Ryan H. Lee (ALRS) Ph.D. Candidate and Alumna in the news!
Ryan H. Lee, Arid Lands Resource Sciences Ph.D. candidate is also the UA LEAF* graduate coordinator, who led members in harvesting olives from historic campus trees and have them pressed into olive oil at the Queen Creek Olive Mill in Queen Creek, Arizona.
Other LEAF efforts have focused on fruit harvests in conjunction with the Iskashitaa(link is external) Refugee Network. Iskashitaa’s Director & Founder is Barbara Eiswerth, ALRS alumna and adjunct professor with Arid Lands Resources Sciences, as well as a coordinator for UA LEAF.
*LEAF – Linking Edible Arizona Forests. Read More from this article: “Saving Food From the Dumpster: The UA’s Edible Campus”(link is external)
From left: Undergraduate volunteer Michael George Bernal, undergraduate intern Tori Scaven, LEAF co-PI Melanie Lenart, and undergraduate LEAF interns Ashley Hodes and Haley Anderson show off the olives picked at the harvest on Nov. 11. (Photo: Ann Posegate)