Following an extensive research and documentation process, the Grinnell Historic Preservation Commission, the Grinnell Historic Neighborhood Association, and additional volunteers received good news in December of 2008: Their efforts to put the North Grinnell Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places had been successful. This area is made up of a 3.5 by 5-block rectangle bordered by Park Street, 6th Avenue, West Street, and 11th Avenue (Map 1).

This study was interesting to examine how identity is tied to place. Positioned in the minds of those that give it meaning, “sense of place issues in a stream of symbolically drawn particulars-the visible particulars of local topographies, the personal particulars of biographical associations, and the notional particulars of socially given systems of thought” (Basso 1996:144). In other words, movement within a landscape will assign meaning to different places in that area.

Explores issues of identity formation at Grinnell College during the years 2007-2010 during which time several homophobic incidents took place.

Presentation of research done for Mentored Advanced Project (MAP)in Anthropology on self-governance at Grinnell College

Alumni memories of Grinnell College reveal the importance of social spaces and the centrality of the people at Grinnell to creating a sense of place.

An examination of the Forum and JRC grills using interviews and GIS data suggests that both architecture and experience are important and interrelated factors that shape perceptions of atmosphere, with experience playing a particularly influential role for people who have memories that they associate with place

While the depth of a room in a building has often been found to lead to reduced interaction, this was not the case in Noyce Science Center in May, 2009. Facilities available to students were important to room use, and corresponded, in part, to student opinion on study preferences. While study areas separated the science majors, they did not exclude non-majors and underclassmen. In fact, more non-science-majors use study areas in Noyce than do science majors, though science majors spend more time in these.