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Assistant professor of art Andrew Kaufman’s Breach was an installation of 10 small, disassembled television monitors that make and remake drawings…

The Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa (RAGBRAI) has been a state tradition since 1973. For the past four years, a Grinnell team has joined the now-15,000-strong bike ride for seven…

When Victoria Brown, L.F. Parker Professor of History, became a grandmother in 2007, she set out to read a history on grandmothers in America — and found there wasn’t one. “There…

On Tuesday, Nov. 20, Taylor — a 5'10" biochemistry major from Black River Falls, Wisc. — shattered the NCAA scoring record in a basketball game against Faith Baptist Bible College, of Ankeny, Iowa…

When George Drake ’56 was a student at Grinnell, he didn’t give much thought to the fact that his female peers couldn’t play sports. “The women watched,…

Argentine journalist Rodolfo Walsh spent his last minutes alive on March 25, 1977, in a gory shootout with military thugs in front of his home. The day before, he had sent a letter to newspapers,…

Peter Kranz ’63 hadn’t returned to Grinnell since he graduated. An associate professor of psychology at the University of Texas-Pan American, Kranz wanted to visit campus — and…

“I’ve always been intoxicated with books,” says Harold Kasimow, professor emeritus of religious studies, who was hired by the College in 1972 to help establish its Religious…

“Your services are wonderful.” “Campus staff … are all very helpful and pleasant.” “Top notch … cannot think of one [experience] in particular that was the ‘best.’” “It was all very good — the…