Spring 2024
In this Issue
![Students follow the road through prairie back to the EEC at sunset](http://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/magazine-feature-images/CERA_hero_2000X1125.jpg?itok=zbtlYPGl)
![several groups of people sit in the shade of a large oak tree on North Campus](http://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/STRATEGIC_hero_2000x1125.jpg?itok=iYvZPpEL)
![Vanessa Harris](http://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/Profile_Harris_975x455.jpg?itok=guaApmN9)
Harris received the prestigious Leaders for a New Chicago Award last summer for the profound impact that Harris’ organization has made for Chicago’s vast disability community.
![left to right: Gary Doernhoefer, Jed Melnick, and Amy Gernon](http://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/Profile_Doernhoefer%20Melnick%20Gernon_975x455.jpg?itok=kQzvj5K3)
Three Grinnell alumni, experts in alternative dispute resolution, joined other specialists to offer hands-on training in mediation and conflict resolution skills to students.
![On left, Miranda Thomas with a white rat and Regan Reedy with snake on right](http://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/magazine-feature-images/Profile_Thomas_975x455.jpg?itok=Sj20BhIf)
Thomas’ externship helped confirm her interest in veterinary medicine. Now she’s returned to the externship program as a mentor.
![Shuchi Kapila and Nicole Eikmeier](http://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/News_Endowed_Prof_975x455.jpg?itok=k_a8DJF_)
Two new endowed professors — Shuchi Kapila, professor of English, and Nicole Eikmeier, assistant professor of computer science — were announced last fall.
![Maggie Connolly, Lisa Eshun-Wilson, and Mikayla Findlay](http://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/magazine-feature-images/News_Wall%20Awards_975x455_0.jpg?itok=gWSy_wW5)
Four projects — developed by Maggie Connolly ’07, Smita S. ’08, Lisa Eshun-Wilson ’14, and Mikayla Findlay ’16 — were selected for the 2023 awards.
![A choir stand at the altar of Herrick Chapel in front of a nearly full audience](http://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/magazine-feature-images/News_Alumni%20Awards_975x455.jpg?itok=qtbSF1FM)
The Grinnell College Alumni Council has selected 13 outstanding Grinnellians to receive 2024 Alumni Awards.