Dear Grinnell alumni and families,

We write in community with you as Grinnellians with the hope that you are in community where you are, with mourning for the anguish that all impacted…

After a year of travel through six countries, Crys Moosman ’21 returned to Grinnell to share what they learned during their Watson Fellowship journey.

I write to you within the context of these very challenging times to provide recourse and resources for your well-being and to recall our stewardship of our community and of each other. I write especially to Grinnell students, wanting you to know how very much your faculty and staff care about you, as they live in these times with you.

JC Lopez answers a few questions about his life, work, and his Grinnell experience so far.

"You just can’t have results be the daily thing that’s keeping you going," Adriane Thompson ’24 learned during summer MAP research with Ben DeRidder, professor of biology.

A summer MAP brought Ioanna Giannakou ’24 into close contact with rats, studying the effects of early-life stress on their anxiety and depression levels.

Another story in the Summer MAP Series. Gracie Song ’25 jumped headfirst into laboratory research, using a tricky technique to study the structure of a mutated protein.

In the first in a series of stories about Mentored Advanced Projects from summer 2023, follow Katie Shermak ’25 as she models human visual imagination in order to build better artificial intelligence.

Students Kelly Banfield ’24, Philomena Frasca ‘25, Celia Meagher ‘24, and Stella Lowery ‘24 spent their summer vacation experimenting with the coolest camera brands and films alongside Professor and artist Andrew Kaufman.

The popular HBO television series “Succession” is making its mark in a Grinnell classroom, encouraging students to examine its allusions to renowned artworks, literature, and music.