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Valerie Ann Johnson, who holds a faculty chair and directs Africana Women’s Studies at Bennett College in North Carolina, will give a lecture about how women respond to white supremacy and fascism at 4:15 p.m. on Thursday, April 4, in Room 152 of the Bucksbaum Center for the Arts.

In the Art History Senior Seminar, students pursue their own interests, conduct independent research, and discover new ways of learning.

A research project in China was just the beginning of this student’s educational journey.

An internship at the Stanley Museum of Art helped one student discover his future by exploring the past.

Pulizer Prizewinning poet Tyehimba Jess will lead a roundtable discussion about writing at 4:15 p.m. and read from his work at 8 p.m. on Thursday, April 4, in the Joe Rosenfield ’25 Center as part of the Writers@Grinnell program.

The College invites the public to celebrate the positive impact girls high school basketball has on Grinnell at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 3, in connection with the Hometown Teams: How Sports Shape America Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition at Drake Community Library.

Award-winning writer Wil Haygood will lead a roundtable discussion about writing at 4:15 p.m. and give the Armando Montaño Memorial Lecture at 8 p.m. on Thursday, April 11, in the Joe Rosenfield ’25 Center as part of the Writers@Grinnell program.

Collin Kramer ’15, a third-year medical student at the University of Iowa, came to Grinnell knowing that he wanted to study medicine. Thanks to the small class sizes, dedicated faculty, and abundant research opportunities offered by Grinnell’s biological chemistry program, Kramer graduated feeling well-prepared for medical school.

Emily Mesev ’15, molecular biology Ph.D. student at Princeton University, says that when she first visited Grinnell, “it felt like the best place for me.”