and colleges around the country, inviting submissions that illustrated the theme "Driven." Participants were asked to consider the motivations behind their work—what moves them to create. The call also encouraged artists to contemplate the relationship between life, art, and disability. Selected from 204 submissions, these 15 finalists were awarded a total of $60,000 generously provided by Volkswagen of America, Inc.

Gallery, Chicago, 2004, 2005, in a traveling group show sponsored by The Prairie Enthusiasts and the Wisconsin Humanities Council, Wisconsin and Illinois, 2006 and in a solo show at the Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge, Iowa, 2007. Gallery hours are 8-10 M-F, 10-10 S-S.

America's clash of cultures and frequent bouts of racism. Many of his works impose on the "victims" the very stereotypes he wants to destroy. The exhibition is a chronological review of 60 paintings, prints, found art sculpture, and performance photographs documenting Shimomura's prolific career. Shimomura's deft, wry sense of humor and remarkable skill as an artist make a stunning visual presentation. The exhibit continues through October 26, and is sponsored by ExhibitsUSA, a national division of Mid-America Arts Alliance, and The National Endowment for the Arts.

Howl. We also examine his work as a musician and a political activist who, amoung other causes, worked to end the Vietnam War.

Gallery, Chicago, 2004, 2005, in a traveling group show sponsored by The Prairie Enthusiasts and the Wisconsin Humanities Council, Wisconsin and Illinois, 2006 and in a solo show at the Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge, Iowa, 2007. Gallery hours are 8-10 M-F, 10-10 S-S.

supports artists at a critical time when many are deciding whether to pursue the arts as a career. The award validates, and helps finance, that life-defining choice.
VSA arts sent more than 20,000 calls for entry to high schools and colleges around the country, inviting submissions that illustrated the theme "Driven." Participants were asked to consider the motivations behind their work—what moves them to create. The call also encouraged artists to contemplate the relationship between life, art, and disability. Selected from 204 submissions, these 15 finalists were awarded a total of $60,000 generously provided by Volkswagen of America, Inc.

America's clash of cultures and frequent bouts of racism. Many of his works impose on the "victims" the very stereotypes he wants to destroy. The exhibition is a chronological review of 60 paintings, prints, found art sculpture, and performance photographs documenting Shimomura's prolific career. Shimomura's deft, wry sense of humor and remarkable skill as an artist make a stunning visual presentation. The exhibit continues through October 26, and is sponsored by ExhibitsUSA, a national division of Mid-America Arts Alliance, and The National Endowment for the Arts.

views through the telescope. The observatory is located at the north end of the campus. Individuals or organizations can receive e-mail notification of future open houses by sending a request to cadmus@grinnell.edu.

Gallery, Chicago, 2004, 2005, in a traveling group show sponsored by The Prairie Enthusiasts and the Wisconsin Humanities Council, Wisconsin and Illinois, 2006 and in a solo show at the Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge, Iowa, 2007. Gallery hours are 8-10 M-F, 10-10 S-S.

supports artists at a critical time when many are deciding whether to pursue the arts as a career. The award validates, and helps finance, that life-defining choice.
VSA arts sent more than 20,000 calls for entry to high schools and colleges around the country, inviting submissions that illustrated the theme "Driven." Participants were asked to consider the motivations behind their work—what moves them to create. The call also encouraged artists to contemplate the relationship between life, art, and disability. Selected from 204 submissions, these 15 finalists were awarded a total of $60,000 generously provided by Volkswagen of America, Inc.

America's clash of cultures and frequent bouts of racism. Many of his works impose on the "victims" the very stereotypes he wants to destroy. The exhibition is a chronological review of 60 paintings, prints, found art sculpture, and performance photographs documenting Shimomura's prolific career. Shimomura's deft, wry sense of humor and remarkable skill as an artist make a stunning visual presentation. The exhibit continues through October 26, and is sponsored by ExhibitsUSA, a national division of Mid-America Arts Alliance, and The National Endowment for the Arts.

to join Hannah to express their ideas, reactions, thoughts about living with a disability or how issues of disability are currently being treated on our campus. Refreshments will be served.
"I draw parallels with visual thinking using art projects as exploration tools. Whenever a task becomes too difficult, I take a step back, try a new perspective, break it down into new pieces, and rearrange them until it makes more sense to me." Hannah Zurko '09

Gallery, Chicago, 2004, 2005, in a traveling group show sponsored by The Prairie Enthusiasts and the Wisconsin Humanities Council, Wisconsin and Illinois, 2006 and in a solo show at the Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge, Iowa, 2007. Gallery hours are 8-10 M-F, 10-10 S-S.

supports artists at a critical time when many are deciding whether to pursue the arts as a career. The award validates, and helps finance, that life-defining choice.
VSA arts sent more than 20,000 calls for entry to high schools and colleges around the country, inviting submissions that illustrated the theme "Driven." Participants were asked to consider the motivations behind their work—what moves them to create. The call also encouraged artists to contemplate the relationship between life, art, and disability. Selected from 204 submissions, these 15 finalists were awarded a total of $60,000 generously provided by Volkswagen of America, Inc.

America's clash of cultures and frequent bouts of racism. Many of his works impose on the "victims" the very stereotypes he wants to destroy. The exhibition is a chronological review of 60 paintings, prints, found art sculpture, and performance photographs documenting Shimomura's prolific career. Shimomura's deft, wry sense of humor and remarkable skill as an artist make a stunning visual presentation. The exhibit continues through October 26, and is sponsored by ExhibitsUSA, a national division of Mid-America Arts Alliance, and The National Endowment for the Arts.

campus worship experience.
Reflection by: Katie Snipes, Lilly Intern for Religious Life.

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others. Panelists will include Henry Reitz, Associate Professor of Religious Studies; Jose Gonzalez '11; Deanna Shorb, Dean of Religious Life; and Elena Bernal, Special Assistant to the President for Diversity & Achievement, moderated by Lesley Wright, Director, Faulconer Gallery.
The exhibit, which continues through October 26, features the work of Roger Shimomura, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Kansas, combines Japanese woodblock prints, Pop Art styles, and comic book imagery in order to illustrate America's clash of cultures and frequent bouts of racism. Many of his works impose on the "victims" the very stereotypes he wants to destroy.

and other publications. He is a 1981 graduate of Grinnell College and has studied with Lee Abbott, Adam Haslett, and Thomas Averill.

Gallery, Chicago, 2004, 2005, in a traveling group show sponsored by The Prairie Enthusiasts and the Wisconsin Humanities Council, Wisconsin and Illinois, 2006 and in a solo show at the Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge, Iowa, 2007. Gallery hours are 8-10 M-F, 10-10 S-S.

supports artists at a critical time when many are deciding whether to pursue the arts as a career. The award validates, and helps finance, that life-defining choice.
VSA arts sent more than 20,000 calls for entry to high schools and colleges around the country, inviting submissions that illustrated the theme "Driven." Participants were asked to consider the motivations behind their work—what moves them to create. The call also encouraged artists to contemplate the relationship between life, art, and disability. Selected from 204 submissions, these 15 finalists were awarded a total of $60,000 generously provided by Volkswagen of America, Inc.

America's clash of cultures and frequent bouts of racism. Many of his works impose on the "victims" the very stereotypes he wants to destroy. The exhibition is a chronological review of 60 paintings, prints, found art sculpture, and performance photographs documenting Shimomura's prolific career. Shimomura's deft, wry sense of humor and remarkable skill as an artist make a stunning visual presentation. The exhibit continues through October 26, and is sponsored by ExhibitsUSA, a national division of Mid-America Arts Alliance, and The National Endowment for the Arts.

Autism," which chronicles the social history and increased prevalence of the developmental disability that also affects his daughter. In 2005, he launched the first-ever prevalence study of autism in Korea with an interdisciplinary team of researchers, whose findings will be reported next year.
Grinker, who is professor of anthropology and human sciences at The George Washington University, has also published books and articles on topics such as ethnic conflict, the intellectual history of African studies, and north-south Korean relations from his travels to the Congo, South Korea, Swaziland, South Africa, and India.
"Unstrange Minds" was selected by Library Journal as one of the 30 best books of 2007 and was recognized by the National Alliance on Mental Illness as the outstanding literary contribution to better understand mental illness.
Grinker’s lecture is part of Grinnell’s Scholar’s Convocation series.

The hour will be hosted by
Hanna L. Armstrong from the OISA.
Coffee hour is offered with participation of
Reading and Writing Laboratories
Topics will vary weekly
Contact: Lukowicz@Grinnell.edu x3702
Office of International Student Affairs

students and faculty in large-scale data-intensive application design and cluster computing, which is employed by organizations such as Yahoo!, Google,
Facebook, last.fm, The New York Times, and Krugle. After a short presentation of the MapReduce paradigm, he will demonstrate how Apache Hadoop and Apache Pig, running on MathLAN commodity workstations, can solve within minutes some large example problems, such as finding the frequencies of words and letters in the entire Wikipedia corpus (4GB of plain text).
Refreshments will be served at 4:15 p.m. in the Computer Science Commons (Science 3817).

tricky series, which will be solved!
Refreshments served at 4:15 p.m. in Science 2503, open study area across from Science 2517. All those interested are welcome to attend!

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and two books of stories. In 2009 he will publish his first collection of nonfiction, Sea God's Herb and Books and Rough Business, a translation of Tullio Pironti's memoir. His fiction has appeared in the Paris Review, and his non-fiction, including literary criticism, has appeared in the New York Times and elsewhere. As a visiting writer, Domini has taught at Harvard, Northwestern, and Lewis & Clark, among others. His MFA is from Johns Hopkins and his doctorate from Union Institute & University. Domini has recently won a Major Artist grant from the Iowa Arts Council. For more information go to

Gallery, Chicago, 2004, 2005, in a traveling group show sponsored by The Prairie Enthusiasts and the Wisconsin Humanities Council, Wisconsin and Illinois, 2006 and in a solo show at the Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge, Iowa, 2007. Gallery hours are 8-10 M-F, 10-10 S-S.

supports artists at a critical time when many are deciding whether to pursue the arts as a career. The award validates, and helps finance, that life-defining choice.
VSA arts sent more than 20,000 calls for entry to high schools and colleges around the country, inviting submissions that illustrated the theme "Driven." Participants were asked to consider the motivations behind their work—what moves them to create. The call also encouraged artists to contemplate the relationship between life, art, and disability. Selected from 204 submissions, these 15 finalists were awarded a total of $60,000 generously provided by Volkswagen of America, Inc.

America's clash of cultures and frequent bouts of racism. Many of his works impose on the "victims" the very stereotypes he wants to destroy. The exhibition is a chronological review of 60 paintings, prints, found art sculpture, and performance photographs documenting Shimomura's prolific career. Shimomura's deft, wry sense of humor and remarkable skill as an artist make a stunning visual presentation. The exhibit continues through October 26, and is sponsored by ExhibitsUSA, a national division of Mid-America Arts Alliance, and The National Endowment for the Arts.

one which can be inscribed in a circle. Historical background will be given, and then a number of proofs and extensions will be given.
All those interested please attend! Pizza will be served.

true interdisciplinarity and to encourage broad participation among the faculty in the Center's activities, we welcome faculty members from all three divisions to attend.
One of the chief functions of the Interest Group is to elect the Center for the Humanities Advisory Board. Please consider serving on the Advisory Board as we continue to plan events related to this year's theme, Visual Culture, and next year's theme, Space and Place.
If you are unable to attend this meeting, but are nonetheless interested in the Center, please feel free to contact the Director, Dan Reynolds (reynolds@grinnell.edu), with any concerns or suggestions.
Coffee, cheese and crackers, and fruit will be served.

invited to attend. If you would like to be included on the e-mail list for this group, send a message to cadmus@grinnell.edu.

profiling Mirikitani in the months leading u to 9/11, after which she invited him into her apartment. Together they confront his painful past in hopes of shedding new light on a dark present. Cameo performance by Roger Shimomura. "A fascinating, absorbing and instructive tale full of delayed revelations and subtle pleasures... the story doesn't feel assembled, it feels like it's merely happening." (Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader). Country: Japan. Language: Japanese/English. 74 minutes. Sponsored by the Cultural Film Committee and the Faulconer Gallery.

supports artists at a critical time when many are deciding whether to pursue the arts as a career. The award validates, and helps finance, that life-defining choice.
VSA arts sent more than 20,000 calls for entry to high schools and colleges around the country, inviting submissions that illustrated the theme "Driven." Participants were asked to consider the motivations behind their work—what moves them to create. The call also encouraged artists to contemplate the relationship between life, art, and disability. Selected from 204 submissions, these 15 finalists were awarded a total of $60,000 generously provided by Volkswagen of America, Inc.

America's clash of cultures and frequent bouts of racism. Many of his works impose on the "victims" the very stereotypes he wants to destroy. The exhibition is a chronological review of 60 paintings, prints, found art sculpture, and performance photographs documenting Shimomura's prolific career. Shimomura's deft, wry sense of humor and remarkable skill as an artist make a stunning visual presentation. The exhibit continues through October 26, and is sponsored by ExhibitsUSA, a national division of Mid-America Arts Alliance, and The National Endowment for the Arts.

Gallery, Chicago, 2004, 2005, in a traveling group show sponsored by The Prairie Enthusiasts and the Wisconsin Humanities Council, Wisconsin and Illinois, 2006 and in a solo show at the Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge, Iowa, 2007. Gallery hours are 8-10 M-F, 10-10 S-S.

funds for Grinnell's new Aquatic Center. Young artists of all ages and volunteers are welcome. All materials and refreshments provided! Questions? Please contact Tilly Woodward @ 269-4663 or woodward@grinnell.edu

funds for Grinnell's new Aquatic Center. Young artists of all ages and volunteers are welcome. All materials and refreshments provided! Questions? Please contact Tilly Woodward @ 269-4663 or woodward@grinnell.edu

profiling Mirikitani in the months leading u to 9/11, after which she invited him into her apartment. Together they confront his painful past in hopes of shedding new light on a dark present. Cameo performance by Roger Shimomura. "A fascinating, absorbing and instructive tale full of delayed revelations and subtle pleasures... the story doesn't feel assembled, it feels like it's merely happening." (Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader). Country: Japan. Language: Japanese/English. 74 minutes. Sponsored by the Cultural Film Committee and the Faulconer Gallery.