Tag: Amaya Atucha

WIS Alumni Team up for Summer Course

Posted on March 2, 2018

Claudia Irene Calderón (left, WIS ’17) and Amaya Atucha (right, WIS ’15) from the Department of Horticulture are teaming up this summer to teach a course on wine and winemaking. The course will be offered this summer from June 18th through August 12th on Mondays and Wednesdays from 5-7:30. The course, Horticulture 375: Discovering the …

Harvesting Ideas and Fruit with Amaya Atucha

Posted on November 30, 2017

In a lab filled with test tubes and microscopes the last thing one may expect to see are grape seeds and cranberry vines. However, this is necessary as Amaya Atucha and her team are studying the cold hardiness of fruit crops to better understand fruit crop physiology and production. Atucha serves in three main roles: …