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“We must cultivate our garden.”  Voltaire, Candide Last Wednesday, with great fanfare if not great weather, saw the opening of the College’s new teaching garden on the corner of College and Pearl streets.  The garden has multiple possible functions. Most … Continue reading →

J’ouvert (pronunciation: juuvay) is a large street party held during Carnival in the Caribbean region. Wooster’s version was held on the Quad to the delight of hundreds.

Sarah Abboud and Kipaya Kapiga both returned from India after working with Dream a Dream. Kipaya is busy with a new project, the Woostonian, and Sarah is back to playing basketball and working on her IS. Here is a neat … Continue reading →

The Office of Information Technology in collaboration with the Classroom Stewards Committee improved and updated classroom technology in numerous rooms across campus. Here’s a list of some of the details: Taylor 210 – Added ceiling speakers and control system Taylor … Continue reading →

The environmental studies brownbag series will run on the first and third Fridays of the month at noon in Morgan 309.  We’ll start off on September 16th with Dr. Susan Clayton presenting “Communicating Climate Change.”  All are welcome to bring … Continue reading →

This week’s specimen is from a group of fossils I gave my Invertebrate Paleontology students as “unknowns” to identify. Since it is their very first week of class I expected them to struggle, but many did remarkably well. (Congratulations to … Continue reading →

WOOSTER, OHIO–The cheerful group above is the Wooster Geology Club in our traditional start of the year group photograph. (The image was kindly taken by Danielle Reeder.) We are fewer than usual because an unprecedented number of our geology majors … Continue reading →

This week’s fossils are graptolites (from the Greek for written rocks) I found many years ago in the Lebanon Limestone near the town of Caney Springs south of Nashville, Tennessee. They are of the genus Amplexograptus and probably belong to … Continue reading →

These terms are often confused in regular use. In reality they are quite different. That is why, when I saw this clip by John Kotter explaining the difference, I thought I would share. Watch “The Difference Between Change Management and … Continue reading →