A master’s student in the Environmental Sciences Graduate Program, Ellen Danford was awarded the Chile Science Initiative Research Award in Chile for “Establishing the Codling Moth Parasitoid, Mastrus Ridens, with the Help of Native Plants.” The project seeks to combat the invasive codling moth, an insect which preys on fruit crops and threatens production worldwide, through the introduction of its natural predator, the wasp Mastrus Ridens. She will be affiliated with La Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Her advisor is Mary Gardiner.