Alumni are nominated for Grinnell College’s Alumni Awards for many reasons. Below are a few of the reasons their supporters offered.
Summer 2018
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![Grinnell Prize medal](http://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/Prize%201.png?itok=l91-ZmtB)
Grinnell College awards $100,000
Grinnell Prize to French innovator
![Campus Architecture](http://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/20170428.spring.DSCF9473%20WEB.jpg?itok=8k0BHIJT)
9 faculty awarded tenure and promoted, 4 faculty promoted to full professor
![Watson slam crowd in the grill](http://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/20180420.waston.slam0472%20WEB.jpg?itok=eGFpp804)
Grinnell College helped celebrate the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship’s 50th anniversary in 2018 by inviting Grinnell’s Watson alumni to campus.
![Campus Picnic](http://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/20170823.campus.picnic256%20web.jpg?itok=k2OkiiWK)
Sarah Moschenross, dean of students at Grinnell College since 2015, is being promoted to associate vice president for student affairs at the College this summer.
![Campus at dusk](http://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/20151209sunset155%20WEB.jpg?itok=GUcmMNKK)
Catherine Hackett Renner joined Grinnell College in early April as associate vice president for analytic support and institutional research.
![Construction on the Humanities and Social Studies Center](http://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/20180426.trustee.hssc_.tour148%20WEB.jpg?itok=1F1Q-woM)
The Humanities and Social Studies Center (HSSC) is still under construction, but it has already transformed the look of campus. We asked a few faculty members what they're anticipating about it. Here's one perspective.
![Scarlet jumping and high diving student](http://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/20180405.dar_.sgbd0242%20WEB.jpg?itok=xfk56aR8)
As part of the April 5 Scarlet & Give Back Day, Grinnell’s annual 24-hour giving challenge, alumni classes competed against each other for the honor of having an office named after their class in the new Humanities and Social Studies Center.
![Celina Karp Biniaz ’52 makes the 2018 commencement speech](http://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/1D3A6852%20WEB.jpg?itok=hyXKl4PY)
"Whatever path you take, or goals you pursue, please use your knowledge and skills well--to fight for the things you care about, knowing that even one person can make a difference."
![Daniel Malarkey headshot](http://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/Daniel%20Malarkey%20WEB.jpg?itok=IqE34YCV)
Everyone has a memory from Grinnell College where they couldn’t stop laughing, says Daniel Malarkey ’08.