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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 Because of ongoing environmental changes some of these materials are out of date.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 […]

My student Jake Beckstead (’16) recently set up three squirrel nest boxes with web cams that are now up on three trees on the College of Wooster campus (near Kauke, Scovel and Severance Halls). It took about 3 or […]

Dr. Lowell gives the rundown.

Innovative use of newly machined wrenches –
gives a boost to core through the Anthropogenic layer.

Initial description of the 5 meter core – radiocarbon dating will let us know if […]

Coring Browns Lake
2015 was the warmest year since we have been keeping track of global temperatures over the last 150 years. Right now one of the strongest El Ninos is active in the equatorial Pacific. This […]

Starting out at the OARDC after a brief encounter with a glacial erratic, we moved on to the Secrest Arboretum to appreciate the history of growing trees there and the ongoing experiments (including the […]

The high wall of Holmesville Supply sand and gravel gave us a look at what the Wooster Aquifer is made – a sand and gravel Ice Age braided stream (special thanks to Jeremiah for his tour of the mining).