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Monessa Cummins, of the Department of Classics, has received a national prize for her excellence in teaching and her dedication to serving as an expert, adviser, and mentor to students.

On March 7, 2019, the College learned that an unauthorized person accessed the system that houses prospective student and applicant information. A call center is being established for individuals who may have been affected by this incident.

Grinnell College's Board of Trustees has appointed a Board Task Force on Student Financial Support and Success.

The Young, Gifted, and Black Gospel Choir will travel to Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Ohio during the choir’s annual spring concert tour, performing two free concerts open to the public – one on Sunday, March 17, in Forestville, Maryland, and the second on Monday, March 18, in Washington, D.C.

Euphor will play at a Contra Dance at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 8, in the Grinnell Arts Center. On Saturday, March 9, they will present a workshop from 1-3 p.m. in the Bucksbaum Center for the Arts, followed by a concert at 7:30 p.m. in Herrick Chapel

Ken Adler, professor of history and Milton H. Wilson Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University, will give a Scholars’ Convocation Lecture at 11 a.m. Thursday, March 14, in Room 101 of the Joe Rosenfield ’25 Center.

March 12-13, 2019, Sunny Yudkoff will present on the role played by tuberculosis in the life and writing of the Hebrew modernist David Vogel and also participate in an informal conversation, Jewish Studies Today, with students.

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Johnson's presentation, "The Beekeeper: Performing Southern Black Women who Love Women" will be held in the Humanities and Social Studies Center, Room S3325.