Iván Akiri ’22 and Sarah Brunot ’22 present their data and insights to The Wilderness Center.

Social Entrepreneurship program students perform local research projects to solve community business problems

The Social Entrepreneurship (SE) program at The College of Wooster once again designed community-based projects that connected talented students seeking experiential learning opportunities with […]

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Cheer Me Up: A Game Theoretic Optimisation Analysis of the Relationships Between Morale, Corruption and Individual Tax Evasion Decisions

Name: Pragya Mittal Majors: Mathematics and Economics Advisor: Dr. Moses Luri This paper asks the question, “what is the impact of morale on evasion, when corruption and […]

Gunjan Joshi

Exploring Augmented Reality Using Snapchat’s Lens Studio

Name: Gunjan Joshi Major: Computer Science Minor: Economics Advisors: Dr. Drew Guarnera and Dr. Thomas Montelione Augmented reality is a technology that uses visual elements, sounds, hardware like […]

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Human Capital Investment through Education: The way to an equitable middle class in South Africa

Name: Laura Peterjohn Major: Economics Minor: English Advisor: Dr. Brooke Krause; Dr Melanie Long (second reader) When Apartheid ended in 1994 South Africa was left with one of […]

Modeling Premier League Success with Extreme Gradient Boosting

Name: Dillon Wheeler Majors: Statistical and Data Sciences Minors: Economics Advisors: Christina Horr, Moses Luri In this study data over the course of seven […]

Richie Pajak

A Simulation of the Economic Impact of Disaster Events

Name: Richie Pajak Major: Computer Science Minor: Economics Advisor: Heather Guarnera The goal of this project is to determine the impact of natural disasters […]

Aubry Miller

The Economic Impact of Ocean Acidification on Coral Reefs: An Evaluation of the Provisioning Services of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia

Name: Aubry Miller Major: Economics Minor: Studio Art Advisors: Prof. Sookti Chaudhary and Prof. Phil Mellizo The climate crisis is an urgent issue facing […]

Shawn Ngwena

An Analysis of The Effects of The Rapidly Growing Technology Industry on Income Inequality in The United States

Name: Shawn Ngwena Major: Economics Minor: Computer Science Advisors: Prof Melanie Long, Prof Brooke Krause Does everyone in the United States economy equally benefit […]

Testing the effect of Intermittent fasting on anxiety and inflammation in rats with altered gut microbiota

Name: Nivedita Rathaur Majors: Biology, Economics Advisors: Dr. Sharon Lynn and Dr. Huiting Tian The impact of intermittent fasting (IF) on stress was determined by considering anxiety-levels […]

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Wooster welcomes former Nike executive Stefan Olander as James R. Wilson Lecture Series speaker

Stefan Olander, former Vice President of Global Digital Innovation, will visit The College of Wooster on Thursday, April 28 as part of the James […]

Wooster Science Cafe Spring 2022

Wooster Science Café resumes for spring season Feb. 1

A new season of the Wooster Science Café kicks off Feb. 1, 2022, at 7 p.m. Sponsored by The College of Wooster and The […]

Melanie Long, assistant professor of economics

Melanie Long calls attention to figures that will affect the economy in 2022

Melanie Long, assistant professor of economics at The College of Wooster, called attention “real weekly earnings” and their impact on the cost of consumer […]

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Economics Major reclassified as a STEM program expands opportunities for international graduates

Students who graduate with an economics major from The College of Wooster can now count themselves as STEM majors. The new classification—with science, technology, […]

Aubry Miller

APEX Fellowship | Aubry Miller

Major: Economics Class Year: 2022 Pronouns: She/Her/Hers Faculty Mentor: Dr. Brooke Krause As a She Grows It intern I conducted social policy and economic […]

Gunjan Joshi

APEX Fellowship | Gunjan Joshi

Majors: Economics, Computer Science Class Year: 2022 Pronouns: He/Him/His Faculty Mentor: Dr. Hilary Edgington As a backend developer for InfoDevelopers Pvt. Ltd., a software […]

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APEX Fellowship | Michael Thomas

Major: Economics Class Year: 2022 Pronouns: He/Him/His Faculty Mentor: Dr. Leslie Wingard I interned with the Seattle CityClub, a nonpartisan civic organization. My responsibilities […]

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APEX Fellowship | Sukriti Chiripal

Majors: Economics and Psychology Class Year: 2024 Pronouns: She/Her/Hers Faculty Mentor: Dr. Hamed Goharipour As a Consultant at Ernst&Young, a multinational professional services network, […]

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AMRE | Wayne County Dog Shelter and Adoption Center

Sarah Brunot ’22 | Environmental Studies Kate Yordy ’22 | Russian Studies & Economics Special thanks to the following sponsors: Laura B. Frick Charitable […]

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AMRE | Holmes County Economic Impact

Caitlyn Denes ’23 | Environmental Geoscience Hephzibah Emereole ’22 | Computer Science Mahi Lal ’22 | Economics Faculty Advisors: Huiting Tian and Melanie Long Special […]

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AMRE | Fututorwo

Vera Bordah ’22 | Mechanical Engineering Henry Pellegrin ’23 | Global & International Studies and Religious Studies Mekdes Shiferaw ’23 | Global & International […]