Site-Wide Activity

“The Original Sin” by Nellie Quinn

How do you interpret the title? What do you find intriguing or unique about this particular testimonial?

Reflect on your learning of the assigned material in this course during the past two weeks. How is your perspective on Latinos in the United States evolving (or not evolving) as a result of doing the assigned […]

What is the main point that Steinbeck makes in this article? Does it surprise you? Why?

Latino Americans: Episode 2

Share your reflections on this episode. What themes continue in this episode that we saw in the previous one and in “Diario de un viaje a CA”? What specific information do you believe […]

“Diario de un viaje a California” by Vicente Pérez Rosales

Share your thoughts on this testimonial from the late 1840s. What do witnesses of history have to teach us about a past moment in time or about the […]

Latino Americans: Episode 1

Share your reflections on this episode. What specific information do you believe is important to retain? What details will you likely remember one year from now?

Read Wooster’s Mission Statement, Core Values, and description of FYS. Afterwards, please discuss what you find appealing about Wooster’s liberal arts curriculum and FYS. Also, please list any questions that you […]

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I was happy to be able to attend the Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists this year, which met recently in New Orleans. With co-author Erin Hodson (’14) I gave a talk entitled “Decline of an […]

A dedicated, select group of geologists, physicists, archaeologists, political scientists, biologists, english and history majors joined forces to learn a bit about Climate Change in the natural laboratory of […]

Extracting a Temperature Proxy Record from Larch in Kamchatka
Abbey Martin, Sarah McGrath, Matthew Shearer, Ann Wilkinson, Vincent Hui
The purpose of this study was to analyze larch (Larix cajandery Mayr.) tree […]

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Below are some of the photos and materials from last spring’s course. Because of ongoing environmental changes some of these materials are out of date. 
Last lecture slides f […]

A pretty reasonable day to work. We had the pleasure of working at Secrest Arboretum last week coring European Larch some planted in 1909 CE. This is the third site collected from Secrest by the Wooster Tree Ring […]

A Distributed Network of Neuroscience Scholars
This REU site is now closed.  Our 3 years of NSF funding ended in 2018.  There will be no further applications accepted.
This Research Experience for U […]

I. Analytical (take-home). (10 points)

Use appropriate film terminology to analyze one of the following film segments:

1) Hable con ella

2) Amores perros

3) El laberinto del fauno

II. Theory. (40 point […]

Climate Change 2016 has successfully dated the Biggio Barn – ten of the beams were cut in the spring of 1840. The building then was likely constructed shortly after that cut date.  A copy of the report […]

Dr. Pamela Frese, Anthropology 231 “Peoples and Cultures of Latin America” MWF   12:00-12:50 [C, HSS]

Dr. Katie Holt, History 1o1 “Latin American Revolutions” TTH 2:30-3:50 [C, HSS]

Dr. Katie Holt, History 2 […]

Late last year, Jacob Beckstead (’16) and I got some squirrel nest boxes set up on the College of Wooster campus. These nest boxes are equipped with web cams that allow us to peak in on the squirrels activities […]

A beautiful day at the Biggio Barn – Nick gives the class the rundown

The barn owner gives the rundown on the history and possible ages of the hand hewn timber frame.

Hong Kong dendrochronologist, Vincent shows […]