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Your Grinnell student days may be coming to a close, but your quest for knowledge does not have to be. To support alumni’s lifelong learning endeavors, the Grinnell College Libraries and Office of Development and Alumni Relations are pleased to provide alumni with access to a range of academic databases.

Beggs comes full circle, mentoring and being mentored, inspiring and being inspired.

The Board of Trustees has approved the awarding of tenure, and President Anne F. Harris has approved numerous faculty promotions for the 2021–22 academic year.

I used Grinnell’s individually advised curriculum to explore my interests and carve my own interdisciplinary path.

Ariel Richards ’23 has been selected for a competitive American Society of Pharmacognosy (ASP) Summer Research Fellowship (SRF). She is synthesizing molecules and evaluating their biological activity in the lab of Erick Leggans, assistant professor of chemistry at Grinnell College and member of the ASP. ASP members investigate plants and other natural products for drug discovery.

The Post-Pandemic Return to Workplace committee has been meeting over the past several weeks to develop recommendations for a phased return to workplace on-campus plan. Employees who are normally contracted to work during the summer will return to standard campus operations between June 21 and August 9, in accordance with their department’s plan.

The board elected Michael Kahn, a 1974 Grinnell graduate, to a two-year term

Grinnellians rose to the challenges brought on by remote learning during the 2020–21 academic year. Theatre majors, like Conner Stanfield ’21, didn't let anything get in their way.

Nicole Eikmeier, assistant professor of computer science at Grinnell College since 2019, has been named a Scialog fellow by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement.