Summer 2026 Wooster magazine demonstrates how mentorship matters at Wooster
The College of Wooster weaves mentorship into the student experience as an intentional foundation that guides what they learn and who they become. Through conscientious conversation, reflection, and encouragement, mentors help students transform curiosity into confidence and shape paths that continue long after graduation. The summer 2026 issue of Wooster magazine explores mentorship as a defining characteristic of the Wooster experience: students guided through ambitious research questions, faculty strengthening mentoring practices across campus, and alumni carrying forward the lessons and values of mentorship in their careers and communities.
The traditional Independent Study issue follows new student research that studies how the brain processes music, reveals historic perceptions about beauty, challenges assumptions about consciousness, and creates a quantitative method for studying distant galaxies. Also featured is a faculty initiative strengthening mentoring practices across campus through a community of learning. Finally, Alumni Amber Rice ’01, Austin Russell ’19, Marcel El Kouri ’21, and Emily Beuter ’20 share how the lessons they learned as mentees at Wooster became part of their own values as they mentor others in their careers and communities.
Oak Grove includes reflections from basketball guard Mackenzie Riccitelli ’28 in “Why I Play,” a look inside the office of Dean for Curriculum & Academic Engagement Jen Bowen in “Office Hours,” and “Tartan Through Time” highlights the history of students’ tradition of filling Kauke Arch with snow. Tartan Ties spotlights “Scot Volunteer” Bernice Walker ’86, and recent books published by alumni, including an author profile with Lauren Bell ’94, alongside class notes and recent alumni events.
The summer 2026 issue of Wooster magazine is available at wooster.edu/magazine, and past issues of the magazine are available in the Open Works repository.
Posted in News on June 25, 2026.
