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“I was working on my calculus homework in the math lab, and one of the tutors got sidetracked and started to tell me about an article that she had read about ‘yarn bombing’ — people knitting…

Don Larsen toed the rubber on the Yankee Stadium mound, ready to pitch the fifth game of the 1956 World Series. A half-continent away, Professor Irving Fishman prepared an…

Animals Among Us

April 5 through June 30

This exhibition uses works of art and other artifacts from Grinnell College collections to unpack the connections…

To better prepare students for global citizenry, Grinnell College has begun sending entire courses on international field trips during winter break. Here are snapshots of the first trips, which…

In December, the Center for Public Anthropology, a nonprofit that promotes social accountability in anthropology, recognized six Grinnell students for their essays addressing research ethics. …

At the age of 98, civil rights leader Grace Lee Boggs still has a lot to say. And on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, she came to Grinnell College to say it.

For more than six decades, Boggs…

The New York Times called it “a science fiction dream.” The Times was talking about the app Doug Cook ’94, Ryan Hovenweep ’98 and…

Srinivas is a Professor of English and Dean of the Humanities at Duke University.  He has also served as President of the CHCI (Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes).

Natasha Trethewey is the 19th United States Poet Laureate [2012-2013]. In his citation, Librarian of…