During the last semester, Anastasia and Yasu helped the Amherst Middle School science club students, who wanted to find the best way for cafeteria workers to handle apples. Currently, the cafeteria workers are required to follow a time-consuming protocol, but the students questioned if it is the best way. Their experiments led them to propose that a simpler method is more effective in keeping bacterial counts on apples low. Click here for more information.

Congratulations to Grace and Anastasia for being chosen as recipients of the UMass Commonwealth Honors Research Grant 2016. These awards will provide funds for their research projects here in the Morita Lab.