Alexa Lamm
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Research capacity is crucial to successfully completing a thesis or dissertation and obtaining a graduate degree. Unfortunately, in Sub-Saharan Africa, many students abandon or delay their degrees due to limited research and writing skills. Seeing this problem first hand when she was an instructor in Kenya, Dr. Millicent Oyugi aimed to identify the most critical…
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Many think that technology adoption, especially when it is designed to solve with the same problem, would be adopted at the same rate. Dr. Alexa Lamm and her colleagues found this wasn’t true in the case of nursery and greenhouse growers as part of the WateR3 project, funded by the USDA SCRI. In fact, growers…
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Kristin Gibson is the graduate student in the Lamm Lab striving to assist the Healthier Together project in communicating as effectively as possible. She coordinates social media, promotes all aspects of project branding, assists with the community newsletter, and writes press releases so the greater academic and Georgia community hears about all the wonderful things…
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The Lamm Lab is excited to welcome Olivia Erskine as the newest Masters student to join the team. Olivia graduated from Clemson University in 2020 with a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental and Natural Resources with a concentration in Natural Resources and Economic Policy. During her time as an undergraduate student, she researched urban farming and…
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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…