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Caleb Elfenbein is Associate Professor in the Departments of History and Religious Studies at Grinnell College, where he is also Director of the Center for the Humanities. His work explores religion, community, public life, and human welfare in different times and places. He has published on these themes as they relate to community life in Egypt, South Asia, and the United States. He is author of Fear in Your Heart: What Islamophobia Can Tell Us about Public Life in Today’s America (NYU Press) and is editor of MappingIslamophobia.org.
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May 14, 2021
Sarah Beisner (left) and Destiny Magnett (right), both 22, are the first Grinnell students to be named Truman Scholars since 2017. Photos contributed by Grinnell College and Destiny Magnett.
By Lucia Cheng
chengluc@grinnell.edu
Destiny Magnett and Sarah Beisner, both `22, have been named Truman Scholars after a record number of national applicants, the first Grinnell students to receive the prestigious award for public service and leadership
since 2017. Magnett will use the award to obtain a master’s degree in theological studies, while Beisner intends to pursue a master’s in social work focusing on child welfare policies.
The Truman Foundation created this scholarship in 1975 to help fund college graduates’ future studies, offering a grant of $30,000 for those committed to attending graduate school in government or the public service sector – broadly defined on purpose, according to Magnett, to allow for the broadest amount of impact in communities.
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February 25, 2021
The HSSC interior will eventually feature a total of 12 new names inscribed on the walls of the enclosed Alumni Recitation Hall. Photo by Andrew Tucker.
By Eva Hill
hilleva@grinnell.edu
Five new names to be inscribed on the interior walls of the Humanities and Social Studies Center (HSSC) were released to the Grinnell College public today. The upcoming inscriptions will honor James Baldwin, Steve Biko, Octavia Butler, Rachel Carson and Frida Kahlo.
The five new plaques will join the inaugural name, that of Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison, inscribed in spring 2020. Morrison’s name was chosen by former Grinnell College President Raynard Kington who initiated the project. The inscribed plaques form a dialogue with a much older set of honorific inscriptions on the outside of Carnegie Hall, now part of the modern HSSC, which list the names of classical theorists and artists (Homer, Dante and Plato frame the building’s street-facing entrance).