New Choose Ohio First scholarships to support STEM students at Wooster
Awarded by the Ohio Department of Higher Education, The College of Wooster will receive a grant of $135,000 to support STEM students between 2027 […]
Wooster Earth sciences and physics professors answer common questions about meteor passing through Northeast Ohio
Tuesday morning, March 17, while The College of Wooster campus was quiet with students on spring break, a meteor streaked across Northeast Ohio, causing […]
Registration opens for B-WISER summer camp inspiring STEM interests in young girls
The Buckeye, Women in Science, Engineering, and Research (B-WISER) summer camp will return for summer 2026, offering young girls currently completing grades seven through […]
Wooster physicist Niklas Manz goes beyond his discipline to study how phenomena get their names
Niklas Manz, associate professor of physics at The College of Wooster, studies the Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction, but why was it named for those two scientists, […]
Sophomore student dug deep into environmental monitoring with remote internship
Michael Jissa ‘28 spent the summer remotely interning for Atnaf, a coal mining company located in his hometown of Ethiopia. Throughout the APEX Fellowship, […]
Physics alumnus becomes lead author on collaborative, peer-reviewed paper on diffusion diodes
Centered around research he conducted as a student mentor during the summer of 2019, physics alumnus Chase Fuller ’19 became the lead author on […]
Research of interdisciplinary chemistry, physics, and computer science team produces publication in Frontiers of Physics
Interdisciplinary research by a team of five faculty members and two students from The College of Wooster recreated a gravitational astrophysical phenomenon in a […]
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. […]
The College of Wooster hosts astronomer and artist Tyler Nordgren for lecture on eclipses Sept. 19
The College of Wooster will host scientist and artist Tyler Nordgren as he presents a lecture titled “See the Sun and Moon Align for […]
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 […]
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 […]
Wooster students share research at American Physical Society regional meeting
Two students who participated in The College of Wooster’s 2022 Research Experience for Undergraduates summer program earned awards for their research at a recent […]
Physics alumna joins international team to launch Webb Telescope
Kirsten Larson ’08 knew that she wanted to study science and do research. When attending The College of Wooster, she chose to major in […]
Professor Manz publishes article as part preservation, part celebration
Niklas Manz, associate professor and department chair of physics at The College of Wooster, recently co-authored an article in Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of […]
Physics professor and alumni publish article about alien suns
John Lindner, emeritus professor of physics at The College of Wooster, and two Wooster alumni, Xinchen (Ariel) Xie ’21 and Hwan (Michelle) Bae ’19, […]
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 […]
Physics article collaboration between faculty and students addresses practical applications of bead pile experiment
Susan Lehman, Victor J. Andrew Professor of Physics at The College of Wooster, recently published an article in Granular Matter, a peer-reviewed journal in […]
Uniting Different Worlds Through Dance and Independent Study
Every August, students come to The College of Wooster from various locations – down the street, out of state, or even overseas – to […]
Students and faculty team up to help local community adapt to climate change
As Northeast Ohioans along with people around the world live through unprecedented levels of natural disasters due to climate change, students and faculty at […]
Interdisciplinary research team publishes article on geographic tongue
Wooster alumni and professors integrate math, physics, computer science, and dentistry in study published in peer-reviewed journal