Grinnell College News

You know, the fictional town of public radio's Garrison Keillor, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.

Grinnell College baseball player Mike Nodzenski '12 has received several honors over his career, and now he has collected one of the biggest.

Gap years are all the rage, and the rationales are many: Take a year off between high school and college to work, travel, learn a language or skill, or volunteer.

Sonnet Ludwig, now a student at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Fla., takes the National Outdoor Leadership School's sea kayaking course in 2010 in Nordland, Norway.

As many parents know, April can be the cruelest month, breeding college rejection letters from across the land.

Gap years are all the rage, and the rationales are many: Take a year off between high school and college to work, travel, learn a language or skill, or volunteer.

Grinnell College's Mike Nodzenski '12 and Ben Pope '12 have earned Rawlings/ABCA All-Central Region Team honors.

Natalie McGill/The Gazette Fairmount Heights High School senior Daja Tyree, 18, of Capitol Heights received a four-year scholarship to Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa, through the Posse Foundation.

As many parents know, April can be the cruelest month, breeding college rejection letters from across the land.

Gap years are all the rage, and the rationales are many: Take a year off between high school and college to work, travel, learn a language or skill, or volunteer.

Iowa State University graduate Jonathan Eimer was one of five undergraduate artists from four Iowa colleges and universities selected for the 2011 Grinnell Artist Residency's Iowa Emerging Artist Residency, June 19 to July 16, 2011.

Record-setting Grinnell College diver Kelly Bruce '12 has been named to the Capital One Academic All-District At-Large First Team for the 2011-12 campaign.

This 2010 photo provided by the National Outdoor Leadership School shows Sonnet Ludwig, now a student at Eckerd College in St.

For the third season in a row, Grinnell College's Tim Hollibaugh has been named the Midwest Conference South Division Baseball Coach of the Year.

After months in limbo, Morgan Lundblad recently opened her long-awaited e-mail from Harvard University to find only more uncertainty.

Gap years are all the rage, and the rationales are many: Take a year off between high school and college to work, travel, learn a language or skill, or volunteer.

He still vividly remembers being a 15-year-old in Grinnell College's kitchen, scrubbing dishes to pay for his college education, hoping he could scrounge up a few extra dollars to pay for more than one meal a day.

Garfield County Commissioner John Martin, left, recognized local historian Carleton Hubbard during Tuesday's groundbreaking ceremony for the Glenwood Springs Branch Library.

If the business leaders gathered for the Champions for Education conference at TPC Sawgrass Tuesday morning needed further convincing on the importance of education, Thomas Friedman certainly offered a compelling case.

She was born March 22, 1918, in Atlantic to Henry Scott and Margaret Linn. Ruth was united in marriage in Atlantic on June 19, 1949, to Robert J. Hansen.