For: Saturday, August 30, 2008

Genome Jamboree Attracts Scientists from Around the World

WOOSTER, Ohio - As thousands of area residents prepared to celebrate Wooster's Bicentennial parade earlier this month, a small group of scientists was wrapping up a much less conspicuous but arguably more ambitious undertaking at The College of Wooster. Eighteen researchers and educators from around the world, including Turkey, France, and Japan, descended on Wooster's campus for the inaugural Paramecium Genome Workshop and Annotation Jamboree, June 30-July 2.

Sound like fun? Maybe not to the average Joe, but to these scientists, it was both enjoyable and educational. The purpose of the workshop was to assemble members of the genome community and show them how to correct and re-annotate inaccurate information in the existing database. "The computer looks at a variety of sequences, but it often makes errors," said Dean Fraga, associate professor of biology at Wooster and host for the workshop. "One common type of error is what can be called an 'assembly error, and these can be readily identified and corrected by properly trained people, including students."

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Emerging Scholars Get a Taste of College Life before Classes Begin

WOOSTER, Ohio - What if incoming college students could get a taste of campus life before the first day of class? What if they had a chance to take a course, live in a residence hall, and sample the food? Would such an experience increase their chances for success?

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Walter Zurko's Sculptures on Display in Cincinnati

Walter Zurko addresses the splendor and the utility of early agrarian tools /implements in "piece•work," an exhibition of his sculpture currently on display at the Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery located in the Aronoff Center in Cincinnati.

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