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10/1/11 — A cold, wet day brought out the gloves for Brett Dawson of Wooster’s venerable marching band.

…please pardon my quoting of antiquated Disney Channel teeny-bopper lyrics. That song, in case you are not as up-to-date on your out-of-date music as I am, is “Rush” by Aly and AJ. I don’t actually know what happened to those … Continue reading →

9/24/11 — A pickup football game breaks out during half time of Wooster’s home night game against Ohio Wesleyan University. The Fighing Scots prevailed 10-6.  

9/24/11 — Wooster’s Brett Frongillo lunges across the goal line taking an Ohio Wesleyan defender along for the ride. The Fighting Scots came out on top with a 10-6 victory.

Oreodonts are extraordinarily common fossils in the Oligocene of North America. Just about every teaching fossil collection contains at least a couple oreodont skulls, most obtained during late Nineteenth-Century field trips to the Great Plains. Our specimen above is of … Continue reading →

WOOSTER, OHIO–The Wooster Geologists have long had a special relationship with The College of Wooster Nursery School (where young children “actively construct their own knowledge of the world”). Every year our faculty and students talk to the children about rocks, … Continue reading →

As Susan Clayton reported earlier, the college’s teaching garden had its official ribbon-cutting ceremony several weeks back, and I wanted to take this moment to describe the garden in a little more detail. The plot is about 65′ long and … Continue reading →

WOOSTER, OHIO–Our colleague Rick Lehtinen in the Department of Biology had a great idea: how about a casual noon trip to the local Spangler Park to enjoy the plants, animals, rocks and streams? So Greg Wiles and I took him … Continue reading →

This Sunday the Environmental Psychology class, along with a few representatives from a Chemistry and Climate Change class, visited the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, where two special exhibits are featured.  One is a regular museum exhibit on climate change. … Continue reading →

This summer I joined a team describing a shell bed in the Upper Cretaceous (lower Campanian, about 80 million years old) Wadi Umm Ghudran Formation exposed northeast of Amman, Jordan (at N 32° 09.241′, E 36° 12.960′, to be exact). … Continue reading →