To better prepare students for global citizenry, Grinnell College has begun sending entire courses on international field trips during winter break. Here are snapshots of the first trips, which…
“I was working on my calculus homework in the math lab, and one of the tutors got sidetracked and started to tell me about an article that she had read about ‘yarn bombing’ — people knitting…
At the age of 98, civil rights leader Grace Lee Boggs still has a lot to say. And on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, she came to Grinnell College to say it.
Jennifer Williams Brown will be on leave 2013–14 to complete her edition of Francesco Cavalli’s opera Scipione Affricano and to work on her book, From Page to Stage:…
In December, the Center for Public Anthropology, a nonprofit that promotes social accountability in anthropology, recognized six Grinnell students for their essays addressing research ethics. …
Don Larsen toed the rubber on the Yankee Stadium mound, ready to pitch the fifth game of the 1956 World Series. A half-continent away, Professor Irving Fishman prepared an…
It started to rain after midnight, cool drops on my scalp and my eyelids. I slid deeper into my sleeping bag, watching through the slit at the top as dark shapes moved around me, figures hauling…
Harry Hopkins 1912 is best known as a the architect of the Works Progress Administration. But he had an arguably more important role in world history — as an aide to F.D.R. during…
When George Drake ’56 was a student at Grinnell, he didn’t give much thought to the fact that his female peers couldn’t play sports. “The women watched,…
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