Organist Linda Bryant and student organists perform a creepy but fun Halloween concert at 9 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 31, in Herrick Chapel.

TEDxGrinnellCollege takes place from 1-5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 3, at Roberts Theatre in the Bucksbaum Center for the Arts.

Topics include favorability of president, legal immigration, opinions on NFL kneeling.

At 8 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 26, parents may begin registering their children for the fall session of the free Ignite Program, which will take place on campus Saturday, Nov. 17, for youngsters from prekindergarten through fourth grade.

Sebastian Braun, director of American Indian Studies at Iowa State University and a researcher who studies the Bakken oil boom in North Dakota and its impact on native and non-native communities and the environment, will speak on Tuesday, Oct. 30.

Burma native Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung, professor and chair of political science at University of Massachusetts, Lowell, will give a talk on Wednesday, Oct. 31, titled “MIND THE GAP: Responses to Genocide in Myanmar.”

Chad Darby ’88 and Jennifer Kulik ’94 each receive $30,000 to build school greenhouse and start an intergenerational program.

Students study controversial writers, critics, and activists during the 1960s through the 1980s who have been mostly or entirely erased from feminist history in this capstone course.

The Ladies Education Society (LES), founded in 1862, has awarded scholarships to six seniors on the basis of academic excellence, character, leadership, and financial need.

 

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