Education
She was the first westerner to study the ang-khak fermentation of rice using Monascus purpureus (see: Church, 1920), and studied other Asian soy fermentations involving the fungus known as Aspergillus oryzae.
She was the first westerner to study the ang-khak fermentation of rice using Monascus purpureus (see: Church, 1920), and studied other Asian soy fermentations involving the fungus known as Aspergillus oryzae.
She co-authored the first manual on Aspergillus with Charles Thom and worked with Thom on his treatise on Penicillium. This research culminated in her writing a United States Department of Agriculture bulletin entitled Soy and Related Fermentations in 1923. In 1928 she took on a role as the Head of Biology at Urbana University, Urbana, Ohio, prior to her retirement in 1939.