Category Archives: ScotBlogs Contributed

Yuhe Ren, Niklas Manz, and I recently published an article Guided flame: reaction-diffusion of fire pulses in narrow channels in the journal Open Transport. Machinist Tim Siegenthaler helped make the channels. This work had been gestating for a long ti… Continue reading →

Participants: Greg Wiles, Nick Wiesenberg, Ben Gaglioti, Daniel Mann, Gabrielle Sjoberg, Eloise Peabbles, Eric Benedict, Julian Narvaez, Bob Girt, Arianna Lapke, Lilly Hinkley, Amanda Flory, Michail Protopapadakis, Wenshuo Zhao, Tyrell Cooper,  Lynnsey… Continue reading →

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 → 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 … Con… 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 → 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 gue… 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. Cornu… 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 → 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 n… Continue reading →