Technology@Wooster

The position of Director of Web Services is currently vacant and a search to fill this position is currently underway. In the interim, the Office of Information Technology will provide assistance with essential web content updates. Update requests should be submitted to web-updates@wooster.edu. Requested changes will be processed as quickly as possible. Questions should be directed to Mary Schantz, Manager of User Services.

The Colleague (Datatel) system will be unavailable between the hours of 6:00 p.m. and midnight on Friday, April 18.  During this period important system maintenance will be performed and data will be transferred from the legacy system into Colleague.  ScotWeb will also be unavailable.  We regret any inconvenience this may cause.  Please contact Marlene Brown at x2304 with any questions you may have.

The following podcasts are now available at http://podcast.blogs.wooster.edu:

Evaluation and Species Preservation
Bryan Norton
Bryan Norton is Professor of Philosophy at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Professor Norton’s lecture was delivered at Wooster on March 31 of this year and was the third lecture of the Environmental Analysis and Action Symposium series.

The Earth’s Turmoil of the Last Deglacial Period
James Kennett
James Kennett is Professor of Geological Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. This lecture was delivered at Wooster on March 6 and was part of The Consortium for Ocean Leadership Distinguished Lecturer Series.

Indigenous Peoples Creating, Managing and Conserving Biodiversity
Jan Salick
Jan Salick is Curator of Ethnobotany at Missouri Botanical Garden and Professor of Biology at Washington University in St. Louis. This lecture was delivered at Wooster on March 5 as part of the Environmental Analysis and Action Symposium series.

Mega Eruptions, Mega Impacts, Mass Extinctions, and the Shape of Life
Paul E. Olsen
Paul Olsen is the Arthur D. Storke Memorial Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. His lecture was delivered at Wooster on February 27 and was sponsored by the Department of Geology and the Richard G. Osgood, Jr. Memorial Lecture Endowed Fund.

Tropical Diversity: An Endangered National Treasure
Rodolfo Dirzo
Rodolfo Dirzo is Professor of Biology at Stanford. His lecture was delivered at Wooster on February 20 as part of the Environmental Analysis and Action Symposium series.

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The production of these podcasts is a joint project of the Media Services group and the Department of Instructional Technology, both within the Office of Information Technology. These podcasts may also be downloaded from iTunes. (Search for “College of Wooster.”)Questions about these podcasts or about podcasting at Wooster should be directed to Jon Breitenbucher.

Over the last few days the College webserver (http://www.wooster.edu/) has been experiencing instability.  We are currently working with the Director of Web Services to identify the source of this problem and to correct it.  This instability does not impact ScotWeb.

Should you be unable to reach ScotWeb via the link on the College homepage, please remember that you can access ScotWeb directly at http://scotweb.wooster.edu.