Wooster News

Wooster Trustee to serve as special assistant to President Biden for Housing and Urban Policy

Erika Poethig ’93 offers perspective to Biden Administration based on years of experience in urban policy and development

Lowry Center renovation and expansion aims to move forward this summer

Matching gift opportunity offered to encourage support for Lowry renovation and expansion project.

Wooster’s Fall Dance Concert released in video form

Theatre and Dance students come together to perform amid pandemic challenges

Vedica Jha '18 at the Kauke Arch in 2019

Biology and math alumna co-founds startup

Vedica Jha ’18 credits Wooster’s support system for preparing her to create talent-finding platform, ProMytheUs

Ahmet Atay, professor of communication studies and chair of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Global Media and Digital Studies, and Film Studies

Ahmet Atay coedited two books on intercultural communications studies

Professor of communication studies highlights underrepresented perspectives in the field

Wooster Science Café resumes this spring beginning Feb. 24

Discussions and insights on current science topics open to the community via Zoom

Pictured left to right: Chris Gumpper ’18 , Amberleigh Ray ’18 , Sarah Comstock ’18, Rick Lehtinen, professor of biology, Laura Sirot, associate professor of biology, and Mackenzie Kellar ’18. completed research at Bijagual Ecological Reserve in Costa Rica in 2017 that resulted in a study published in a scholarly journal. Photo: Paul Foster.

Rick Lehtinen coauthors publication on second-growth rainforests with Wooster graduates

Study results from five years of expeditions and Independent Study projects

Álvaro Corral coauthors publication on anti-Latinx rhetoric in high school curriculum

Research reveals that nationwide curricular standards promote harmful stereotypes

James Cooper '08 works with a student for his nonprofit, Brake the Cycle, in Springfield, Ohio

History alumnus establishes nonprofit for at-risk youth

James Cooper ’08 emphasizes importance of mentorship at Wooster

Wooster Students Find New Ways to Fill the Arch!

Small groups of students signed up for different time slots in order to reimagine an old tradition in a year that has changed so […]

Bridget Murphy Milligan, associate professor of the Department of Art and Art History

Bridget Murphy Milligan receives Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award

Award recognizes art professor’s photographic series “Wonder Tales”

New Book Lauds Wooster As The School That Best Represents Value

“The Price You Pay for College: An Entirely New Road Map for the Biggest Financial Decision Your Family Will Ever Make”—a new book released […]

Melanie Long offers suggestions for Biden administration’s coronavirus relief bill

Melanie Long, assistant professor of economics, commented on the Biden administration’s coronavirus relief plan in an article for The Conversation, an independent news organization featuring articles from academic experts. The article, “What does the […]