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Title: In Support of Education: Alumni Donations to Special Collections and Archives
Description: Special Collections and Archives exhibit brochure. Displayed in Burling Gallery, Summer 2016.
Date Created: 2016
PID: grinnell:17783

Title: Investigations: a Handbook for Biology Courses
Description: The goal of this handbook is to communicate to students the opportunities they have in the Departments of Biology and Chemistry, as well as the expectations of their work in Grinnell College courses. Because of the close interaction between courses required for the Biology, Chemistry and Biological Chemistry majors, we recognize the need to speak in one voice about our approaches to teaching science. While you will find many differences between courses in our departments, we hope you will recognize and learn the common skills that are fundamental to good scientific understanding and practice.
Date Created: 2016
PID: grinnell:19112

Title: LU Matrix Decompositions., New Formulas from LU Matrix Decomposition
Description: The LU decomposition is a standard matrix factorization which we use to find new formulas in pure mathematics.
Date Created: 2016
PID: grinnell:13268

Title: Muslim Public Intellectuals: Revealing Conditional Participation Through Circulation
Description: Examines the ways that dominants publics such as religion exist in America and create conditional participation for identities like Muslim Americans.
Date Created: 2016
PID: grinnell:18957

Title: Northern Designs: British Science, Imperialism, and Improvement at the Dawn of the Anthropocene
Description: This essay explores the eighteenth-century campaigns in Britain to develop a new kind of imperial economy in the northern reaches of the Atlantic world that would focus less on settler colonies and agriculture, and more on the extraction of minerals, metals, and energy to fuel the burgeoning industrial sectors of England. These efforts reveal how new visions of enlightened progress emerged in the 18th and 19th century that imagined a world filled with endless natural resources capable of being tapped by those with the scientific and administrative know-how to do so.
Date Created: 2016
PID: grinnell:17947

Title: Obituaries of Grinnell Civil War Veterans: Value Race and Identity in Small Town Iowa
Description: Project examining how Grinnell, Iowa remembered its Civil War veterans, through the content and language of obituaries written in the Grinnell Herald.
Date Created: 2016
PID: grinnell:18758

Title: One Second
Description: Handmade artist's book (8 pages) with screen printed band. Compilation of one-second laser-engraved field recordings taken on the Grinnell College campus and in downtown Grinnell with additional text debossed into each page.
Date Created: 2016
PID: grinnell:18964

Title: South of the Confederacy: Confederate Symbols in Argentine Clothing and the Erasure of History.
Description: The recent globalization of fashion has transmitted not only the American Confederate flag to other countries, but also the debate surrounding its place in popular culture. This paper investigates the case study of COOK, a popular Argentine clothing company that prominently features the Confederate flag in its logo and branding.
Date Created: 2016
PID: grinnell:18767

Title: Staff Recognition Brunch, Thursday, May 26, 2016, Marketplace, Joe Rosenfield '25 Center, Welcome to the Staff Recognition Brunch
Description: Program from the annual Staff Recognition Brunch where staff are honored for each five year milestone of service. 2016 had 56 staff members with 5 to 40 years of service.
Date Created: 2016
PID: grinnell:16997

Title: Stormwater and Landscaping on Grinnell College's Campus
Description: Explores surface runoff as it has been increasing in quantity and decreasing in quality as more land is converted into impermeable surface.
Date Created: 2016
PID: grinnell:13258