Alexa Lamm

  • Lamm Lab team members Catherine Sanders (former), Kristin Gibson, Allison R. Byrd, Tatevik Markosyan, and Alexa J. Lamm worked to identify the best ways to communicate with rural Georgia residents about their health – including increasing physical activity and eating healthier foods – as part of the CDC funded Healthier Together project. Through their efforts,…

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  • Markosyan Enters Doctoral Candidacy

    Please help us celebrate Tata Markosyan‘s successful defense of her comprehensive exams. Her committee, chaired by Dr. Alexa Lamm and made up of Dr. Kevan Lamm, Dr. Peng Lu, and Dr. Katie Sanders (of NCSU) passed her with flying colors. Tata plans to engage in dissertation research exploring how we best capture and communicate evaluation…

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  • The Lamm Lab is proud to be part of an interdisciplinary team striving to increase consumer awareness of the how upcycled food can reduce food waste, a major issue in the United States. The team, led by Dr. Peng Lu, received a 2023 Presidential Interdisciplinary Seed Grant to support preliminary research exploring consumer perceptions. Consisting…

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  • A hearty CONGRATULATIONS to both Dr. Kristin Gibson and Dr. Allison Byrd as they took center stage at the Stegeman Coliseum last Thursday to get their terminal degrees conferred. Officially hooded and on their way to change the world as they build their own faculty labs. So incredibly proud!

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  • Congratulations to Olivia Erskine who graduated with her masters degree from UGA last Thursday. While she is still on the job hunt, we know BIG things will come from the work she chooses to do! We are so proud of you and will miss you in the Lamm Lab!

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  • Reflections on Undergraduate Research

    During my time as an undergraduate researcher in Dr. Alexa Lamm’s lab, which spanned nearly three years, I have gained a wealth of experience and knowledge that I truly could not have found elsewhere. Working on various projects in different roles has really expanded my skill set beyond what I could have imagined. I feel…

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  • Dossani Gives Final CURO Presentation

    Yesterday marked the final research presentation Saher Dossani will give as an undergraduate student. She presented her research project at UGA’s Center for Undergraduate Research (CURO) Symposium for the third time after completing a research fellowship this past summer in the Lamm Lab working closely with Dr. Kristin Gibson and Dr. Alexa Lamm. Saher’s research…

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  • The Lamm Lab recently wrapped up a 5-year formative and summative evaluation of the Healthier Together project funded by the Centers for Disease Control in conjunction with the UGA College of Public Health. We often begin projects like this one, an interdisciplinary Extension effort designed to reduce obesity by increasing access to healthy food and…

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  • The global importance of critical thinking in enhancing academic success, employability, civic engagement, and mental health is universally acknowledged. Yet, its cultivation in educational systems, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, is largely unexplored and unmeasured. This gap is pronounced in Kenya’s higher education, where a recent paradigm shift in its educational curriculum has left room for…

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  • A hearty congratulations to Olivia Erskine who passed her Master’s thesis defense with flying colors March 21st. Her innovative, mixed-methods, research included conducting interviews with garden coordinators working in gardens directly impacting thir local food system and surveying members of the U.S. public engaged in community gardens. She asked them to think about and place importance on climate…

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