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Chinese House resident Kai Gui taught students how to make hand-pulled noodles on Friday, April 26, 2019.

Student Mental Health Task Force has suggested near-term steps to help address student mental health needs, while also researching and developing more comprehensive long-range recommendations. Read the complete report of the Student Mental Health Task Force and share any immediate comments about the report or the task force’s work via a Student Mental Health Task Force Qualtrics form.

Adam Dalton ’16 becomes second openly gay male-identified athlete to qualify for Olympic marathon trials.

Camille Hall ’19 has been selected to receive the 2019 Global Scholars Fellowship. The fellow is granted up to $30,000 for one year of study or research in at least three sites internationally.

Nicholas Haeg ’20 was part of a group of faculty and student researchers from Grinnell College and Yale University that dispersed over the European continent during summer 2018 to document country-by-country both the remembrance and the revisionism that surround the Holocaust.

Dartanyan “Dart” Brown, one of the most celebrated musicians in Iowa history, will present a free concert of jazz, electronic/experimental and American roots music.

Professor Hamza Zafer of the University of Washington in Seattle will discuss “Safiyya, daughter of Aaron: Muhammad’s Jewish Wife in Early Muslim Historiography” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 25, 2019, in Rosenfield Center, Room 101.

Jochen Autschbach will provide a personal perspective on why chemistry deserves a central place in science, and provide some important, some entertaining, and some curious facts at 11 a.m. April 30, 2019.

From local poverty alleviation organizations to schools and conservation groups, the city of Grinnell and surrounding communities are filled with people who welcome the help of Grinnell College volunteers.

Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Edward Larson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and legal scholar, will give the Scholars’ Convocation Lecture at 11 a.m. Thursday, April 25, in Room 101 of the Joe Rosenfield ’25 Center, and host a coffee hour from 4 to 5 p.m. in Mears Cottage.

Offered in both the spring and fall, BCM 262: Introduction to Biological Chemistry builds on what students have learned in their previous biology and chemistry courses to give them “a more sophisticated level of understanding."

Renee Scheltema, a Dutch documentary filmmaker and photographer, will lead a discussion about climate change after the screening of her latest documentary “Normal Is Over” at 3:30 p.m. Sunday, April 14, in Room 2022 of the Robert N. Noyce ’49 Science Center.

Emily Austin, assistant professor of classics at the University of Chicago, will present “Why Classics? Reception and Receptivity” at 4:15 on April 16 in room N3118 of the Humanities and Social Studies Center.