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This spring, three enterprising students kicked off Grinnell’s first Liberal Arts in Finance Symposium. The April 6 event featured nine alumni speakers and an array of panels, networking sessions,…

Henry Walker, professor of computer science, received international recognition recently for his service, scholarship, and 40-plus years of teaching. The Special Interest Group on…

It’s an old saw: There are more cows than people in Iowa.
(And hogs. And chickens. And ears of corn.)

But though we spend four…

It doesn’t work like school.

This is the real world, and it doesn’t work like school. There is not necessarily immediate feedback, and there is much more responsibility to fend for…

From a Distance

Through Sept. 8

Photographer Lorna Bieber builds her monumental installations from the vast array of images that activate contemporary culture…

Meg Schmitt ’15 backpacked with Joy Tamayose ’88, a wildlife biologist on Maui, to the crater at the center of Haleakala National Park during her…

Sarah Kay received a doctor of humane letters for expanding the reach and power of spoken word poetry. She began performing at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York at age 14 and was…

Staring out at an assembly of bright-faced Grinnellians, Verlyn Klinkenborg announced: “The way you’ve been taught writing is wrong.” A few people flinched. “Forget about the rules and the writing…

National Gilman Scholarships give students chance to study abroad, pursuing longstanding interests.