Campus News
![Team congratulating Brock Weirather on perfect game](http://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/CN-20210425.perfect.game_.celebration.008.jpg?itok=2wZQTpw6)
![Close up of graduates hands as they stand side-by-side, one holding a diploma](http://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/tenured%20faculty%20feature%20975x455.jpg?itok=tLUeliIC)
![Commencement Speaker Kesho Scott kicking up a leg](http://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/CN-20210528.commencement.1050_0.jpg?itok=35hUKkSO)
Kesho Scott drew upon the symbolism in Frank Baum's classic "The Wizard of Oz," during her inspiring Commencement address.
![Logo reads Scarlet & Give Back Day, together we are greater, with squirrel and acorn graphic](http://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/CN-SGBD_lockup%20975x455.jpg?itok=m2GaG6cM)
Grinnell received 1,954 gifts and raised $1,078,042 to help ensure current and future generations of students enjoy the numerous benefits of a Grinnell education.
![Scarlet and tan notebook reads Grinnell College Renion 2021 remote and reimagined](http://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/CN-Reunion-notebook.jpg?itok=JSm0aLIz)
The College has been celebrating reunions for more than 140 years — and this year Grinnell hosted its first virtual Reunion June 3–10.
![John Garrison](http://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/magazine-feature-images/CN-John%20Garrison%20975x455%20%281%29.jpg?itok=7rGm9eQ9)
![Students wearing PPE walking outside on a snowy day](http://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/magazine-feature-images/CN-students.jpg?itok=W53P2-ip)
Class of 2024 students were given the opportunity to live on campus during the first spring term that began Feb. 1.
![Kaitlin Alsofrom ’10 (left) and Mariam Asaad ’14 Kaitlin Alsofrom ’10 (left) and Mariam Asaad ’14](http://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/Campus_Wall_975x455.jpg?itok=29y5VnMS)
Kaitlin Alsofrom ’10 (left) and Mariam Asaad ’14 (right) received Grinnell’s 2020 Joseph F. Wall ’41 Alumni Service Awards.
![Sharene Gould Dulabaum ’22](http://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/Campus_Spark.jpg?itok=LjphY3Dt)
Sharene Gould Dulabaum ’22 is the winner of the College’s 2020 SPARK Challenge.
![Madison Wardlaw ’20](http://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/Campus_chemistry_975x455.jpg?itok=hPyVGj7l)
Madison Wardlaw ’20 won a highly competitive Woodrow Wilson Pennsylvania Teaching
Fellowship for 2020–21.
![Humanities and Social Sciences Center and courtyard lit up at dusk](http://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/Campus_HSSC_975x455.jpg?itok=peA35L2O)
Grinnell College received the award from the Iowa Architectural Foundation (IAF).
![Students in PPE sitting around an outdoor table with their laptops](http://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/Campus_students%20outside_975x455.jpg?itok=C2ZlYqwr)
In response to the financial hardship that many families are experiencing because of the pandemic, Grinnell will eliminate student loans in financial aid packages and replace them with scholarships.