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The Wall Awards inspire generations of Grinnellians.

A new seven-year plan sets a course that will strengthen collaboration and positive change.

A thriving environmental field station on land that both teaches and inspires.

Grinnell’s diverse and vibrant student organizations bring camaraderie, service, and fun to campus life.

Students in the American Journeys class seek experience, identity, and the authentic self.

Grinnell College Board of Trustees member Christina Cutlip ’83 and her husband, Mark Cutlip, made a lead gift to establish The Gurira Family Scholarship Fund in honor of Rogers Gurira, who taught chemistry at Grinnell, and his wife Josephine, who worked in Burling Library.

On Yom HaShoah, we honor Holocaust survivor and Professor Emeritus Harold Kasimow, beloved teacher and adviser known for his empathy, his understanding, his thoughtful silences, and his kindness.

Sarah Luebke Sproehnle ’00 has established a faculty scholar award at Grinnell College.

In her own words, learn what motivates and inspires Anne Harris as she works to lead Grinnell College in a year filled with challenges

From flowering crabapples to sycamores, birches, and firs, the trees dotting Grinnell’s campus have served as familiar landmarks — as well as beloved spots to climb, make art, and meet for class — for generations of Grinnell students.

Typical January temperatures in Fairbanks, Alaska, hover near 20 below zero. Some of my jogging friends would brave the cold and continue their pastime outdoors. I chose an alternative venue, a narrow track circling the Olympic-size hockey rink at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks.

Alumni are nominated for Grinnell College’s Alumni Awards for many reasons. Below are a few of the reasons their supporters offered.

In the late 1960s, when the future president of the American Medical Association expressed an interest in medicine, her high school guidance counselor advised her that women don’t go to medical school. Today Dr. Barbara McAneny ’73 is a nationally recognized leader in oncology treatment, and this June begins her term as president of the AMA, the fourth woman president and the first president from New Mexico.

People are sometimes surprised to learn that Steven Galster ’84 works equally hard to protect both humans and animals.