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It’s no ordinary oyster, of course, because it comes from Texas. It certainly is the largest oyster I’ve ever seen. Wooster received it as part of a large donation in 2010. (You can see students studying it in this previous … Continue reading →

This summer ten College of Wooster faculty will be traveling to Jordan and the Jerusalem area for an extended study seminar on conflict and cooperation between Jordanians, Israelis and Palestinians. We are supported by the Hales Fund at Wooster administered … Continue reading →

Jared Cohen Children of Jihad: terrorism, democracy, and the  Changing Demographics of the Middle East Tuesday, Sept 2nd, 2008  (McGaw at 7:30 p.m. Jared Cohen received his B.A. from Stanford University and his M.Phil in International Relations from Oxford University, … Continue reading →

Tracy Kidder Mountains Beyond Mountains Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 ( McGaw Chapel, 7:30 p.m). Over his long career, Kidder’s writing has been prolific and outstanding. The Soul of New Machine- a book celebrated for its insight into the world of … Continue reading →

WOOSTER, OHIO–It is now difficult to believe that we were measuring stratigraphic sections in a sleety thunderstorm on Saturday. Today the Tuesday lab of my Sedimentology & Stratigraphy course visited a local outcrop of the Logan Formation (Lower Carboniferous) to … Continue reading →

We’re looking at two fossils above. One is the bryozoan Peronopora, the major skeletal structure. The second is the odd series of scalloped holes in its surface. These are a trace fossil called Catellocaula vallata Palmer and Wilson 1988. They … Continue reading →

FAIRBORN, OHIO–I actually used to brag about the great weather on my class field trips. The hubris! Today Shelley Judge and I took our combined Sedimentology & Stratigraphy and Structural Geology classes to Oakes Park Quarry near Dayton for a … Continue reading →

When we talk about environmental sustainability, we tend to think about actions that protect and preserve ecosystem processes. But from a different perspective, an essential requirement of sustainability is education:  teaching people about the environmental challenges we face, and teaching … Continue reading →

WOOSTER, OHIO–Six Wooster geology seniors presented their research to the campus and public this morning in Kauke Hall on the College of Wooster campus. They were among the first posters in the annual Senior Research Symposium in which Independent Study … Continue reading →

This weathered and encrusted shell was pulled from a round hole bored in a Pleistocene reef (about 125,000 years old) exposed on San Salvador Island, The Bahamas. It is Coralliophaga coralliophaga (Gmelin 1791), a derived venerid bivalve (a type of … Continue reading →