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I just spent 90 minutes watching the web rebroadcast of "Inside the Admissions Office," a conversation with top admissions officers from eight highly regarded colleges and universities: Bryn Mawr College , Grinnell College , Marquette University , Princeton University , University of Pennsylvania , University of Vermont , Wesleyan University and ...

Despite trends suggesting a move away from early admissions spearheaded by several name universities including UVA , Harvard , and Princeton , this year's applicant pool appears determined to get a few decisions in hand before the start of the New Year.

Abstract Studies of learning in school settings indicate that many students frame activities in science classes as the production of answers for the teacher or test, rather than as making new sense of the natural world.

Former Israeli Ambassador Asher Naim will describe his role in the 1991 Operation Solomon on Monday, Nov.

The Grinnell College Department of Theatre and Dance will present Shakespeare's 1600 romantic comedy “As You Like It” Friday through Sunday in Roberts Theatre in the Bucksbaum Center for the Arts at Grinnell College.

Susan Nona Garcia, nee Bertram, 70, passed away Nov. 11, 2009, in Redlands, Calif., surrounded by family.

The five finalists for the opening administrator position at Roosevelt General Hospital hail from around the country, including two from the local area, and have differing types of experience.

Register reporter MIKE KILEN tells the stories of Iowans across the state. Contact him at mkilen@dmreg.com Harold Kasimow lived in an underground hole in complete darkness for 19 months and five days.

David Sloan Wilson will present “Evolving the City: Using Evolutionary Theory to Understand and Improve the Human Condition” at the Scholars' Convocation at 11 a.m. Thursday, Nov.

We've got book and film news his week. Retired Principal Financial Group chief Barry Griswell has begun work on a book that will be based on a diary kept by his mother, June, in 1940, when she was 16.

Army National Guard Pvt. William C. Harris has graduated from infantryman one station unit training at Fort Benning, Columbus, Ga.

The St. Lawrence String Quartet will perform on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in Herrick Chapel on the Grinnell College campus.

Nearly 100 students from Newton, Pella, Oskaloosa and Ottumwa performed on Saturday at the Newton Senior High School Center for Performance.

Here is one last question that the Record should ask about the 2009 Investment Report.

Posted on Oct 23, 2009 by Cindy Hadish . Coe College junior Clarissa Thomas, a biology and psychology major from Chippewa Falls, MN, stands in the greenhouse area of Coe's EcoHouse in Cedar Rapids on Tuesday, October 20, 2009.

Not that long ago, a vegan meal at many of the country's colleges consisted of a salad and a baked potato, but times have changed for the better.

Grinnell College senior Barbara Monaco, a mathematics major from Des Moines, was awarded a $1,450 UPS Scholarship and a $400 U.S. Bank Scholarship for the 2009-2010 academic year through the Iowa College Foundation.

From 1889 and 1949: Guess which two schools played the first intercollegiate football game west of the Mississippi? This image shows the answer: It was the University of Iowa and Grinnell College.

The ninth John Pesek Colloquium on Sustainable Agriculture, which honors a retired Iowa State University agronomy professor, will be Oct.