Faculty Awards and Accomplishments News

A research highlight of Professor Molly MacInnes's heavy metal electrochemistry

Grinnell has been awarded a $400,000 grant from the National Science Foundation’s Enabling Partnerships to Increase Innovation Capacity (EPIIC) program [ITE-2519806]. This competitive program supports colleges and universities in building capacity to engage with external partners and contribute to the U.S. innovation economy by working in cohorts to address similar challenges and opportunities.

Perez, professor of Spanish, has been selected as a new artist in the Iowa Artist Career Accelerator Program for 2026. In addition, Perez received a grant award of $2,500 which she will use to research and develop a new series of large-scale mixed media textile sculptures inspired by pioneering women sculptors whose practices embody resilience, identity, and material innovation.

Clark Lindgren, Patricia A. Johnson Professor of Neuroscience, has been awarded a $515,078 grant from the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.

Grinnell College professors Marc Chamberland and Jeff Blanchard have been named the 2025 recipients of the Carl B. Allendoerfer Award from the Mathematical Association of America (MAA), recognizing their outstanding exposition in a mathematics article.

PRRI’s Public Fellows program is part of its Religion and Protecting Democracy Initiative, which supports scholars and practitioners whose research advances understanding of the complex ways religion intersects with American civic life.

The Alliance for the Advancement of Liberal Arts Colleges has awarded Grinnell College economics professor Xinchan Lu a $20,000 grant to host a workshop for faculty members at liberal arts colleges.

The Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction has awarded Grinnell College sociology professor Ross Haenfler the Helena Lopata Mentor Excellence Award, recognizing his accomplishments as a mentor to and advocate for junior scholars in the field of symbolic interactionism.

Professor Jin Feng developed a new Grinnell course that is likely one of the only stand-alone courses devoted to Chinese web fiction in North America.

Grinnell College is proud to announce that 11 faculty members have received promotions this spring.