Julian Montalvo and Fredo Rivera in bright pink and green costume with island bound: an exercise in decolonizing drag, locust projects and 2022 in text

Fredo Rivera Wins WaveMaker Grant for Performance Art Project

Aug 15, 2022
The project draws upon a wide range of sources, including historical archives, cartography, the built environment, soundscapes, and contemporary visual cultures of the “postcolonial colony.” WaveMaker grants are part of a regional regranting program supported by the Warhol Foundation.
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Professor Clark Lindgren Receives the Society for Neuroscience's Award for Education in Neuroscience

Aug 11, 2022
Clark Lindgren, Patricia A. Johnson Professor of Neuroscience, has received the Society for Neuroscience's Award for Education in Neuroscience, recognizing individuals who have made outstanding contributions to neuroscience education and training.
Landscaping in front of HSSC including curving sidewalks, plantings, boulder seating and signage

Innovation Fund Awards for 2021-22

Aug 04, 2022
The Grinnell College Innovation Fund was created in 2012 to spur innovative ways of teaching and learning at the College through planning and pilot projects. Since its launch, the fund has provided support for promising ideas proposed by faculty, staff, and students for new approaches to teaching and scholarship, as well as student-initiated proposals that enrich campus life and learning in innovative ways.
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Umang Kamra ’22 Receives Baumann Essay Prize

Aug 02, 2022
Kamra, a class of 2022 graduate from New Delhi, Delhi, India, is a history major with a policy studies concentration. His essay, titled “Adivasis and the Two Faces of Violence: Emergence of the Postcolonial India State,” investigates the epistemic and physical harms committed against the Adivasis (tribes) of Chhotanagpur by the early postcolonial state.

Grace Duffy ’22 Receives Stouffer Fellowship for Graduate Studies

Aug 02, 2022
The fellowship is open to senior women who are fluent in French, Spanish, or Portuguese with plans for a career and graduate study in a public service field in Latin America and Latin American communities.
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Grinnell Prize Honors a Leader Empowering Women in India to be Agents of their own Mobility

Jul 27, 2022
Jai Bharathi’s social innovation work empowers women’s independence by offering them two- and three-wheeler drivers’ training and related livelihood opportunities.
Group of graduates in robes

Philanthropic Support for Grinnell College Reaches New Heights

Jul 21, 2022
Gifts helped provide students from different backgrounds access to Grinnell’s traditions of academic excellence, activism, and personal transformation.
Vicki Nolton, Assistant Director for Social Innovation Partnerships & Education, and Peter Drobac, Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship

Grinnell’s Inaugural Map the System Team Earns Third-Place Global Victory

Jul 12, 2022
The Grinnell Map the System team competed in the 2022 Map the System Global Final at Oxford University and finished in third place out of a field of 46 teams from around the world.

Montgomery Receives ASPB’s Gude Award

Jul 12, 2022
The American Society of Plant Biologists has presented the 2022 Adolph E. Gude Jr. Award to Grinnell College’s recently appointed Dean, Beronda Montgomery, for her achievements as a scholar, mentor, and communicator.

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