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Please join the Grinnell College Libraries at 4:15 p.m., Oct. 3, as we continue our faculty/Staff Research Series with Laura Ng, assistant professor of anthropology, for her Research in Progress talk, “Archaeological Landscapes of Chinese American Communities in the Southwestern Urban Frontier.”

Grinnell College is excited to welcome Dr. Aomawa Shields, an astronomer and astrobiologist at the University of California, Irvine, to give two talks on campus. Shields will host a physics…

Assistant Dean for Academic Success Belinda Backous discusses work, life on an Iowa homestead, and her love of the outdoors.

On Tuesday, Sept. 26, President Biden announced the inaugural members of the President’s Advisory Council on African Diaspora Engagement in the United States, which aims to enhance dialogue between U.S. officials and the African diaspora.  

Kylie Ann Smith ’27 and Preston Yoshino ’27 traveled 3,985 miles from their hometown of Honolulu, Hawaii, to attend college in Grinnell, Iowa. Learn about their motivations here.

LibKey Nomad is a browser extension to get fast access to scholarly academic articles and has a new feature that links ebooks.

Everybody,” written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, is a play about the universal experience of life and death that premiered off-Broadway in 2017. A contemporary version of the 15th century morality play “Everyman,” “Everybody” explores abstract concepts through characters like Love, Evil, and Friendship.