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First of all, the Center for Diversity and Global Engagement would like to wish everyone the best of luck on finals this week as students here at Wooster finish up exams and papers! We hope that everyone has a great … Continue reading →

The CoRE (Cooperative Research Experience) will be constructed on the main floor of Andrews Library during the winter break.  Read more about it in the Wooster Daily Record and in the Wooster Voice.

No, we’re not talking about the foreign relations that the United States government conducts with other countries.  We are talking about the publication Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS).  It celebrated its 150th anniversary of publication on Dec. 3rd.  … Continue reading →

Few fossils are more dramatic than the long-extinct eurypterids. Above is one of Wooster’s best fossils: Eurypterus remipes De Kay 1825 from the Bertie Waterlime (Upper Silurian) of New York. (Thanks to Roy Plotnick for help with the identification.) As … Continue reading →

This past Saturday Elizabeth Schiltz of the Philosophy Department and I took our First-Year Seminar students on a long drive to the infamous Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky. It was a beautiful day and we had a good time, if … Continue reading →

Last week I had the marvelous opportunity to visit two very different museums with Wooster Geologists. This is the first of two posts with short vignettes of the memorable sights and sounds. The first museum was the Cleveland Museum of … Continue reading →

Its been a while since we posted. So a few updates are due. At the heels of an awesome fall, where fourteen students and five faculty and staff worked with five non-profit organizations in the local Wooster community we are … Continue reading →

The following is a guest blog post from Wooster Geology Senior Lindsey Bowman, a native of Londonderry, Vermont: A metamorphic rock composed mainly of talc, soapstone is found all over the world and has unique qualities such as high heat … Continue reading →

Project Pericles invites students interested in social justice and community action to attend an informational session on the Legislative Hearing competition, which is part of Pericles’ Debating for Democracy Program. This program involves letters to legislators written by teams of … Continue reading →

One of the Environmental Psychology groups tackled the issue of bottled water. Here’s their description: Water bottles create 3 billion pounds of waste! This waste impacts the environment much more than people might think. The trash vortex, otherwise known as … Continue reading →