One March morning, Harv Ames heard a thump come from outside the bedroom window of his Hancock home. Then there was another.It didn’t sound like the blue jays that had been pecking at the decorative roof underneath his second story window for days on.
McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center to Co-Coordinate Community Science Climate Change Project
The McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center will co-coordinate a community science investigation of extreme heat in New Hampshire. Partnering in New Hampshire with the League of Conservation Voters and Harris Center for Conservation Education, among others, the nation-wide project is led by the Boston Museum of Science, Northeastern University, SciStarter, and Arizona State University and funded by NOAA. The McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center will be recruiting community scientists to record data on local temperatures and how those temperatures have impacted daily activities over the summer. Community members will also have the option to participate in an online national forum focused on extreme heat hosted by the Boston Museum of Science as well as a New Hampshire forum following data collection.
May 11, 2021
A student-led initiative will fill in an area of Mac Field with native prairie plants. Photo by Kaya Matsuura.
By MJ Old
oldmadel@grinnell.edu
A patch of tallgrass prairie is coming to North Campus. Since the beginning of spring, a group of students supported by the Center for Prairie Studies has planned to replace the sod on a patch of Mac Field, the triangle where the sidewalks meet outside of Harris Center, with 6,200 prairie plants.
“The fact that it’s surrounded on all sides by sidewalk makes it easier to maintain and prevent invasive species from getting up inside the prairie,” said Tommy Hexter `21, who helped lead the project.
By Shabana Gupta
guptasha@grinnell.edu
Grinnell College’s commencement ceremony will occur in person and outdoors on the Rosenbloom Football Field this year on May 28. Fourth years will be able to bring two guests with them, and all attendees will be required to be socially distanced. The ceremony will be
livestreamed for fourth years not attending the ceremony in person and the general Grinnell community.
Students expressed excitement for the ceremony as well as apprehension for being around so many people at once for the first time in over a year.
Linnet Adams `21 said that she expects commencement to feel spaced out with less of an excited atmosphere compared to previous years. “Even though there’s a lot of seniors on campus I still think it’s going to be not as populated as we want it to be,” she said. Adams said she was apprehensive about each student having two guests when the decision was first announced, but now she plans to embrace it by inviting both of her
Summer camps navigating a return after lost year
Fun in the sun at a Harris Center summer camp in 2018. This year’s summer camps will see smaller groups and some COVID restrictions, like masks, but will otherwise operate as normal when possible. Courtesy
Published: 5/6/2021 4:18:45 PM
This time last year, camp directors were unsure of how summer camp could move forward – or if they’d even be allowed to.
In the spring of 2020, schools were forced into remote learning, people were staying home and away from others, and not much was known about COVID-19 – how it spread, what its effects were on children. And in the end, all the unknowns, what-ifs and strict guidelines in place forced many camp directors to shut down for the season.