Center for Prairie Studies News
Apr 15, 2014
Living sustainably in place at Grinnell College, April 12-May 3, 2014
Apr 9, 2014
Occupational/environmental health expert shares public health implications of animal production, discusses careers in health.
Mar 26, 2014
Silvia Federici discusses the price we’ve paid for the loss of our relation to the land, and women’s struggles to reclaim it.
Jan 14, 2014
Zoe Schein ’12 shares the cure for a crowded mind in her recent comic “The Size of Things.”
Nov 11, 2013
David Bollier discusses the commons—digital and otherwise—in a roundtable discussion and lecture Nov. 18-19.
Oct 29, 2013
German guest writers Thomas Pletzinger and Simon Urban visit classes and present a public reading.
Sep 13, 2013
Experience the allure and beauty of the prairie after the sun sets as you explore the College’s Conard Environmental Research Area (CERA).
Aug 23, 2013
Fall events include an evening at CERA, sustainability tours, drawing workshops, and the Prairie Festival.
Aug 23, 2013
New students interested in Prairie Studies can take their pick of tutorials.
Center For Prairie Studies Stories
Our feeling was that if you are not connected to your place, you won’t take care of it. From this conversation emerged the idea of embracing our location and using it as a teaching and learning tool.