Ali Brown 4

Jan 04, 2013

Here we have another late report. Apparently Africa is still in my blood and I am still doing things slowly. I am back in the States. So is my luggage. So is Lauren. The latter two almost didn't…

James Anderson

Jan 04, 2013

So I'm stuck. Really trapped. In a bathroom. In Namibia. And there are seventy high-school students that I am supposed to be teaching about desert ecology milling around outside, wondering…

Preparing Seniors For the Transition Out of Grinnell

Jan 04, 2013

Helping Seniors With the Transition Out of Grinnell

This is an example of a pro-active advising strategy. The simple act of sending an email communication such as this can…

Sepia image members of the Iowa Band shows Alden B. Robbins, William Salter, Edwin B. Turner, Ebenezer Alden, Daniel Lane, Harvey Adams, Ephraim Adams and James J. Hill. Noted: Portraits are lacking of Erastus Ripley, Horace Hutchinson, Benjamin Spaulding

Griswold College

Aug 10, 2012

We recently received an interesting question regarding the relationship between Griswold College, in Davenport, IA, and Grinnell College, and whether Grinnell had ever been called Griswold. We had…

Shonda Kuiper, mathematics, awarded the 2012 MERLOT Classics Award

Aug 03, 2012

2012 Merlot Classics Award - Stat2Labs

The Sloan Consortium
Newburyport, Ma.,…

We love all our children equally

Jul 27, 2012
Posted by:  Jim Reische

In my last post I compared website development to a family dinner: it’s…

Harry Hopkins 1912

Web Audit

Jul 26, 2012
While we were spending a lot of time on the back-end of our web management, our site grew, organically, freely, and not necessarily coherently.

Barons of Beefe and Billy the Kid

Jul 13, 2012

On my second day at the archives, I pulled open a drawer that was literally overflowing with event posters from the last 50 years of Grinnell's Art and Music departments. Many of these were…

A Woman Worth Knowing

Jun 13, 2012
Edith Renfrow Smith ’37 as interviewed by Jacqueline Hartling Stolze, editor of The Grinnell Magazine, in 2012.
Harry Hopkins 1912

Post-Graduation Success Survey

Mar 26, 2012

The Postgraduate Success Working Group encountered a perception among various constituents on campus that Grinnellians thought pursuing a career with a for-profit organization was anti…

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