Spring 2021

Contact:

In this Issue

Sharene Gould Dulabaum ’22 is the winner of the College’s 2020 SPARK Challenge.

Madison Wardlaw ’20 won a highly competitive Woodrow Wilson Pennsylvania Teaching
Fellowship for 2020–21.

Grinnell College received the award from the Iowa Architectural Foundation (IAF).

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.

Alexander McLean, founder and director general of Justice Defenders, was selected to receive the 2020 Grinnell College Innovator for Social Justice Prize.

Huff Fund will let students pursue internship experiences with arts and nonprofit organizations.

In November, the College announced that it would eliminate student loans in financial aid packages and replace them with scholarships. This initiative, unanimously endorsed by the Board of Trustees and effective in the fall of 2021 for all new and continuing students, was intended to reduce the...

About 10 years ago, George Drake ’56 said tutorial topics should be fun, a comment that stuck and caused me to choose psychology of humor for the topic of my seventh tutorial in 2015. I knew very little about humor, as it rarely appears in textbooks for introductory psychology...