In a dark laboratory, a professor with long blond hair points inside a protected hood, while a student reaches inside the hood to manipulate an experiment.

MacInnes Explores Greener Frontiers with Electrochemistry

Mar 14, 2024
Molly MacInnes, assistant professor of chemistry, is developing an innovative silicon purification process for a cleaner, healthier Earth.
A crowd of protesters holding signs against the World Trade Organization

Building Community through Protest

Mar 11, 2024
Sharon Quinsaat’s book, “Insurgent Communities: How Protests Create a Filipino Diaspora,” looks at how protest allows migrants to form a community that extends across borders.
A man stands at a podium and addresses a lecture hall.

Osera, Honored Grinnell Lecturer, on Automation and Pedagogy with Soul

Mar 07, 2024
Peter-Michael Osera, assistant professor of computer science, gave the 2024 Grinnell Lecture, exploring program synthesis and what automation can reveal to us about the ways we teach and learn.
The Des Moines skyline illuminated at sunset.

Computer Science Students Track Biased Policing, Inform NAACP Advocacy

Feb 20, 2024
Eric Autry, Anthony Schwindt ’25 and Tanmaie Kailash ’24 are analyzing traffic stop data and helping Iowa civil rights organizations shed light on trends in racially biased policing.
A young woman in sunglasses poses in front of ancient ruins in Greece.

The Classics Prepare Students for Law School and More

Feb 13, 2024
A classics major is very applicable to the modern world, says Makaila Hootman ’25, who plans to go on to law school.
A green and black damselfly is held carefully by its wing.

New Science Division Members Enthrall During “Lightning Talks”

Feb 01, 2024
Grinnellians got a taste of their colleagues’ research during the first in a series of New Faculty/Staff Lightning Talks on Tuesday.
Indigenous people

Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America

Jan 30, 2026
Digital resource presenting insight into interactions between the indigenous peoples of North America and Europeans from their earliest contact up to the civil rights movement of the mid-20th century.
An outside view of Herrick Chapel with snow

Grinnell to Install Two New Endowed Faculty Chairs

Jan 21, 2025
The Grinnell community is invited to attend an installation ceremony for two new endowed professors at 4:15 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025, in Herrick Chapel.
The Sociology and Subculture website

Sociology and Subculture

Dec 19, 2023
Student Livia Stein Freitas ’25 explores Sociology and Subculture through a Vivero Fellowship.
A student pours a solution from a flask into a test vial.

Chemistry of the Commonplace

Dec 15, 2023
For their final projects, students in CHM 358 Instrumental Analysis are bringing everyday products into the laboratory for intense scientific scrutiny.

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