A pair of Amarillo College students learned a great deal more about mosquitoes this summer than they ever thought they might.

They owe it all to the City of Amarillo, AC’s amply equipped STEM Research Center and, yes, a fortuitous reduction in local bus service.

Marcus Baber-Newton and Dustan Francis took part in a special research project in which the College and the City of Amarillo’s Environmental Health Department collaborated to discern if locally captured mosquitoes carried harmful diseases.