Sara Moore Science Editor On Wednesday, Nov. 4, The College of Wooster welcomed Robin Wall Kimmerer for the Peter Mortensen Lecture, which was held in Freedlander Theatre. Kimmerer is the author of “The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World,” which freshmen read as …
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Sara’s Selections: Ohio Roadside Attractions
S: Hell is Real sign (Mt. Sterling), Scioto Deer (Columbus), Cornhenge (Dublin), Tim Minsy Billboards (Northeast Ohio) A: Big Basket Building (Newark), World’s Largest Horseshoe Crab (Hillsboro), Pumpkin Water Tower (Circleville), Campbell’s Soup Can Sculpture (Napoleon) B: World’s Largest Cuckoo Clock (Sugarcreek), World’s Largest Outdoor …
Students give haunting performances at Spooky Covers
Sara Moore Science Editor On Thursday, Oct. 29, The Goliard Literary Magazine hosted its first music event of the year, Spooky Covers. This year’s event was hosted at The Underground (UG) as part of their Halloween week programming. Spooky Covers gave students the opportunity to …
Celebrating National Chemistry week with RNR synthesis
Celeste Probart Contributing Writer National Chemistry week, the week of Oct. 23, marks the chemistry department’s annual Helen Murray Free lecture series. This year’s speaker was Catherine Drennan, a biochemist from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Drennan began her …
Night of the living ants: zombie parasitism
Sara Moore Science Editor While human zombies do not walk among us, there are “zombies” who exist in nature. Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, more commonly known as the zombie-ant fungus, is an insect-pathogenic fungus that targets members of the tribe Camponotini — most often carpenter ants. While …