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Kyla Miller `25 will serve as the 2024-2025 president of Grinnell’s Student Government Association (SGA) and Ziana Benjiman `25 will serve as the 2024-2025 SGA vice president of academic affairs after winning the executive cabinet and student initiatives election, held over March 11 and 12. Three student initiatives, “Noyce Art Landmarks,” “Massage Chairs and Bean...

Grinnell College’s Crys Moosman, of Driggs, has been awarded a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship for 2022–2023.

April 27, 2021 The Chamber is located inside of the Louis Sullivan Jewel Box Bank, one of Grinnells (and the midwests) most famous landmarks. Photo by Kaya Matsuura. By Shabana Gupta guptasha@grinnell.edu Businesses in Grinnell have faced a lot in the last year, from the pandemic and the subsequent lack of Grinnell College student customers to a derecho. Despite these obstacles, the town managed to retain almost all of its businesses, weathering the literal and metaphorical storms with a vari...

December 8, 2020 Celeste Kaspar 21, seen here in November of 2019, has been practicing her diving this fall. Photo contributed by Ted Schultz. Ben Mikek mikekben@grinnell.edu Even though athletic competition is on hold because of the pandemic, Grinnell’s swimming and diving teams continue to hold scaled down practices at the Bear Recreation and Athletic Center. Four times per week since Oct. 5, about 10 swimmers and a lone diver have been practicing in the Russell K. Osgood pool. “It’s b...