Science, Engineering & Sustainability

Do you love to solve complex problems and investigate the world around you?
Are you happiest in the lab or doing research in the field?
Do you get excited about finding solutions to address climate change and preserve biodiversity?
Do you have a favorite subatomic particle?

Science, Engineering & Sustainability prepares Grinnellians for careers in scientific research, ecology and conservation, biomedical engineering, clean energy development, cognitive science, and more.

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Two Grinnellians Receive Goldwater Scholarships

Erik Genet ’26 and Shabab Kabir ’26, research students at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, NY, summer of 2024, were named Goldwater Scholars in March 2025.

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Open STEM Teaching Positions in Iowa Public School District for May 2025 Grads With or Without Teaching License

Are you a 4th year math or science major graduating in May 2025 and interested in being a STEM teacher in a public middle/high school in Iowa after graduation? Here is an exciting opportunity to teach, and you don’t even …

By Chad Berman

How a Cold Email Can Secure Your Next Job or Internship

by Philip Kiely ’20

As a student at Grinnell College, I spent countless hours in a familiar loop: find an internship that looked promising, upload my résumé to the application portal, re-type all of the information from my résumé into …

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