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…

Celina Karp Biniaz

Commencement 2018

Mar 20, 2018

Celina Karp Biniaz ’52, the youngest Jewish person rescued by Oskar Schindler, a Czech businessman, during the Holocaust, will be Grinnell College’s 2018 Commencement…

Construction site with partially constructed building

Construction update

Mar 20, 2018
The east side of Alumni Recitation Hall (ARH, originally opened in 1916) and Carnegie Hall (opened in 1905 as the College library and used since the 1950s for classrooms and offices) are being enclosed by a new structure.
spread of Grinnell Magazines

Readers Speak Volumes

Mar 20, 2018

How do our readers think we’re doing with The Grinnell Magazine? That question was the main focus of a reader survey conducted by Grinnell’s Office of…

drawing of a skull

Art and Science Unite

Mar 20, 2018

Jackie Brown, professor of biology, and Lesley Wright, director of the Faulconer Gallery, have teamed up to curate an exhibition that explores the relationship…

View of Gates Rawson arch way from behind red bud branches

Persuading Students to Choose Grinnell

Mar 20, 2018

In October of 2017, I had the pleasure of speaking with alumni volunteers on campus during Volunteer Weekend about the work of the admission and financial aid offices. I quizzed their memories of…

Fredo Rivera in Hatian art gallery

Studying Haitian Art in Iowa

Mar 15, 2018
When Fredo Rivera ’06, who grew up in Miami, first came to Grinnell, what he found surprised him. Iowa, it turns out, has one of the largest concentrations of Haitian art in the world.

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