Selected Stories

For Inside Climate News: In the state with the second-highest cancer rate in the nation, the legislation would have made it harder for residents to sue pesticide companies for illnesses linked to their products.

For Inside Climate News: Intense weather left farmers with small harvests in 2024—and warnings about soil resilience.

For Inside Climate News: Cuts to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service could unintentionally thwart efforts to control populations of the destructive sea lamprey.

For Inside Climate News: As one of its first acts, the Trump administration removed the online data tool used to allocate money to environmental justice communities. In two days, a coalition of data scientists had restored it on an independent internet domain.

Our memory of drought — and climate change — is fleeting.

For MIT KSJ: The host of the award-winning 2020 podcast series, “Timber Wars,” Scott draws on environmental history as a powerful tool for generating empathy and awe.

For Rootstalk: For many, the coyote is a symbol of America’s wide-open spaces. So why is it appearing in our cities, our parks, our back yards? An essay about coyotes, change, and becoming unrooted.

For the Grinnell College Magazine. A thriving environmental field station on land that both teaches and inspires.

At Omni Ecosystems in Chicago, Michael Davenport is leading the movement to create green roofs that prioritize biodiversity.

Grinnell College students traveled to South Africa and Alaska to conduct fieldwork at the forefront of disease ecology.

Gina Schlesselman-Tarango spent two weeks at Harvard University archives studying how the conversation around fertility and miscarriage has evolved in influential texts written by and for women.

Anika Jane Beamer gives herself and readers a crash course in all things hail.

Molly MacInnes is developing an innovative silicon purification process for a cleaner, healthier Earth.

Grinnell data scientists are helping Iowa civil rights organizations shed light on trends in racially biased policing in the Des Moines area.

In the first in a series of stories about Mentored Advanced Projects from summer 2023, follow Katie Shermak as she models human visual imagination in order to build better artificial intelligence.

"You just can’t have results be the daily thing that’s keeping you going," Adriane Thompson learned during summer research with Ben DeRidder, professor of biology

Another story in the Summer MAP Series. Gracie Song jumped headfirst into laboratory research, using a tricky technique to study the structure of a mutated protein.

A summer research project brought Ioanna Giannakou into close contact with rats, studying the effects of early-life stress on their anxiety and depression levels.

Anika Jane Beamer sets out to get to know the turkey vultures that call Grinnell College home.

During her research sabbatical, Charvann Bailey joined forces with Doug Spitz ’78 at the University of Iowa. Together, the two biologists are uncovering a molecule to treat aggressive lung cancer.

As Iowa struggled to access COVID-19 PCR tests, Doane Chilcoat and his team at Corteva Agriscience stepped up to play a pivotal role.

In a paper published in Mathematics Magazine, mathematics faculty Marc Chamberland and Jeff Blanchard tell a uniquely Grinnell story of resilience and of intellectual curiosity applied for the greater good.