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The Grinnell Education Partnership team received the award for their efforts in support of students throughout the community and collectively making a difference in supporting student experiences through a balanced program approach.   

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.”

Jillian Peterson '03 her new book, which examines the phenomenon of mass shootings in America and is an urgent call to implement evidence-based strategies to stop these tragedies in this Authors and Artists Podcast episode.

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.

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.

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.

Writers@Grinnell welcomes stand-up comedian, TV writer, and fiction writer Amy Silverberg, Tues. Nov. 1, 8 p.m., Rosenfield Center, Room 101.

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.

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.