Feb 3, 2021
Beginning with the graduating class of 2021 Grinnell seniors will be able to apply for admission to the Tippie graduate program provided they meet certain requirements for GPA and course completion.
Center for Careers, Life, and Service News
Nov 19, 2020
Iowa Campus Compact assists higher education institutions in deepening their ability to improve community life and in educating students for civic and social responsibility.
Sep 3, 2020
Grinnell College is accepting nominations from across the globe for the 2021 Grinnell College Innovator for Social Justice Prize. The College awards the Grinnell Prize annually to individuals who show creativity, commitment and extraordinary accomplishment in effecting positive change.
Aug 14, 2020
How the Center for Careers, Life, and Service helped keep the summer internship experience available during the summer of 2020.
Jul 22, 2020
The first time I served meals for Grinnell College Students was on a dreary Saturday morning in April. My colleagues from the College’s Center for Careers, Life, and Service (CLS) and I delivered over 240 meals on that deserted and lonely campus. In my experience of uncertainty and change while navigating Grinnell, I was mesmerized by the new realities of an unknown world.
May 21, 2020
Four Grinnell seniors and two alumni were awarded Fulbright U.S. student grants for research/study and teaching English in 2020–21.
May 21, 2020
The Samuel Huntington Public Service Award provides a $15,000 stipend to graduating college seniors to pursue a meaningful public service activity. Frimpong will develop a youth entrepreneurship program in Gbulahagu, Ghana, that she named EntrepreYearn.
May 20, 2020
Alvarez will pursue graduate studies in global epidemiology leading to a Master of Public Health degree with the support from the Elsie M. Stouffer 1924 Fellowship.
Feb 27, 2020
For anyone looking for an opportunity to engage in some local community service, Connecting Grinnellians is an excellent student organization to consider.
Feb 3, 2020
A summer internship helped psychology major Ben Nguyen ’19 and math and economics double major Ridhika Agrawal ’20 earn co-author status on a recently published paper.
Center For Careers, Life, And Service Stories
Our social environment affects how we study other organisms. We often use the animal world as justification or examples for how humans should be, which is dangerous.
What is One Health? It’s “recognizing the interconnected relationships between human, animal, and environmental health and working together across those disciplines and sectors," says Griffith.
Conservation work needs individuals who can foster a mindset of interconnectedness.
You never know where your life is going to take you. So be open to possibilities that might open up.
I really appreciate that I went to school in a time when I learned to relate to the patient, professionally, socially, and personally.
The best work that we can do for the environment, for nature and wildlife, and for each other, is get involved with the local communities because that is where the impact of our work can be seen.