Communications and Marketing

It’s college rankings season again. For almost four decades, Grinnell College has consistently placed among the top-20 best small liberal arts colleges in the United States. In 1983, U.S. News and World Report released its first ranking of America’s Best Colleges, placing Grinnell at #13. U.S. News and other outlets have recently released new college rankings.

Professor of French David Harrison is one of the editors of a new translation and critical examination of the novel, titled La Princesse de Clèves by Lafayette: A New Translation and Bilingual Pedagogical Edition for the Digital Age

Clark Lindgren, Keisuke Hasegawa, Pascal Lafontant, Vida Praitis, Josh Sandquist, and Mark Levandoski were awarded the NSF Major Research Instrumentation grant to purchase a laser scanning confocal microscope, a breakthrough in the research capabilities of faculty and students throughout the sciences at Grinnell.

Coming from Syracuse University, de Graffenreid will begin work at Grinnell in June. De Graffenreid comes to Grinnell with more than 20 years of experience leading marketing and communications programs for higher education and academic medicine; she has also led award-winning integrated marketing communications programs that built national and international recognition for the institutions she served.

In this Authors and Artists episode, host Marshall Poe ’84 talked to Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant about her book "To Live More Abundantly: Black Collegiate Women, Howard University, and the Audacity of Dean Lucy Diggs Slowe."

The Office of Communications has partnered with the New Books Network to create a new podcast initiative showcasing the creative processes and latest work of Grinnell alumni, faculty, and staff.

Nick El Hajj ’24 and Shrey Agrawal ’24 used the summer of 2021 to check off once-in-a-lifetime experiences from their bucket list in Grinnell and across the state of Iowa.

For the 2020-21 admission cycle Grinnell College will adopt a test optional admission policy.

For anyone looking for an opportunity to engage in some local community service, Connecting Grinnellians is an excellent student organization to consider.

Katie Bouman, whose algorithm led to the first image of a black hole, will give the 2020 Commencement address.