Alexa Lamm
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The Cultivating Tomorrow’s Orchard: Evolving and Enhancing IPM in Eastern Tree Fruit Systems project team met in Kearneysville, West Virginia March 3 – 5, 2026 to share their findings from the first year and a half of the project with 20 members of their stakeholder advisory panel. Advisory panel members included apple and peach growers,…
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Lamm Lab members Michael Batame, Megan Meyer, Funmi Ajiferuke, Gracie Grimes, and Dennis Baffour-Awuah all shined bright as they presented research in three different sections of the Southern Association of Agricultural Sciences meeting in Louisville, Kentucky January 31 – February 3. These included the National Agricultural Communications Symposium, the Southern Region of the American Society…
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The entire Lamm Lab wants to congratulate Dennis Baffour-Awuah on being awarded the Outstanding Research Paper Presentation AND second runner up Outstanding Research Poster at this year’s NACS conference. His research paper was presented in the Distinguished Manuscript Tract. Titled Exploring Scientific Messaging about Gene-Edited Pigs Using Music as a Hedonic Cue, the work was…
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The Lamm Lab recently published an article titled Healthy Harvests: Reducing Plastic Use and Associated Water Contaminants in U.S. Greenhouses and Nurseries, authored by Masoud Yazdanpanah and Alexa Lamm at the University of Georgia, Jim Owen and James Altland at USDA ARS, and Sarah White at Clemson University. The study explored the environmental and behavioral…
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Last month, the Vitis x Muscadinia project held its inaugural meeting in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Titled “Through the Grapevine: Developing Vitis x Muscadinia Wide Hybrids for Enhanced Disease Resistance and Quality,” the project is funded by the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Specialty Crop Initiative and is in its first…
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Manuel Morales at Los Arroyos Nursery
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Dr. Alexa Lamm recently visited with the UC Davis CLEAR Center to tour their facilities and explore several opportunities for future collaborations. The Clarity and Leadership for Environmental Awareness and Research Center, or CLEAR Center, helps the animal agriculture industry operate more efficiently while lessening its impact on the environment and climate. The primary research…
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Dr. Alexa Lamm and Dr. Kevan Lamm recently visited with Dr. Pedro Carvalho, Feedlot specialist, and Erica Geisenhagen, Manager of Communications at AgNext – an innovative Center at Colorado State University striving to innovate real-world solutions for sustainability in animal agriculture. Just three years in the making, this new center is conducting research on beef…
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The Lamm Lab is thrilled to celebrate the successful defense of Dr. Tatevik Markosyan’s dissertation, “Communicating Impact Evaluation Findings: An Audience-Centered Data Visualization Experiment.” In an age where data is abundant but trust is fragile, how we communicate evaluation findings can make or break public understanding and engagement. Dr. Markosyan’s research tackled a critical question: How can we…
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Scientists are really smart! I feel so fortunate because I have had the opportunity to work alongside and speak with some of the most intelligent hard working innovators throughout my time as an extension agent, specialist and now professor of science communication. Amazing things come from scientific innovation and bright minded scientists with a passion…