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The first students funded by a three-year, $300,000 grant<\/a> from the National Science Foundation spent several weeks this summer on biosecurity research and chemistry education in Australia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The group included six students from area universities: two from Eastern Mennonite University, three from Bridgewater College, and one from James Madison University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nicole Miller, Allison O’Brien, and Anika Hurst look at fruitflies in a lab at Queensland\u2019s Department of Agriculture and Fisheries headquarters in Mareeba. (Photo by Jim Yoder)<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

EMU students Anika Hurst<\/strong> and Laura Craft<\/strong>, now back on campus to continue their chemistry and environmental science studies, both said their individual teaching and research experiences helped to confirm where they\u2019re headed next. Hurst hopes to do more field research, while Craft was energized by adapting her water health research learnings to lesson plans for Aboriginal learners from ages 8-18. Nicole Miller \u201821<\/strong>, a graduate of EMU\u2019s chemistry program<\/a>, is considering graduate school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EMU chemistry professor Matthew Siderhurst<\/strong> is the principal investigator for the initiative, which is titled \u201cTephritid fruit fly Multidisciplinary Australian Research Collaboration for Biosecurity,\u201d or T-MARC-BIO for short.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Siderhurst has led insect tracking and field trapping studies<\/a> stateside, in Hawaii and the Pacific region for many years.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The grant is part of the NSF\u2019s International Research Experiences for Students program, designed to give US students multidisciplinary research experience in Australia that will advance basic science and address internationally significant challenges in biosecurity and global food supply chains. The program also aims to foster life-changing learning by enhancing interpersonal skills, empathy, and global awareness that come from living and working outside the US.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A total of six students were funded by the initiative; in addition, a recent EMU graduate was supported by independent research funding. EMU biology professor Jim Yoder<\/strong>, who has led multiple intercultural groups<\/a> to the Pacific region, traveled with the group to connect them with Australian scientists.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Laura Craft (middle) works with students on fluting filter paper before extracting tea tree oil for antioxidant testing. (Photo by Ian Jamie) <\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Four students were hosted by Macquarie University in Sydney, split between two labs with different foci of chemistry education, mentored by Dr. Joanne Jamie<\/strong>, and blowfly research, mentored by Dr. Soo Jean Park<\/strong>; those students were Craft, Mary Shifflett<\/strong> and Emily Schloss <\/strong>from Bridgewater College, and Jacqueline Kossey<\/strong>, from James Madison University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three others were based at Queensland\u2019s Department of Agriculture and Fisheries headquarters in Mareeba and mentored by Stefano De Faveri and Jodie Cheesman. Their research was in tracking fruit flies with harmonic radar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI spent a lot of time out in the papaya field, tracking the Queensland fruit fly using a RECCO unit and flagging tape,\u201d Hurst said, of her teamwork with Allison O’Brien<\/strong>, a Bridgewater College student, and Nicole Miller<\/strong>, a 2022 EMU graduate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tephritid fruit flies are \u201camong the most damaging horticultural insect pests worldwide, constituting pest management issues, trade barriers, and invasion threats for Australia, the U.S., and throughout the tropics and subtropics,\u201d according to T-MARC-BIO documents. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The student research is aimed at bolstering strategies for monitoring and controlling the invasive fruit fly species in ways that will reduce the negative impacts of pesticide use. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having been delayed twice by COVID travel restrictions, Siderhurst was excited to see a first cohort of students begin their travel and research. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two further cohorts of American students will be heading to Australia in 2023 and 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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