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I have literally spent this entire weekend cleaning. For me, it is a slow going process. In fact, it was a stroke of luck that Celeste was not here, because I am very self-conscious about a.) my tendency to make … Continue reading →

MacArthur Fellowship Award winner, Lateefah Simon, will visit campus for a series of lectures, workshops and classroom visits from November 7 – 11, 2011. Ms. Simon is the Executive Director of the Rosenberg Foundation, and former Executive Director of the … Continue reading →

This week’s fossil is a beautiful little gastropod (snail) scientifically known as Diodora italica (Defrance, 1820), and commonly as the Italian Keyhole Limpet. I collected it with Steve Dornbos (’97) during the 1996 Keck Geology Expedition to Cyprus, where it … Continue reading →

Which means, “I want to sleep, but I have too much Chinese homework.” (I think I wrote it correctly.) I just thought that – while taking a break from Chinese handwriting sheets so that my hand doesn’t fall off – … Continue reading →

The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has just issued a 63 page study, titled “Trends in the Distribution of Household Income Between 1979 and 2007.”

I will admit that I very rarely utilize Lowry’s stir-fry station. There is something about my combination of awkwardness and impatience that makes it a less-than-desirable option for me on most days. Today, however, I decided to go for it. … Continue reading →

Stromatoporoids are very common fossils in the Silurian and Devonian of Ohio and Indiana, especially in carbonate rocks like the Columbus Limestone (from which the above specimen was collected). Wooster geologists encountered them frequently on our Estonia expeditions in the … Continue reading →

Yesterday was my birthday. I think that makes today the best day for me to return to posting, since no one can be mad at me for not posting for a long time ’cause hey – I was the birthday … Continue reading →

WOOSTER, OHIO–We were greatly honored this evening to have one of our own, Dr. George Davis (Wooster ’64), present the 31st Annual Richard G. Osgood, Jr., Memorial Lecture. The Osgood Lectureship was endowed in 1981 by the three sons of … Continue reading →

I’ve been traveling a bit recently — from the claustrophobically tree-lined, winding roads of Connecticut to the desolate open spaces of Texas: All this has made me think about the way we attach ourselves to place.  Location puts its stamp … Continue reading →