B-WISER Camp 2023

B-WISER summer camp offers girls opportunity to explore STEM fields

The B-WISER educational summer camp, a partnership between The College of Wooster and the Martha Holden Jennings Foundation, will take place June 10-15, 2024. […]

Hudson Davis

APEX Fellowship | Hudson Davis

Major: Geology Class Year: 2024 Organization: Burpee Museum of Natural History I will join the Burpee Museum of Natural History as a field assistant, working […]

Ryan Johnston '23

Turnip Turn-in: Park Ranger intern sets precedents for research classification and completion

Ryan Johnston ’23 says he’d be a very different person if he hadn’t attended The College of Wooster. The Ohio native came to play […]

Mark Wilson, the Lewis M. and Marian Senter Nixon Professor of Natural Sciences

Earth Sciences professor names fossil for Wooster

Mark Wilson, the Lewis M. and Marian Senter Nixon Professor of Natural Sciences in the Department of Earth Sciences at The College of Wooster, […]

Uniaxial compression of FOAMGLAS® and bubble deformation

Name: Lauren Kreeger Major: Geology Minor: German Studies Advisor: Dr. Shelley Judge, Dr. Mark Wilson The degassing of bubbly silicic melts controls the explosivity […]

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Magmatic Evolution of the Bræðravirki Ridge Basalts in Western Iceland

Name: Judith Topham Major: Geology Advisors: Meagen Pollock, Mark Wilson Bræðravirki is a hyaloclastic dominated tindar in the Western Volcanic Zone of Iceland. It is […]

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Automated Geologic Cross-Section Generation for Ohio using GemPy

Name: Abigail Rice Major: Computer Science Minors: Mathematics, Geology Advisors: Daniel Palmer, Drew Guarnera Geologic cross-sections show us a history of the Earth and are an important […]

Terry Wilson, professor emerita at The Ohio State University School of Earth Sciences

41st annual Osgood Memorial Lecture to feature earth scientist Terry Wilson

The College of Wooster Department of Earth Sciences will welcome Terry Wilson, professor emerita at The Ohio State University School of Earth Sciences, for […]

Lauren Vargo '13

Alumna on ice: Lauren Vargo ’13 studies connections between glacier melt and climate change

This story originally appeared in the Spring 2023 edition of Wooster Magazine. Lauren Vargo ’13 came to The College of Wooster because she wanted […]

Campers at B-WISER

B-WISER summer camp inspires girls to pursue interests in science

The Buckeye Women in Science, Engineering, and Research (B-WISER) summer camp, an educational partnership of the Martha Holden Jennings Foundation and The College of […]

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Wooster receives $475 thousand HHMI grant to support inclusive excellence in research mentoring in STEM

The College of Wooster has received a grant of $475,000 from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Inclusive Excellence 3 (IE3) initiative for work over […]

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APEX Fellowship | Hudson Davis

Major: Geology Class Year: 2024 Organization: Burpee Museum of Natural History I will join the Burpee Museum of Natural History’s field crew as a […]

Hudson Davis '24

Geology major gains scientific skills in paleontology internship 

After volunteering with the Burpee Museum of Natural History, Hudson Davis ’24, a geology major at The College of Wooster, knew he wanted to […]

Rebecca LaRue

From the Parks to the Polls: National Parks, Place Attachment, and Environmental Voting Behavior

Name: Rebecca LaRue Major: Political Science (U.S. National Politics) Minors: Geology, Education Advisors: Dr. Bas van Doorn My project examines the relationship between National […]

Justine Paul Berina

Unearthing the effects of European-American settlement on a northeast Ohio kettle lake through diatom stratigraphy

Name: Justine Paul Berina Major: Geology Advisors: Mark Wilson & Greg Wiles Recently, wetland conservation has highlighted the necessity for assessing limnological changes following […]

Students participate in B-wiser Science Camp in 2019.

B-WISER Summer Science Camp runs June 12-17

The Buckeye Women in Science, Engineering, and Research (B-WISER), an educational partnership of The College of Wooster and the Martha Holden Jennings Foundation, will […]

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Department of Earth Sciences receives donation of 10 MOVE suite software licences from Petroleum Exports Ltd.

The Department of Earth Sciences at The College of Wooster announced that Petroleum Experts Ltd. recently donated 10 licenses of its MOVE suite software […]

Trinda Bedrossian ’69

Trinda Bedrossian ’69 captures 165 years of California’s geological history

Following the 150-year anniversary of the California Geological Survey (CGS), Trinda Bedrossian ’69, a geology major at The College of Wooster, felt inspired to […]

Justine Paul Berina

APEX Fellowship | Justine Paul Berina

Major: Geology Class Year: 2022 Pronouns: He/Him/His Faculty Mentor: Dr. David McConnell As a GIS intern at the World Wildlife Fund, I mapped the […]

Grace Braver

APEX Fellowship | Grace Braver

Major: Geology Class Year: 2023 Pronouns: She/Her/Hers Faculty Mentor: Dr. Leslie Wingard As a wrangler for the French Broad Outpost Ranch in Del Rio, […]