Stephanie Jones, associate professor of education, has received an American Philosophical Society Franklin Grant of $6,000 for her project, “Mapping Racialized Trauma: A Critical Race Spatial Analysis of Counter Cartographic Narratives of Race and Racism in Schools.”
Grinnell College has lost a friend with the passing of Katherine "Kitty" Pierson Crosby, the wife of retired trustee, David Crosby. Kitty died peacefully at her home on Aug. 2, 2022, at the age of 82.
For the first time ever, Grinnell College will host a performance poet on campus for a weeklong residency by the inimitable and indefatigable jessica Care moore and culminate in a Friday night poetry slam with her students, in Rosenfield Center, Room 101.
Writers@Grinnell Welcomes Riva Lehrer, Thurs., Oct. 27, 2022, 8 p.m., Grinnell College Museum of Art
Innovative and award-winning artist, writer, and curator, Riva Lehrer, joins Writers@Grinnell on Thurs., Oct. 27, 2022; 8 p.m.; Grinnell College Museum of Art.
Grinnell College student-turned-bestselling-novelist, Sequoia Nagamatsu ’04 returns to campus! Tues. Oct. 11, 2022, 8 p.m.
Writers@Grinnell welcomes stand-up comedian, TV writer, and fiction writer Amy Silverberg, Tues. Nov. 1, 8 p.m., Rosenfield Center, Room 101.
A Major Research Instrumentation Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation and a grant awarded to Professor Andy Mobley by the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust will fund the purchase of a 400MHz Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectrometer, broadening the possibilities of campus research and hands-on learning.
Webster, biological chemistry, has been named a 2022 Hanna H. Gray Fellow by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute for her work studying plant, pathogen, and microbiome interactions.
The Writers@Grinnell series continues with acclaimed debut novelists Sarah Thankam Mathews and Belinda Huijuan Tang on Thurs. Sept. 29, 2022, at 8 p.m. in the Pioneer Bookshop.
The 2022–23 Writers@Grinnell series kicks off with poets Kaveh Akbar and Paige Lewis on Tuesday, Sept. 20, at 8 p.m. in the Joe Rosenfield ’25 Center, Room 101.
Access to the searchable full text of several hundred British periodicals from the late 17th century to the early 21st.
The Grinnell College Department of Biology is seeking to hire a colleague whose research and expertise fall under the umbrella of evolutionary biology. You can see the full position description and application details here.
Daniel Rosenbloom’s MAP, titled Russian-English Translation of Russian-language Linguistic Studies, reflects his interest in languages and politics. Rosenbloom set out to translate a book on the linguistics of the Avar language, which is spoken in the remote Russian republic of Dagestan.
I want to extend a warm welcome to all Grinnellians, starting with the newest members of our community, the class of 2026. Whether you are familiar with the rolling prairies and wide-open Iowa skies or you are seeing campus for the first time — you belong here.