Hands in a wide variety of colors, clorhing, and decoration stack over each other in a circle.

The Drive To Do Good

Mar 11, 2024
The Wall Awards inspire generations of Grinnellians.
Grinnell College President Anne F. Harris

President Anne Harris: Building a Sense of Belonging

Oct 18, 2020
In her own words, learn what motivates and inspires Anne Harris as she works to lead Grinnell College in a year filled with challenges
several groups of people sit in the shade of a large oak tree on North Campus

Knowledge into Action Guides Grinnell’s Future Course

Mar 11, 2024
A new seven-year plan sets a course that will strengthen collaboration and positive change.
Students follow the road through prairie back to the environmental education center at sunset

Becoming Rooted: The Conard Environmental Research Area

Mar 11, 2024
A thriving environmental field station on land that both teaches and inspires.

Grinnell’s Fulbright Effect

Jul 22, 2024
Transforming lives and perspectives
people play dominoes at 2 tables, one smiles at the camera

Grinnell College and the Mayflower

Jul 30, 2024
When a few retired Iowa Congregational ministers wanted to develop a retirement community in the late 1940s, they chose Grinnell for its history as the center of Iowa Congregationalism and close ties to the College. Since then — enriched by common ground and shared goals — connections between the College and the Mayflower community have just grown stronger.
An old photograph of a family of 5 with father mother two daughters and a young son

Planting Seeds of Hope

Apr 17, 2023
On Yom HaShoah, we honor Holocaust survivor and Professor Emeritus Harold Kasimow, beloved teacher and adviser known for his empathy, his understanding, his thoughtful silences, and his kindness.

Alumna’s gift encourages women, BIPOC students to major in computer science

Nov 28, 2022
Sarah Luebke Sproehnle ’00 has established a faculty scholar award at Grinnell College.
Tor Erickson ’01 and Isabella Kugel ’20 stand in front of wood slabs that were made into a desk that now greets visitors in the new Admission and Student Financial Services center.

No Room for Error

Jan 03, 2019
From flowering crabapples to sycamores, birches, and firs, the trees dotting Grinnell’s campus have served as familiar landmarks — as well as beloved spots to climb, make art, and meet for class — for generations of Grinnell students.
David Hagstrom 2013

The Ice Rink Lesson

Jun 28, 2018
Typical January temperatures in Fairbanks, Alaska, hover near 20 below zero. Some of my jogging friends would brave the cold and continue their pastime outdoors. I chose an alternative venue, a narrow track circling the Olympic-size hockey rink at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks.

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