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    Grinnell After Fire

    It started to rain after midnight, cool drops on my scalp and my eyelids. I slid deeper into my sleeping bag, watching through the slit at the top as dark shapes moved around me, figures hauling…

  2. Professor Fishman on Deck

    Mar 20, 2013

    Don Larsen toed the rubber on the Yankee Stadium mound, ready to pitch the fifth game of the 1956 World Series. A half-continent away, Professor Irving Fishman prepared an…

  3. The Ethical Anthropologists

    Mar 20, 2013

    In December, the Center for Public Anthropology, a nonprofit that promotes social accountability in anthropology, recognized six Grinnell students for their essays addressing research ethics. …

  4. From Page to Stage

    Mar 20, 2013

    Jennifer Williams Brown will be on leave 2013–14 to complete her edition of Francesco Cavalli’s opera Scipione Affricano and to work on her book, From Page to Stage:…

  5. At the Faulconer Gallery Spring 2013

    Mar 20, 2013

    Animals Among Us

    April 5 through June 30

    This exhibition uses works of art and other artifacts from Grinnell College collections to unpack the connections…

  6. “It’s All Up to You”

    Mar 20, 2013

    At the age of 98, civil rights leader Grace Lee Boggs still has a lot to say. And on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, she came to Grinnell College to say it.

    For more than six decades, Boggs…

  7. Yarn Bombing the Peace Grove

    Mar 20, 2013

    “I was working on my calculus homework in the math lab, and one of the tutors got sidetracked and started to tell me about an article that she had read about ‘yarn bombing’ — people knitting…

  8. Fire and Ice

    Mar 20, 2013

    To better prepare students for global citizenry, Grinnell College has begun sending entire courses on international field trips during winter break. Here are snapshots of the first trips, which…

  9. The Next Big Thing is Small

    Mar 20, 2013

    The New York Times called it “a science fiction dream.” The Times was talking about the app Doug Cook ’94, Ryan Hovenweep ’98 and…

  10. 2012-2013 Distinguished Author: Natasha Trethewey

    Mar 19, 2013

    Natasha Trethewey is the 19th United States Poet Laureate [2012-2013]. In his citation, Librarian of…

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