Academic Affairs and Dean of the College

A gift from the late Jack Hanson '39 and Lucile Hanson '40 Harris has endowed annual competitive fellowships for early career faculty members at Grinnell. The fellowships provide awardees with a leave at full salary for one academic year and up to $8,000 in research/travel funds.

Grinnell College is pleased to announce that Ham Serunjogi ’16, the co-founder and CEO of Chipper Cash, will speak at the 2023 Commencement Ceremony on May 22, 2023.

The Community Education Cooperative’s Bucket Courses are weekly, 90-minute classes taught by Grinnell College faculty members at the Drake Community Library. These courses are free, open to the Grinnell community.

Trustees, faculty, staff, alumni, students and community members were invited to celebrate the new and renovated spaces, which support teaching, learning, and collaboration. The event included tours of the building, a formal dedication, and an all-campus luncheon on Kington Plaza.

Grinnell College is celebrating the $116,000 renewal of a grant that supports the College’s Mellon-Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program. This program is the central component of the Mellon Foundation’s efforts to increase diversity in the faculty ranks of institutions of higher learning nationwide by supporting students from groups historically excluded from the academy as they pursue Ph.D.s.

Beronda L. Montgomery explores the vigorous, creative lives of organisms often treated as static and predictable in this Authors and Artists Podcast episode.

The start of the 2022-23 academic year brings new faces to the campus and community.

Grinnell College will welcome one of its most diverse, highly-qualified classes in history. This fall, the incoming first-year class of 441 new students will join an already outstanding student body attracted by the College’s outstanding academic reputation, individually advised curriculum, and opportunities to gain knowledge and experience both in and outside of the classroom.

The American Society of Plant Biologists has presented the 2022 Adolph E. Gude Jr. Award to Grinnell College’s recently appointed Dean, Beronda Montgomery, for her achievements as a scholar, mentor, and communicator.

During the 2022 Commencement ceremony, Grinnell College will award honorary degrees to the following individuals who have made major contributions to the fields of law, science, humanities, and social science. Grinnell honors three faculty members retiring in 2022 for their years of service and bestows on them the title of emeritus faculty.