Oct 16, 2023
Students, faculty, and staff passionate about civic action and community engagement are invited to discuss and learn during Iowa and Minnesota Campus Compact’s annual Civic Action Academy.
Center for Careers, Life, and Service News
Oct 4, 2023
Drop in to the Oct. 9 Productivity Café from 3-5 pm in Burling Lounge and chat with CLS, DLAC, academic advising, and library experts.
Sep 12, 2023
Kathryn Jagow Mohrman ’67 created the Mohrman Fellowship Fund to support student research conducted with a faculty mentor.
Sep 6, 2023
Get some advice, set goals, and be productive at the Productivity Café, Wed., Sept. 13, from 3–5 p.m. in Burling First Floor Lounge.
Aug 8, 2023
Eleanor Elliott-Rude ’25 was selected for the summer 2023 cohort of the George Washington Carver Internship with the World Food Prize Foundation.
Jun 14, 2023
The winning team of Grinnellians offered strategies that could mold Coca-Cola into a more ethical and sustainable work environment.
May 31, 2023
Willig, class of 2023 from Brookline, Massachusetts, graduated with a music major and an American studies concentration. Their essay titled “Critical Fabulation for Survival: Knowledge of Pre-colonial Gender in Igbo Culture to Sustain Queer Imaginings of Care,” explores anti-queer and patriarchal violence in Nigeria and how these oppressive structures impact the nation’s citizens and members of its diaspora.
May 30, 2023
Grinnell College May 2023 graduates Daniel Rosenbloom and Dorota Ziabicka were awarded Critical Language Scholarships for summer 2023 and Pierce Fairbanks and Isabella Maloney participated in summer 2022.
May 26, 2023
The Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Graduate Fellowship program, named after distinguished U.S. diplomat Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering, offers a unique opportunity to promote positive change in the world.
May 17, 2023
Celina Karp Biniaz, class of 1952, endowed the award to support a graduating senior with two key intentions: 1) To aid students like her who had to overcome obstacles to obtain their education; and 2) To recognize and support such students who wish to pursue careers teaching young people OR working for organizations or governmental entities whose core mission focuses on the education and welfare of young people.
Center For Careers, Life, And Service Stories
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.