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Grinnell College will honor Edith Renfrow Smith, Class of 1937, one of the College’s most accomplished and beloved alumni, by naming the Civic Engagement Quad (CEQ) Core Building in her honor.  

For the eleventh year since the event’s conception, Grinnell College’s Pioneer Bookshop will donate 10% of their December sales to support middle and high-school libraries in the Grinnell-Newburg Community School District. 

Learn more about the ongoing work with the Salisbury House Library Collection through a virtual talk with Iowa Bibliophiles hosted by the University of Iowa.

Grinnell College invites alumni, faculty, staff, parents, and community members to celebrate and strengthen our campus community this GivingTuesday.

Ham Serunjogi ’16 was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in finance for 2023. Serunjogi is CEO of Chipper Cash, a financial technology company he founded with Maijid Moujaled ’14.

A Grinnell graduate and biochemist solves the structure of elusive proteins while re-imagining the culture of scientific research.

Grinnell College will stream Kevin Puts' “The Hours” on December 10 as part of the Met’s 2022-23 Live in HD season. 

Writers@Grinnell welcomes artful activist, multi-genre writer, scholar, teacher, and practicing optimist, DJ Savarese, on Thurs., Dec. 8, 2022 at 5 p.m. at the Pioneer Bookstore.

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

President Anne F. Harris offers deepest condolences to the families, friends, and loved ones of the people who lost their lives as a result of this senseless violence.

Build a Better Grinnell 2030 (BABG 2030) has received a grant of $197,153 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Placemaking Innovation Challenge. These funds will support the mission of the BABG 2030 project: to identify and prioritize community needs as well as resources, assets, and partners to guide community development and quality-of-life improvement over the next decade. 

In this Authors and Artists podcast episode, Grant Faulkner ’87 talks about National Novel Writing Month, 100 Word Story, and his book of short stories, “All the Comfort Sin Can Provide.”