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With one of these event calendars you can instantly add functionality, i.e. – thumbnail and body images, multiple links, details, and lists. Event calendars have been around for awhile, but haven’t been an accessible option for our editors to add them by themselves…until now. … Continue reading →

“A History of Witchcraft in England 1558 to 1718: The Research of Wallace Notestein” will be on display in the Department of Special Collections, The College of Wooster Libraries, October 21 – December 16, 2011. The exhibit features materials from … Continue reading →

Join us to learn and explore ways of solving large social issues with innovative solutions.  Hear Peter Senge, Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, Founder of Society for Organizational Learning and award-winning author of The Fifth Discipline … Continue reading →

A recent environmental studies brownbag discussed green burials. Those of you who were there know that there’s a certified green cemetery in our own area, associated with the Wilderness Center.  Kyrstin Gibson passed on this link to an article in … Continue reading →

It is time we had another fossil plant in this series. The above specimen is Neuropteris ovata Hoffmann 1826, a relatively common bit of foliage in the Upper Carboniferous of North America. This is a pteridosperm, more commonly known as … Continue reading →

PAULDING, OHIO–There’s nothing like the stirring rings of 50 geologic hammers in the morning. Today I was a guest of the North Coast Fossil Club and my friend Brian Bade in a quarry exposing the Middle Devonian limestones and shales. … Continue reading →

On Friday afternoon, a group of Wooster geologists participated in an educational outreach program at Wayne Elementary. Marge Forbush, an educator at Wayne always asks the department to come to her classroom twice a year. In the fall, we spend … Continue reading →

WOOSTER, OHIO — National Fossil Day has now been in place for two years. Curiously enough, two Wooster alumnae, Erica Clites and Eva Lyon, have been critical organizers and promoters of this great event as Paleontology Interns with the National … Continue reading →

WOOSTER, OHIO — This time it was the turn of Dr. Greg Wiles to host the The College of Wooster Nursery School children as they visited Scovel Hall and its world-famous Wooster Tree-Ring Laboratory. He had ambitious plans for the … Continue reading →

OK, it’s true: our Fossil of the Week is not actually a fossil. (The “Recent” in the title was a clue.) I bought this shell at the Wayne County Fair and it was so beautiful it just had to make … Continue reading →