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  1. 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.
    Academic Excellence

    Rachel Rudacille ’26 Named Truman Scholar

    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.
  2. Isabel Wilkerson

    Celebrated Author and Pulitzer Prize–Winner Isabel Alexis Wilkerson to Deliver 2025 Grinnell College Commencement Address

    Apr 16, 2025
    Grinnell College is honored to announce that Isabel Alexis Wilkerson, celebrated author, Pulitzer Prize winner, and National Humanities Medal recipient, will deliver the 2025 Commencement address. Wilkerson, a leading voice in narrative nonfiction, is known for her compelling interpretation of the human condition.

  3. Randy Morgan ’65 Selected as Inaugural Recipient of Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award

    Apr 16, 2025
    The award honors distinguished senior members of the alumni community who have demonstrated outstanding leadership, a commitment to service, and exemplary character in their personal and professional lives.
  4. Senator Joseph McCarthy stands at a map of the United States holding a pointer in a crowded meeting room. Joseph Welch is seated at a table and holding his head as if tired.

    Three-Minute History: Grinnellian Joseph Welch Deals a Blow to McCarthyism

    Apr 16, 2025
    Grinnell alumnus and attorney Joseph Welch 1914 challenged Senator Joseph McCarthy in a 1954 congressional hearing. In the process, he helped bring about the end of McCarthyism.
  5. Students in the Political Economy of Developing Countries course traveled to Ghana over spring break.

    From Grinnell to Ghana

    Apr 15, 2025
    In spring 2025, students in Barry Driscoll’s Political Economy of Developing Countries course traveled to Ghana to study the economics of cocoa farming.
  6. Emma Schaefer at Track Meet

    Emma’s Journey

    Apr 15, 2025
    With the help of her community, Emma created an independent major, ran cross country at the national level, traveled to Europe, and found the importance of music in communities.
  7. Dozens of surfers in the green ocean water under a sky that looks green as well

    Surfing Safari: Grinnellian explores surfing art and culture

    Apr 15, 2025
    Olivia Wang ’25 loves to surf. With support from Fischlowitz Travel Fellowship, she traveled to California, Wisconsin, and Florida to explore the sport.
  8. Vietnamese boat people

    Immigrations, Migrations and Refugees, Global Perspectives, 1941–1996

    Apr 14, 2025
    Translated and English-language radio and television broadcasts, newspapers, periodicals, government documents and books providing global insight on immigration in the mid-to-late 20th century
  9. 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.
  10. Gates Rawson tower stands at the center of an aerial view of North Campus. Tall, green trees hide much of the buildings and the west side of town. The sky is blue with fluffy wite clouds

    Grinnell College Receives Hearst Foundations Grant to Enhance Transfer Student Recruitment and Support

    Apr 11, 2025
    Grinnell College has been awarded a $150,000 grant from the William Randolph Hearst Foundations to expand its efforts in recruiting and supporting transfer students from both two- and four-year institutions.

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