Studying Arabic for Fun

Mar 23, 2017
What Grinnell course would you take if you could?

Fit for Life

Mar 23, 2017
Grinnell women made the most of their athletic options in the ’50s and ’60s

Conversing With Art

Mar 23, 2017

Art is a language. Artists communicate with us through color, form, subject, scale, texture, movement, and symbols. We all know how to “read” this language, if we stop and engage with the art…

Q & A: Mentoring Current Students

Mar 22, 2017

In 2014, the Alumni Student Connections Committee of the College’s Alumni Council initiated a project to facilitate mentoring relationships between alumni and current students. After…

Turning Grief into a Legacy

Mar 22, 2017

In his 48 years of life, physics professor Sujeev Wickramasekara made an immeasurable impact on his peers and his students. When he died in December 2015 at the age of 48 of a…

Best of Both Worlds

Mar 21, 2017
“Academics was first and foremost in my college search,” Nick Curta ’17 says. “I’ve been lucky enough to grow to 6 feet 6 inches and have some ability on the basketball court, but the academic environment of Grinnell really attracted me. Everybody here wants to learn, and everyone wants each other to succeed.”

Physics Professor Receives Prestigious NSF Grant

Mar 20, 2017

Eliza Kempton, assistant professor of physics, recently received a Faculty Early Career Development grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Familiar Names at 2017 Commencement

Mar 20, 2017

Honorary degree recipients at this year’s Commencement will include Kumail Nanjiani ’01, comedian and actor on Silicon Valley; Daniel Werner ’91…

Campus Construction Under Way

Mar 20, 2017
Students and faculty returned from winter break to see significant progress at the site of the new Humanities and Social Studies Complex (HSSC). In early January, carefully planned tree…

Students Craft Reusable Chopsticks

Mar 20, 2017

Students lined up on the first floor of Joe Rosenfield ’25 Center Jan. 26, patiently waiting their turn to make a personal set of reusable chopsticks from wood harvested to make way for the…

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