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San Francisco, CA – The annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union is the largest earth science conference in the world. With more than 20,000 attendees and about 3000 posters per day, you’re bound to bump into someone you know. … Continue reading →

San Francisco, CA – The annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union is the largest earth science conference in the world. With more than 20,000 attendees and about 3000 posters per day, you’re bound to bump into someone you know. … Continue reading →

University students’ behaviors pertaining to sustainability: A structural equation model with sustainability-related attributes Elvan Sahin, Hamide Ertepinar, and Gaye Teksoz in International Journal of Environmental & Science Education   The worldwide action plan, Agenda 21 was accepted in 1992 as a … Continue reading →

I had to share this example of Wooster sustainability at work.  Until this year, soap in the campus soap dispensers did not include triclosan, a known endocrine-disrupting chemical.  When we switched to the new dispensers, alert chemistry professor Melissa Schultz … Continue reading →

This week’s set of exquisite fossils is presented in honor of Andrew Retzler (’11) who has just had his Senior Independent Study thesis at Wooster published in the journal Cretaceous Research: “Chondrichthyans from the Menuha Formation (Late Cretaceous: Santonian–Early Campanian) … Continue reading →

WOOSTER, OHIO — A “Volcano Team” headed to Melrose Elementary this week for an afternoon of fun with Marge Forbush’s 4th grade class. It was our annual fall trip to her classroom, and our task was to discuss the various … Continue reading →

An up-cycling project is happening at the Winter Bash on December 7th, and they need your help! WAC needs burnt-out incandescent light bulbs for their crafts next Friday evening. Bring your bulbs to the drop box in the Lowry Center … Continue reading →

This simple, rounded fossil with tiny holes on its surface is the trepostome bryozoan Prasopora falesi (James, 1884) from the Middle Ordovician Galena Group of eastern Iowa. It was collected with dozens of others on an Independent Study field trip … Continue reading →

Higher Education’s Sustainability Imperative: How to Practically Respond? Kevin J. Krizek, Dave Newport, James White, Alan R. Townsend in International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education   What is the path for achieving a sustainable campus? The authors proposes that institutes … Continue reading →

Isn’t this amazing preservation? This fossil crab, which we received as a donation a few years ago, is Macrophthalmus latreillei (Desmarest, 1822) from the Pleistocene of northern Australia. It is virtually identical to its modern counterpart of the same species, … Continue reading →