In collaboration with the College’s Office of Civic Education and Innovation, many faculty members have implemented community-engaged aspects into their courses. Community-engaged learning (C-EL) classes were the vision of Wadzanai Motsi-Khatai ’12, who championed a student government initiative that ultimately led to the establishment of the Civic Education and Innovation (CEI) Office within the Center for Careers, Life, and Service (CLS).
Academic opportunities, career mentoring, and financial support from Grinnell helped Ellen Hengesbach ’24 turn an internship into a meaningful career.
Valery Lopez '24, Daniel Rosenbloom ’23, and Kendall Yim ’24—were awarded Fulbright U.S. Student Program grants to teach English abroad for the 2024–2025 academic year from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
Martinez has been named the recipient of the Celina Karp Biniaz Model of Resilience Award from Grinnell College. The award was established to honor Celina’s courageously hopeful life and legacy and bestows a cash prize.
The Udall Foundation awards scholarships and special honors to college sophomores and juniors for study in fields related to the environment and to Native Americans and Alaska Natives in fields related to health care and Tribal public policy.
Joyce Ceballos ’25 has joined the list of Grinnellians accepted to the prestigious Public Policy and International Affairs Program (PPIA). In past years, Grinnell students Valery Lopez ’24, Loyal Terry ’23, Maximillian Hill ’20, and Angela Frimpong ’20 have also participated in the program.
Sarah Barks, senior director, STEM career communities and analytics, talks about their great ape research, work in the Center for Careers, Life, and their life in Grinnell.
The International Honor Society in Psychology, Psi Chi, awarded Andrea Suazo Rivas ’24 a grant to conduct research on digital cognitive assessment surveys.
As Grinnellians, these graduates carry with them not only a prestigious diploma but also a legacy of intellectual curiosity and a commitment to making a difference in the world.
Grinnell’s Center for Careers, Life, and Service offers need-based grants that support students’ personal, professional, and civic development. That includes expenses (including travel) associated with interviewing for a job or applying to grad school.
The best work that we can do for the environment, for nature and wildlife, and for each other, is get involved with the local communities because that is where the impact of our work can be seen.
You never know where your life is going to take you. So be open to possibilities that might open up.
What is One Health? It’s “recognizing the interconnected relationships between human, animal, and environmental health and working together across those disciplines and sectors," says Griffith.
I really appreciate that I went to school in a time when I learned to relate to the patient, professionally, socially, and personally.
Conservation work needs individuals who can foster a mindset of interconnectedness.
Our social environment affects how we study other organisms. We often use the animal world as justification or examples for how humans should be, which is dangerous.
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