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Congratulations, Faculty!

Jun 13, 2018
9 faculty awarded tenure and promoted, 4 faculty promoted to full professor
The Grinnell Prize medal

New Model for Research

Jun 13, 2018
Grinnell College awards $100,000 Grinnell Prize to French innovator
Burling Library in early summer

Recommendations on Climate Impact, Sustainability, and Divestment

Jun 13, 2018

At the spring 2018 meeting of the Grinnell College Board of Trustees, the Fossil Fuels and Climate Impact Task Force issued its recommendations about climate impact and divestment. The board voted…

Thomas Rayfield

In Search of Tom Cole ’71

Mar 23, 2018

Grinnell has always impressed me by having few glitzy, headline-hogging alums. I’d like to think the College instead produces serious, hardworking leaders in all sorts of fields; the kind who do,…

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The Running Man

Mar 22, 2018

Barry Matchett ’94, director of external affairs for NRG Energy, a power generation company, is running campaigns to promote clean energy development. He also campaigns for…

Katie Hail-Jares on stone lined sidewalk at a covered street

Street-Based Sex Work

Mar 22, 2018

A biology and religious studies double-major at Grinnell College, Katie Hail-Jares ’07 looks back on Professor Tammy Nyden’s Philosophy of Science class as…

group holding their hands in finger guns

Fostering Community Grinnell Style

Mar 22, 2018

If you’ve ever stopped someone wearing a Grinnell sweatshirt or slightly stalked a vehicle with a Grinnell College bumper sticker, it’s probably because you know the delight a…

Hola! Bonjour! Guten Tag!

Mar 22, 2018

Emily Ricker ’18 knew she could “get away with speaking English” during her 2016 summer internship in Pohnpei, an island in the Federated States of Micronesia…

Jeanne Pinder

Uncompromising Journalism

Mar 22, 2018

Jeanne Pinder ’75 has been steeped in journalism all her life. The Grinnell native honed her craft over the years with the Grinnell Herald-Register (which her grandfather…

Madeleine Pesch on a beach at sunset holding her bike

Full Effort

Mar 21, 2018

Madeleine Pesch ’16 likes to joke that she would never have found Grinnell if it weren’t for the “amazing pool” she first saw in a swimming-and-diving brochure. She went on…

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