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It is a heavy title for a blog post, but the contents should not be as tough to digest as you might think. Death Over spring break, one of Wooster’s first year students, Cooper Larsh, perished in a skiing accident. … Continue reading →

A class project from last fall in which students in ENVS 230 “Sustainable Agriculture:  Theory & Practice” (formerly known as “Innovations in Agroecology”)  is featured in the current edition of the College Library’s newsletter. In this project, students paired up … Continue reading →

Renowned performance artist presents “Strange Democracy: The border wars” on April 15 Post-Mexican writer and performance artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña will bring his unique combination of embodied poetry, performance-activism, and theatricalizations of postcolonial theory to The College of Wooster when he … Continue reading →

Editor’s note: Senior Independent Study (I.S.) is a year-long program at The College of Wooster in which each student completes a research project and thesis with a faculty mentor.  We particularly enjoy I.S. in the Geology Department because there are … Continue reading →

Editor’s note: Senior Independent Study (I.S.) is a year-long program at The College of Wooster in which each student completes a research project and thesis with a faculty mentor.  We particularly enjoy I.S. in the Geology Department because there are … Continue reading →

In my early days of teaching paleontology I had an enthusiastic trading program with colleagues around the country. I would supply fine fossils from the Upper Ordovician of southern Ohio for what I considered exotic specimens from elsewhere. In one … Continue reading →

Editor’s note: Senior Independent Study (I.S.) is a year-long program at The College of Wooster in which each student completes a research project and thesis with a faculty mentor.  We particularly enjoy I.S. in the Geology Department because there are … Continue reading →

Six things I need to share with you now, most of them because I promised to do so. I like to deliver on promises I make. Here we go: Irish Friend Visit: When I came to Wooster in 2007, I met … Continue reading →

Some more food for thought. What do you all think?

WOOSTER, OH – Students in the Geology of Natural Hazards course spent a day studying the products of volcanic eruptions. Here are some of the outstanding samples in our volcanic collection: