Site-Wide Activity

The Wooster in Ecuador 2010 group is proud to offer the campus and surrounding community a chance to come and learn about conservation biology in the tropics. We will present our experiences and discoveries about […]

I’ve completed the first draft of one of the four buildings I am studying – the Kauke Hall pages. They are uploaded on my website, but since the website hasn’t been officially launched yet, I have linked them to […]

Tree Exhibit – Draft Concepts and Ideas

Review Documents: Final Topics and the final review powerpoint (as a pdf).

On a beautiful Monday afternoon the class ventured south to the lake district of Holmes County […]

We’ve given some close attention to the “new imperialism” of the late nineteenth century, which is typically dated from the 1880s (the  Berlin Conference of 1884 was an important turning point) down to the […]

Earlier this week, the College of Wooster hosted Lawrence Biemiller, a senior writer with the Chronicle of Higher Education. Lawrence had just embarked on a November tour of college campuses (you can follow his […]

The College of Wooster recently had a “beam signing” for Wooster students, faculty, staff, and trustees as part of the construction process for the new athletic facility on campus, known as the Scot Center (Click […]

So November is here and the semester is coming to a close way to fast. Only five more weeks left. I don’t really have a chapter draft right now, but the good news is the website is up and running – and actually […]

There’s so much to say about the late nineteenth century I don’t know where to begin. Let me just lay out a few questions that we can talk about this week.

First, a look back at Friday: did my reading of […]

Proyecto Latino presents Día de los Muertos Celebration 2010 – October 29th to November 2nd
Calendar of Events:
Día de los Muertos Dance Party
Friday, October 29, 2010, 11:00pm – 2:00am / The UG

Are you dying […]

My advisers and I had a very productive meeting with the folks over at Instructional Technology about my project and where it’s headed. We hammered out a lot of details, such as what platform I was going to use to […]

Going along with my prospectus that was due last week, I am still in the planning stages for most of my project. While I am reading, researching the several tours stops that I am going to create, I am also […]

Walter Benjamin offered that “There is no document of civilization that is not at the very same time a document of barbarism.” Writing in 1940 and in Paris, where the German-Jewish writer had fled the Nazis, […]

This week we’ve begun to contemplate the upheaval in world history that has come to be known as the industrial revolution, the transformation from an agrarian, handicraft economy to an industrial economy that […]

On Monday, September 27th, Wooster’s Climate Change class hit the road for Kidron, Ohio’s Sonnenberg Village.

The settlement is a rejuvenation project aimed to relocate and reconstruct over a dozen 19th cen […]

Although historic preservation is still largely defining itself as a field of study and as a profession, the debate that has ranged over several key issues has defined what historic preservation is today. All […]

My prospectus which outlines my project is finished. I have attached it to this post for all who care to read.

JDinkelaker Senior IS Prospectus 10-4-10

Check out Loyd Wollstadt’s photo set of Old Wooster on Flickr – there are some great photos of the campus, circa 1959-63, as well as homecoming traditions. I would love to get permission to use some of these for my project.

On Thursday, September 30th, Peace by Peace will screen a documentary entitled Father Roy: Inside the School of the Assassins at 6pm and 8pm in the Lowry Pit.  It is a documentary about the School of the […]

The French Revolution is one of those world historical events that will be forever studied, forever argued over. Today I gave you just a glimpse of its meaning and complexity.

If you want to explore a bit […]

Here are some of the sources I am going to use for my project. The first  is an edited book that discusses landscape archaeology and cultural landscapes. The second is a photographic history of Wooster by […]