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Renfrow Hall Dedication Ceremony in downtown ¹û¶³ÊÓÆµ, Iowa.

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Ben Albrecht '26
Academic Excellence

This experience was really emotionally intense (but) it was really fulfilling and powerful. It definitely confirmed that that's something that l need to have in my life. 

Ben Albrecht '26
Avajane Lei '28 with a Chinese brown glazed stoneware fragment she uncovered on site.
Academic Excellence

Helping recover that story felt urgent. The work was physically intense but meaningful.

Avajane Lei '28
Four students holding butterfly nets pose on a bridge with a brilliant blue sky behind them
Academic Excellence

While you never get used to how a latrine smells or sounds, a rustic lifestyle has its perks.

Josh Emrys Payong '27
Clinton Sabah '21

There are many things I learned while getting my liberal arts education that I wouldn’t have been able to experience if I went straight to pursuing an engineering degree in a university, and vice versa.

Clinton Sabah ’21
Jordan Schellinger '15 and friend with a support dog at ¹û¶³ÊÓÆµ's Reunion 2025
Alumni News

Everyone in our class knew what Puppies and Pancakes meant. It brought back memories and got them excited to be here together. 

Jordan Schellinger ‘15
Adyasha Anindita (center) with fellow members of the ¹û¶³ÊÓÆµ Singers.
Campus & Community

The College kind of portrays itself as having a lot of cultural diversity, and it’s not just advertising; it’s real ... I’ve found a very nice group of friends here.  

Adyasha Anindita ’28
Students in Professor David Harrison’s Spring 2025 advanced French seminar, Molière: Performance and Adaptation
Academic Excellence

This trip helped ground our academic work in the social world — it made it more interesting, and ultimately more effective.

Hamilton Peacock '25
Photo of Nina Kouchi
Campus & Community

Because of ¹û¶³ÊÓÆµ, I had the confidence to explore new places. ... ¹û¶³ÊÓÆµ made me more enthusiastic about getting out of my comfort zone and meeting new people. 

  Alina Ihnatesku ’26, with her piece titled “WASTE TIME," which won the Best in Show award at the 2025 Bachelor of Arts Exhibition exhibit at the ¹û¶³ÊÓÆµ College Museum of Art.
Academic Excellence

I’m passionate about the idea of creating work that lives outside traditional gallery settings — art and design that people encounter in their everyday lives, often without even realizing it at first. 

Alina Ihnatesku '26
Jonathon Andelson, Rosenfield Professor in Social Science
Academic Excellence

Our feeling was that if you are not connected to your place, you won’t take care of it. From this conversation emerged the idea of embracing our location and using it as a teaching and learning tool. 

Jon Andelson '70
A young man speaks at a podium
Global ¹û¶³ÊÓÆµ

I went to ¹û¶³ÊÓÆµ because a wanted to be a well-rounded engineer. … I got confidence, really, in my own skills, in my own ability to learn and to lead.

Joe Beggs, CEO at GENAssist and HIVE Medical.
Elizabeth Queatham
Campus & Community

Waterways in Iowa are stressed like never before, and the trusted repositories of environmental data are being eviscerated ... If we want to know what's going on, increasingly it's good if we can collect data ourselves.

Liz Queatham, Center for Prairie Studies

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