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By Parisa Ahmadi. In my last blog post, I ended with three questions (which will follow shortly). After my professor saw the post, he told me, “It’s such a tease! You ask these questions and you don’t follow up!” So I decided to just that. Continue reading →

Students in ENVS 230 “Sustainable Agriculture” have the unique opportunity to practice what their professor preaches, as they plant and then manage the Learning Garden all autumn as part of their lab experience. The following photos are from their first … Continue reading →

So I made a video walking tour of Wooster for a good friend of mine, and I decided that this would be a good place to share it as well. You’ll have to pardon the shaky camera action and the … Continue reading →

Hello there! Here’s a list of the latest ‘Green’ happenings on Campus. 1. Sustainability Coordinator The College has finally appointed a Sustainability Coordinator! Hooray! She is Sarah-Beth Loder. Contact her at sloder@wooster.edu!  The Wooster Voice is publishing an exclusive article on … Continue reading →

RICHMOND, INDIANA–Geology students in the Cincinnati area are a bit spoiled when it comes to finding fossils in the field. The Upper Ordovician rocks here are world-famous for the extraordinary abundance, variety and preservation of invertebrate fossils.like those shown above … Continue reading →

This week’s fossil is a tiny little crinoid with an odd shape. Calceocrinus balticensis (shown above with the scale bar as one millimeter) is a new species from the Lower Silurian (Llandovery) of Hiiumaa, western Estonia. It is part of … Continue reading →

WOOSTER, OH – I’m always awed by the beautiful and perfect symmetry of crystals. I can think of no better way to teach external symmetry than with wooden crystal models. The wooden crystal models are a common experience in geology, … Continue reading →

Well, it’s happened. I turned in my declaration form to the registrar and now, once the paperwork goes through, I will be an official College of Wooster Communication Studies major – I even had my picture taken already. Suffice to say … Continue reading →

Our fossils this week come from our growing collection of material found in the Matmor Formation (Callovian-Oxfordian) of Makhtesh Gadol, southern Israel. In November I will be giving a talk at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America … Continue reading →

Welcome back to the start of the school year! We’ll have a number of events of interest this fall. Some are sure to come up later, but here’s a sampling: The Art Museum will be presenting a video, Tooba, in … Continue reading →