How We Write About Reproductive Failure

Jul 11, 2024
Gina Schlesselman-Tarango, associate professor and science librarian, traveled to Harvard archives for her research studying the evolution of feminist conversations around fertility and miscarriage.
Professor Charlote Christensen in class with electrical current visible in the foreground during and experiment

Christensen named a Scialog® Fellow to study the Legacy Survey of Space and Time

Jul 11, 2024
Charlotte Christensen, associate professor of physics at Grinnell College, has been named a Scialog® Fellow.
Map showing Grinnell's location in Iowa

Falling into Place

Jul 10, 2024
A new Grinnell course, Historical Landscapes of Grinnell, encourages students to explore local history and build connections in the community.
A line of students trek uphill through lush foliage in the Brazilian countryside. The sky is blue and dotted with clouds.

Bittersweet: A Global Pursuit of Sugar’s Past

Jul 09, 2024
Traveling to Cuba, Louisiana, and Brazil, 15 Grinnellians spent a semester studying the colonial legacy of sugar production.
A point of view of pink flowers from the group up.

Department of Mathematics and Statistics Honors Five Outstanding Students

Jul 02, 2024
Over commencement weekend, mathematics and statistics faculty announced the winners of their annual departmental prizes: Isidora Bailly-Hall ’24, Kate Bartz ’25, Samantha Hall '24, Hyeyun Jung ’25, and Lilli Lewis ’25.
tent at farmers market

Market Science Program: Engaging the Community Through Research

Jun 18, 2024
This program, spearheaded by Grinnell summer-research students and their faculty mentors within the Science Division, brings scientific research directly to the Grinnell Farmer’s Market.
A black man with glasses resting atop his head peers through a microscope in a dark room.

Lafontant Wins Fulbright Scholar Grant to Sri Lanka

Jun 13, 2024
Pascal Lafontant, professor of biology, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar Grant to conduct developmental biology research in Sri Lanka during the 2024-25 academic year.
students and Jai standing in global kitchen

Applications Now Open for Fall 2025 Social Innovator in Residence Program

Jun 14, 2024
Through the program, students will have the chance to engage with inspiring leaders who are making an enduring difference in the world, fostering interdisciplinary creativity, and promoting civic engagement and systemic change. Applications open until Aug. 14, 2024. 
Looking out the front window of a jeep on a game drive, with a young woman sitting in the front seat.

From Savanna to Permafrost: GLP Students Track the Origins of Disease

May 31, 2024
Students in the Spring 2024 Global Learning Program Course Emerging Infectious Diseases traveled to South Africa and Alaska to conduct fieldwork at the forefront of disease ecology.
A professor and a male student discuss fluorescent microscopy images pulled up on a laboratory computer.

Team Effort: Five Grinnellians Co-Author Paper on the Zebrafish Liver

May 28, 2024
What began as a summer side project in 2020 grew into a yearslong collaborative study in the Lafontant laboratory. Now, Lafontant, professor of biology, is proud to have his name listed after not one, but four, Grinnell alums on a paper published in Zebrafish.

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