Alexa Lamm
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The Lamm Lab is thrilled to welcome Mrs. Tatevik Markosyan to the University of Georgia as the newest doctoral student in the lab. Tatevik (Tata) is a public development specialist with more than 15 years of professional experience. Since 2013, she has been working at UNDP Armenia supporting project implementation and coordination in the field…
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The collaborative nature of the Healthier Together project stands as an example for those striving to make rural communities healthier through improving access to resources needed to engage in physical activity, improving food policies and making healthier food more accessible. The partnership between UGA Extension, the College of Public Health and the College of Environment…
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Allison Fortner, a doctoral student in the Lamm Lab, just completed an eight-week international internship in Paris and on France’s Brittany Coast, where she worked as a science communicator with the Safe Seaweed Coalition, a global partnership established in 2021 to support a safe and sustainable seaweed industry. The internship fulfilled the requirements of Fortner’s International Agriculture…
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Lamm worked side by side with horticulture faculty and extension specialists from across the U.S. to study the human side of soilless substrate adoption as part of the Specialty Crops Research initiative – Grant No. 2020-02629 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Through focus groups with speciality crop growers and interviews with…
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A collaborative study conducted with the African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (AFAAS), researchers at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), and ALEC faculty, graduate students and post docs led to being recognized for their innovative work. The study used a single instrumental case study to assess the career preparedness of youth participating in a…
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Dr. Lamm worked with a multi-disciplinary team of academics and scientists to assess the current and future state of soilless substrate research in North America through support from the USDA Specialty Crops Research Initiative. Through this project, we developed a protocol to assess grower and supplier needs across crop types to shed light on the…
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On February 13, 2022, Dr. Oyugi Millicent shared her dissertation findings focused on personal and contextual factors predicting agriscience teaching self-efficacy at the Southern Region Conference of the American Association for Agricultural Education (S-AAAE). Drawing from social cognitive theory, she utilized Binomial Logistic Regression to determine the log odds of observing high or low agriscience…
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Allison Fortner‘s research (presented by Dr. Abigail Borron) was identified as one of the top research papers at the National Agricultural Communications Symposium held in New Orleans, LA in early February. Her work, supported by the UGA Agricultural Experiment Station was noted as innovative and impactful, providing a guide for Colleges of Agriculture and Environmental…
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The need for soilless substrates is expected to double as urban agriculture expands and quality soil deteriorates. Lamm and Gibson presented two research studies at the Southern Region Meeting of the American Society for Horticultural Sciences in New Orleans February 11 & 12. Their work identified the research and extension education needs of specialty crop…
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The Lamm Lab serves as the evaluator of the CDC-funded Healthier Together project in collaboration with the UGA College of Public Health, UGA Extension, UGA College of Environment and Design, and the UGA College of Family and Consumer Sciences. Each year the annual evaluation results are shared with the community coalition using an appreciative lens…