Winter 2018
In this Issue
![Liberal Arts Map Illustration](https://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/magazine-feature-images/Liberal%20Arts%20Map%20Illo-02%20WEB_0.jpg?itok=Wbzmfn5N)
![Tor Erickson ’01 and Isabella Kugel ’20 stand in front of wood slabs that were made into a desk that now greets visitors in the new Admission and Student Financial Services center.](https://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/magazine-feature-images/TOR_DSC_0399%20WEB.jpg?itok=EddZHAqb)
From flowering crabapples to sycamores, birches, and firs, the trees dotting Grinnell’s campus have served as familiar landmarks — as well as beloved spots to climb, make art, and meet for class — for generations of Grinnell students.
So when 31 trees between Alumni Recitation Hall (ARH...
![Monessa Cummins, associate professor of classics, and Jiayun Chen ’19, a classics and art history double major, examine a marble Roman portrait head, believed to be from the 1st century, in the print study room of the Burling Library.](https://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/magazine-feature-images/20181009.monessa.sculpture.165%20WEB.jpg?itok=zI20nfxy)
![Students in Lee Running, Associate Professor of Art, drawing class use observational drawing techniques during a trip to the Conrad Evironmental Research Area](https://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/magazine-feature-images/20171102.art_.running.cera083%20WEB.jpg?itok=TzqEkKg_)
![Students dancing at ISO Cultural evening in the Harris center.](https://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/20170422.isoculturalnightDSCF7453_WEB.jpg?itok=enO1KL6j)
As members of the Alumni Council’s 2017–18 Diversity and Inclusion Committee, Saurabh Saraf ’05, Howie Schein ’66, and I agreed to tackle the challenge of connecting traditionally marginalized students with alumni. We were assisted by Sarah Smith-Benanti, assistant director of alumni and donor...
![Kaydi-Ann works with a colleague on the computer](https://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/Kaydi-Ann3%20WEB.jpg?itok=OBGBYu2O)
“My whole life I said to myself, ‘I will not teach,’” says Kaydi-Ann Newsome ’14, an economics major from Jamaica. “I remember my chemistry teacher in year nine saying to me, ‘You know, one day you’re going to be a teacher.’ I was just like, ‘No, sir. It’s not going to happen. It’s just not...
![Anneke Walker Nagao ’87 selfie](https://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/P1000779%20WEB.jpg?itok=VXo1woHy)
“From the minute I was first introduced to Japanese in elementary school, my life changed,” says Anneke Walker Nagao ’87. “My whole life revolves around that moment.”
![Iowa landscape at CERA](https://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/20160418.cera_.artclass213%20WEB.jpg?itok=4ol1lRFq)
If you drive to Grinnell on Interstate 80, you might be inclined to think Iowa’s economy is heavily agriculture-based. Your eyes might deceive you, says Jack Mutti, professor emeritus of economics.
![Students in classroom listening](https://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/magazine-feature-images/ClassOne%20WEB.jpg?itok=NjkdIk8B)
Megan Crawford, assistant dean and director of advising and exploration, shares the ways that the Center for Careers, Life, and Service prepares students for life beyond graduation.
![Two students with plants grown in greenhouse](https://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/Wall_Awards_WEB_0.jpg?itok=Icwne4cb)