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Dear Fellow Wooster Scots: Each year, your Alumni Board is pleased to welcome into the fold 6 new alumni members and two new faculty representatives. Please join me in welcoming our new board members, who I have listed below. I … Continue reading →

The 2013 Invertebrate Paleontology class at Wooster had its first field trip today. The weather was absolutely perfect, and the usual boatload of fossils was collected. We traveled this year to Caesar Creek State Park and worked in the emergency … Continue reading →

This is the first nautiloid specimen I’ve seen in the Matmor Formation (Middle Jurassic, Callovian) after ten years of collecting in it. Our colleague Yoav Avni (Geological Survey of Israel) picked it up during this summer’s fieldwork. It is a … Continue reading →

Every year in the first class session of my Invertebrate Paleontology course I give my students each an unknown fossil. It must be something relatively common so that I can give 20 nearly-identical specimens, and it is ideally of a … Continue reading →

WOOSTER, OHIO–The happy people above represent most of the Wooster Geology Club in late August, 2013. We’re missing one faculty member: Greg Wiles, who is currently in the Far East of Russia on a research leave. Thank you to Danielle … Continue reading →

This week’s fossil was collected on a Keck Geology Consortium expedition to Cyprus in the summer of 1996. My Independent Study student on that adventure was Steve Dornbos (’97), now a professor at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (and a … Continue reading →

Hello, all! I know I said I’d post this link when I created my study abroad blog, but it was boring then and had no content. Now it has a few entries about my summer, and things are about to … Continue reading →

“A New Leaf: The Rediscovery of the Book as Art” will be on display in the Department of Special Collections, The College of Wooster Libraries, August 26 – October 4, 2013. The exhibit is available for viewing Monday – Friday … Continue reading →

Finals week doesn’t feel all that long ago. Commencement shivers of excitement and unseasonably cold weather are still fresh in my mind. Finally, with the mass exodus of students, there always comes a mad rush of move-out waste and diversion … Continue reading →

Sarah Bender (’15) and Sarah Frederick (’15) had the opportunity this summer to complete National Science Foundation funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs). Each spent a good part of their summer completing a research project under the mentorship of accomplished … Continue reading →