Understanding the ecosystem

By Sam Susanin Below Sam reflects on a session with one of our partner organizations in India. Center for Social Initiative and Management (CSIM) runs a program similar to Global SE for professionals. The GSE team attended our last CSIM … Continue reading
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Update on Glacier National Park

I said in an earlier post that the glaciers would be gone by 2030.  The prediction has been updated and they’re now saying it may be as soon as 2020. You can find the article as well as some pictures … Continue reading
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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A Conulariid (Lower Carboniferous of Indiana)

I have some affection for these odd fossils, the conulariids. When I was a student in the Invertebrate Paleontology course taught Dr. Richard Osgood, Jr., I did my research paper on them. I had recently found a specimen in the … Continue reading
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What ‘Bharat’ (India) needs.

By Amarjeet Sinha This article was reprinted by permission of the author who is a civil servant. These views are personal. He can be contacted at amarjeetsinha@hotmail.com How can we make social and inclusive development a reality? The answer lies … Continue reading
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A Keck Adventure at 66 North

West Fjords, Iceland – We’re happy to report that the 2011 Iceland Keck crew has safely completed a productive field season. Nearly two weeks ago, a boat dropped us off in Hornstrandir, a nature preserve that encompasses most of the … Continue reading
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Connecting with Facebook

Facebook is popular among college campuses and Wooster is no exception. Many of our departments and offices maintain their own Facebook page or group in addition to The College of Wooster official Facebook page. Today we launched a new feature … Continue reading
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Billionaires and responsibility for Organizational Development

As anyone who is travelled to India knows, this is a country of contrasts – of spectacular riches and spectacular poverty. This is the country that has built the Taj Mahal, the Mysore Palace, and some of the most luxiorious … Continue reading
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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: An edrioasteroid (Upper Ordovician of Kentucky)

This week’s fossil appeared previously in this blog when we discussed hiatus concretions and their fossil fauna. It is one of my favorites for both how we found it (see the entry linked above) and the way it introduced me … Continue reading
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Where Does the Food Go?

Here is a second update from Lauren Vargo, one of our students doing an urban gardening internship this summer with the Cleveland Botanical Garden’s Green Corps program.  Read her first update here. * * * * * Several weeks ago … Continue reading
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What the SE Experience meant for me

By Usman Gul Sometime during my sophomore year at Wooster, I began to weigh my options about the many different paths in life that I could adopt after graduation.  Public policy, urban planning, behavioral economics and econometrics all seemed to … Continue reading
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