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As command module pilot for the 1971 Apollo 14 mission, Stuart Roosa was one of just 24 people to travel around the Moon*. He was also a former U.S. Forest Service smokejumper, and he carried into lunar orbit about 500 … Continue reading →

It was a honor to welcome Dr. Nicolás Young (’05) back to the College to be our 44th Osgood Speaker. Dr. Young hails from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory’s Cosmo Lab, where he is a Associate Research Scientist. Nicolás is a … Continue reading →

Dr. Mark Abbott and his graduate students Cole and Adeel visited the Wooster Tree Ring Lab with portions of white oak beams from a historic cabin in Pittsburgh. The mission was to tree ring date the outer ring of the … Continue reading →

Since childhood I have been fascinated by M. C. Escher‘s extraordinary graphics. Escher once wrote, “I never feel quite at home among my artist colleagues; what they are striving for, first and foremost is “beauty” … I guess the thing … Continue reading →

It was my privilege to join an Estonian-Polish-Chinese-American team interpreting partial soft-tissue preservation of the feeding devices of Silurian cornulitids, which are extinct Paleozoic organisms that constructed small conical, ribbed tubes. Cornulitids are very common sclerobionts (hard-substrate dwellers) in the … Continue reading →

Dr. Lyon’s class along with her TAs and in collaboration with the Wooster Art Museum significantly upgraded many of the fossil and mineral displays in Scovel Hall this past fall. The classes hard work was revealed in an “opening” on … Continue reading →

Imagine a world with larch trees in the uplands and dawn redwoods in the flats, and bald cypress trees in the wetlands. This existed in the Eocene (~40 million years ago) when the world was warmer, the treeline was at … Continue reading →

With undergraduates Mahala Wanner and Gus Thomas, Niklas Manz and I recently published an article Chemical wires: reaction-diffusion waves as analogues of electron drift in the journal Transport Phenomena. We used chemical reaction-diffusion waves in narrow channels to model electron … Continue reading →

by Claire Elsie and Allie Toombs, with contributions from other Paleoecology students. On Saturday, November 8th, Dr. Lyon’s paleoecology class visited the Cleveland Museum of Natural History for inspiration for our own museum project. We explored the exhibits and analyzed … Continue reading →

Introduction The Euler-Napier-Bernoulli constant [latex]e =2.7182\ldots [/latex] is not just irrational, it is transcendental, as first proved by Charles Hermite in 1873. Inspired by the work of Mathologer (Burkard Polster with Marty Ross), here I offer an elementary proof of … Continue reading →