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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.– As a retirement gift in 2024, my thoughtful department and other friends gave Gloria and me a certificate to stay in a beautiful and charming bed & breakfast establishment in Gettysburg. (Shout out to the Brafferton Inn!) They … Continue reading →

Guest bloggers: Adam Wood and Arjan Chahal. On September 8, 2025, the College of Wooster ESCI-28000-01 (Hydro) team visited two artesian wells/springs (Kinney and Wayne County Airport site). Above the group is shown taking notes on the location, the depth … Continue reading →

Guest Bloggers: Li Winner and Aaron Walter Dr. Wiles’s 2025 Hydrology class visited Spangler Park this past Monday. The day was sunny and warm. The main objective was to study the geological history and hydrology of the park. Especially with … Continue reading →

In the spring of 2020, on my NC State sabbatical, during the initial lock-down for the worst pandemic of my lifetime, I stayed busy in part by writing a text called g = 2: A Gentle Introduction to Relativistic Quantum Mechanics. … Continue reading →

Guest bloggers: Phillipp Drappatz and Elliot Miller, the Hydrology class at the College of Wooster performed a macroinvertebrate survey on 8/25/25 on Apple Creek in Wooster. The first lab of the semester was a trip to Grosjean Park in Wooster. … Continue reading →

Alexandria, Virginia.– Today Wooster Geologists Greg Wiles and Nick Wiesenberg visited Gloria and me in our new home in northern Virginia. It was great to see treasured old friends from the department. After lunch we visited a tree in our … Continue reading →

Coring a lake usually involves… a lake. In this case, Dr. Eva Lyon and colleagues from Ohio University are studying Paleolake Buckeye, which probably last had water in the late Pleistocene, over 15 thousand years ago. To study the paleolake, … Continue reading →

I recently discovered that the College’s yearbooks, The Index, are now online, and I spent several days extracting some physics history, supplemented by the Alumni Catalogue 1870-1925 and several Annual Catalogues, also online, as well as the Physics Department’s web … Continue reading →

In Fall 2024 Dr. Lyon led a field trip to eastern West Virginia for the Cave Geology class. The class of eight students, with ESCI technician Nick Wiesenberg, explored three different caves and emerged a little bit wetter and muddier … Continue reading →

Artificial neural networks are increasingly important in society, technology, and science, and they are increasingly large and energy hungry. Indeed, the escalating energy footprint of large-scale computing is a growing economic and societal burden. Must we always use brute force, … Continue reading →