Staff council recognized the following staff members as the Spring 2025 Staff Council Grand Grinnellian Award winners. Each of the winners has demonstrated their commitment and dedication to the college by being an excellent performer in their duties while representing the core values of the institution and the mission of Grinnell College. 

Featured prominently on the first three episodes, Mary Zheng ’15 joins season 48 of Survivor.

Garcia, from St. Paul, MN, is among 37 students selected nationwide from 155 finalists from 41 partner schools to receive the $40,000 fellowship stipend. The program offers “college graduates of unusual promise a year of purposeful, independent exploration and international travel to enhance their capacity for resourcefulness, imagination, openness, and leadership and to foster their humane and effective participation in the world community.”

The band Butcher Brown will perform a concert in Herrick Chapel on the Grinnell College campus at 7:30 p.m. on March 27.

Highlights from the Grinnell College Museum of Art collection, with expert commentary from Associate Director Dan Strong.

The Grinnell Listening Project brings together College students and community members to listen and learn from one another in small group discussions. The dialogue sessions – which are facilitated by trained community members and students – are entering year two and have a number of goals, says Ryan Solomon, associate director of civic education and innovation for the Center for Careers, Life, and Service (CLS).

As an extension of the popular Five Questions series, the Office of Communications and Marketing is sitting down with key Grinnell leaders to get the latest information about important College initiatives. We asked Brad Lindberg, associate vice president of institutional initiatives and enrollment, to get the latest on Grinnbooks.