News & Announcements

New tree fruit logo stickers available

Michelle Reid just announced that the new stickers with the TFREC logo are now available. The stickers are 3″x3″ and sell for $2 each. The proceeds go to support the Wenatchee Graduate Student Association. See Michelle if interested. Update: Megan also has stickers available at the front desk.

Welcome Carolina Torres

Carolina Torres will be joining TFREC in early February 2019. Carolina will lead research on stresses that harm fruit quality, as well as handling technologies, fruit physiology and traits, sensory attributes, and postharvest cultural practices. Sharing her research with partners in industry, the endowed chair will help growers, packers and shippers find and use new […]

New Post Doc for Beers Lab

Kacie Athey joins the Beers lab as a Post Doctoral Scholar investigating sterile insect releases of codling moth in apples. Kacie finished up a post doc at the University of Kentucky investigating the sub lethal effects of insecticides on bed bug behavior. She received her PhD in 2017 from the University of Kentucky where she […]