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This spring, three enterprising students kicked off Grinnell’s first Liberal Arts in Finance Symposium. The April 6 event featured nine alumni speakers and an array of panels, networking sessions,…

Sarah Kay received a doctor of humane letters for expanding the reach and power of spoken word poetry. She began performing at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York at age 14 and was…

“I’ve been to three graduation ceremonies, and this was my favorite. I liked all of the speeches; it was windy, so people’s hats kept blowing off. We didn’t realize we were supposed to line up, so…

Henry Walker, professor of computer science, received international recognition recently for his service, scholarship, and 40-plus years of teaching. The Special Interest Group on…

Staring out at an assembly of bright-faced Grinnellians, Verlyn Klinkenborg announced: “The way you’ve been taught writing is wrong.” A few people flinched. “Forget about the rules and the writing…

When folks saw Yafa Napadensky ’81 and Bob Shannon ’81 at their 30-year cluster reunion in June last year, they couldn’t help noticing how happy — even luminous —…

It’s an old saw: There are more cows than people in Iowa.
(And hogs. And chickens. And ears of corn.)

But though we spend four…

National Gilman Scholarships give students chance to study abroad, pursuing longstanding interests.

Russian majors and Russian, Central and Eastern European Studies concentrators head out to life after Grinnell.