Faculty Awards and Accomplishments ,
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Saba Awarded ‘Life Worth Living’ Fellowship

Mar 21, 2024
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and History Elias Saba has been awarded a 2024 Life Worth Living Faculty Course Development Fellowship from the Yale Center for Faith and Culture.
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Building Community through Protest

Mar 11, 2024
Sharon Quinsaat’s book, “Insurgent Communities: How Protests Create a Filipino Diaspora,” looks at how protest allows migrants to form a community that extends across borders.
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Osera, Honored Grinnell Lecturer, on Automation and Pedagogy with Soul

Mar 07, 2024
Peter-Michael Osera, assistant professor of computer science, gave the 2024 Grinnell Lecture, exploring program synthesis and what automation can reveal to us about the ways we teach and learn.
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Community Champions: Grinnell College Employees Making A Difference

Feb 29, 2024
Did you know that there are over 20,000 nonprofits in Iowa working every day to improve lives and strengthen communities? The demand for nonprofit leadership continues to grow. However, in Grinnell and in other rural communities, most community organizations run with little or no staff and are highly dependent on the dedication of volunteers to accomplish their missions.
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Interfaith America Grant to Expand Bridge-Building Dialogue in Grinnell Community

Feb 26, 2024
Ryan Solomon and the Listening Project team, which includes both Grinnell community members and Grinnell College students, have been awarded a $3,850 grant from Interfaith America's Bridging the Gap program.
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Darrius Hills Awarded Prestigious Fellowship from the Louisville Institute's Sabbatical Grant for Researchers

Feb 20, 2024
The grant will facilitate Hills' year-long sabbatical in 2025, during which he will embark on his second book project titled A Tale of Two Cities: Muscular Christianity and Red Pill Masculinity. The project promises to shed light on the complex intersection of American evangelicalism and contemporary popular culture.
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Computer Science Students Track Biased Policing, Inform NAACP Advocacy

Feb 20, 2024
Eric Autry, Anthony Schwindt ’25 and Tanmaie Kailash ’24 are analyzing traffic stop data and helping Iowa civil rights organizations shed light on trends in racially biased policing.
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Dazzlement: A Visit to the Covalanas Cave

Feb 02, 2024
John Rommereim, a Grinnell music professor, traveled to Spain to see the cave art and wrote an essay, “Connecting the Dots at Covalanas Cave.”
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Gibson Publishes Sci-Fi/Fantasy Novel

Jan 22, 2024
Professor Emerita of Psychology Janet Gibson recently published her first novel, Jayel: Hands of a Healer, a science fiction book with elements of fantasy and mystery.
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Team NSF Grant to Advance Grant Seeking at Grinnell, Liberal Arts Colleges

Dec 12, 2023
Susan Ferrari and a team of colleagues sought the $100,000 grant to increase access to grant-seeking support and training for primarily undergraduate institutions across the nation.

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