A two-story brown house surrounded by trees

Grinnell Student Spends Summer Steeped in New England History

Jun 27, 2025
History is a lively and fascinating endeavor for Maya Albanese, one of the summer fellows at Historic Deerfield in Deerfield, Massachusetts.
The Center for Careers, Life, and Service helps ensure internships reamin possible for students.

Opening Doors

May 27, 2025
Grinnell's internship funding unlocks life-changing opportunities for students worldwide.
Penny Bender Sebring and Charles Ashby Lewis

$1 Million Gift Gives CLS a Flexible Foundation for Student Support

May 18, 2025
The latest gift from Penny Bender Sebring ’64, H’15, a former Grinnell trustee, and her husband, Charles Ashby Lewis H’15, establishes an endowment that will provide CLS greater flexibility and ensure it can readily embrace new opportunities for supporting students.
Francisco Pantoja Martinez, class of 2025, received the Celina Karp Biniaz Model of Resilience Award.

Francisco Pantoja Martinez ’25 Receives the Celina Karp Biniaz Model of Resilience Award

May 18, 2025
The Award was established to honor Celina’s courageously hopeful life and legacy and bestows a cash prize. Celina Karp Biniaz, class of 1952, endowed the award to support a graduating senior with two key intentions: One, to aid students like her who had to overcome obstacles to obtain their education. Two, to recognize and support such students who wish to pursue careers teaching young people OR working for organizations or governmental entities whose core mission focuses on the education and welfare of young people.
Rachel Rudacille ’26, a 2025 Truman Scholar, presents their summer 2024 research at the Conference for Undergraduate Women and Gender Minorities in Physics, January 2025, in Houghton, Michigan.

Rachel Rudacille ’26 Named Truman Scholar

Apr 18, 2025
Rudacille is one of 54 new Truman Scholars selected from 743 candidates nominated by 288 colleges and universities. Truman Scholars must demonstrate outstanding leadership potential, a commitment to a career in public service, and academic excellence. Each Truman Scholar receives a scholarship worth up to $30,000 for graduate or professional school, leadership training, career advising, and special internship and fellowship opportunities within the federal government.
North Campus in the spring with red buds blooming and 2 people walking across

Grinnell College Civic Engagement Leaders Receive Regional Recognition

Apr 14, 2025
Two members of the Grinnell College community have been recognized with prestigious civic engagement awards from Seed Coalition. Wiralba Pichardo ’25 – Recipient of the Presidents’ Student Leadership Award and Assistant Professor of Political Science, Andreas Jozwiak – Recipient of the Presidents’ Civic Engagement Leadership Award.
A group of graduating students at commencement, clapping for a speaker at the ceremony

Where They Go, What They Do: Graduates After Grinnell

Apr 08, 2025
Finding one’s way in the “real world” can be tough, but Grinnell College students consistently meet the challenge, as our 2021-24 graduates demonstrate.
Sara Garcia ’25

Sara Garcia ’25 receives the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship

Mar 14, 2025
Garcia, from St. Paul, MN, is among 37 students selected nationwide from 155 finalists from 41 partner schools to receive the $40,000 fellowship stipend. The program offers “college graduates of unusual promise a year of purposeful, independent exploration and international travel to enhance their capacity for resourcefulness, imagination, openness, and leadership and to foster their humane and effective participation in the world community.”

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