The Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program is designed to support and advance underrepresented students, but it is leaving a distinct mark on the professors who mentor them as well.
Spring 2020
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![Sarah Purcell with students in Iowa Room](https://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/iowa.room_.purcell.195.jpg?itok=xq4uFl1U)
How a mentor can make a difference in a student’s life — just ask Sarah Purcell ’92
![Author signing copy of Mentor](https://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/magazine-feature-images/Mentor-Launch-Event--095.jpg?itok=i89vxJge)
A glimpse into his wide-ranging influence
![Multicultural Reunion](https://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/magazine-feature-images/multicultural.reunion.2.jpg?itok=dzEXM2wC)
Multicultural Reunion seeks to establish a sense of inclusion among alumni by celebrating the strength we find in our overlapping personal, cultural, spiritual, and social identities.
![Detail of green map of campus](https://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/map2-01.png?itok=GiDKx6Im)
Many sustainability efforts by the College are in plain sight while others are literally buried, including four geothermal well fields. Find where most efforts take place.
![Zoé Strecker, Juan Castaño, Juan Carlos Pérez Borja](https://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/WallAward2019.jpg?itok=EsbmKe79)
Alumni recipients of the 2019 Joseph F. Wall ’41 Alumni Service Awards have ambitious plans for their $35,000 awards.
![detail from Pamela Greenblatt Crocket's Anchovy Dance](https://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/detail-Crockett_Anchovy_Dance.png?itok=teaPEmb2)
April 3–July 31: At the Grinnell College Museum of Art
![Player in Grinnell College football helmet](https://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/magazine-feature-images/football.jpg?itok=SUMh0qu5)
In October, Grinnell College withdrew its football team from competitive play, forfeiting the rest of the season, to protect the health and safety of the student-athletes.
For several years, President Raynard S. Kington and Andy Hamilton ’85, director of...
![Sheryl Walter ’78 presenting at the campaign event in Washington, D.C.](https://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/magazine-feature-images/walterscampaign.jpg?itok=pfEo7BEM)
Personal experience leads Grinnell trustee to support mental health services for students