The online application site is now open for Wooster In Israel & Palestine/History 228 at https://selectsurvey.wooster.edu//TakeSurvey.aspx?SurveyID=821H372 For more information, see the program page at http://www.wooster.edu/Academics/Off-Campus-Study/Wooster_in_Programs/CurrentPastPrograms/WoosterInIsraelAndPalestine The application deadline is September 30. Accepted students will be notified by October 10 and must commit either by October 21 (Class of 2012) or October 28 (Classes of 2013 and 2014). Please… Read More
Category: Study Abroad
Senior I.S. Copeland Fund Trip to Vietnam
In August of 2011, I traveled to Vietnam on a generous grant from the Copeland Fund. My Senior I.S. is an oral history of the South Vietnamese civilian experience during the Vietnam War, roughly between 1968 and 1975. I conducted interviews with a FlipCam borrowed from the Office of Instructional Technology. Among the eight individuals… Read More
Interested in Studying in Italy this Summer?
Please join us Wednesday night at 7 pm for an informational meeting for Wooster Summer in Tuscany 2011. This program offers two full Wooster credits for a month of intensive study in Siena Italy. See you in Kauke Tower Wednesday, December 8, from 7pm to 8pm. If you can not make the meeting please see… Read More
How to Apply for Lilly Summer Grants
This Tuesday, November 30 at 7:00 in Severance 009, representatives from the Lilly Program will be holding an information session on “How to Apply” for (funded) Summer Vocational Exploration Fellowships. At this session, you’ll receive a handbook, hear helpful suggestions on how to apply, hear expectations from representatives of the selection committees, and get a… Read More
Off-Campus Study Fair Today!!!
Thinking about studying off campus? The annual Off-Campus Study Fair will be held on Tuesday, November 16 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the main lobby of Lowry. Representatives of nearly all of the more than 200 international and domestic off-campus programs will be on hand to answer your questions about their programs and… Read More
Trip to Moscow
Yesterday I visited an old friend, Devochka s persikami (Girl With Peaches), one of my favorite paintings at Moscow’s Tretiakov Gallery. Given the serenity of the canvases that Valentin Serov (1865-1911) painted in the late 19th and early 20th century, it’s hard to imagine that Russia was only a few years away from the violent… Read More
Kendall-Rives Latin American Research Grant
The Kendall-Rives Latin American Research Grant for Sophomores and Juniors makes approximately $2,000 available each year to one or more Wooster sophomores or juniors to support a research project on some aspect of United States-Latin American Relations. Funds are to be used during the current academic year, including the summer months. Research projects must be… Read More
Christopher Culbertson’s Work with Fundación Chol-Chol
Christopher Culbertson (Cultural Area Studies: Latin American History) has always had an intensely personal interest in Chilean culture and history. Christopher was born in Santiago to a Mapuche woman, but has lived in the United States since he was six months old. He and his North American family have traveled to Chile in the intervening… Read More