Agricultural Production
Research and projects within the Lamm Lab related to agricultural production.
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Katie Sanders, Tatevik Markosyan, and Alexa Lamm, members of the Healthier Together evaluation team, traveled to Calhoun, Clay, Dooly, Stewart, and Taliaferro counties during November to report findings from the 2021-2022 evaluation of the project. Healthier Together is a CDC-funded health promotion project led by Cooperative Extension to increase access to healthy foods and physical…
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Katie Sanders, a doctoral candidate in the Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communication department at the University of Georgia, travelled to Boston, Massachusetts this month to present research at the American Public Health Association. Sanders, part of the evaluation team for Healthier Together, participated in a roundtable discussion about the challenges evaluating rural communities and how…
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Undergraduate field work research assistant Emily Armstrong describes her summer on the Healthier Together team, assisting in research across rural Georgia counties.
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Undergraduate researcher and evaluator Saher Dossani describes her experience analyzing survey data from Healthier Together communities during summer 2022.
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Tran describes how her undergraduate research experience with Healthier Together enriched her public health major
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Logan Hartzell highlights the importance of conducting undergraduate research to enhance community-engaged service learning
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Doctoral candidate Katie Sanders published a pilot article for her dissertation focused on identity-oriented evaluation
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Undergraduate researcher Kasi Romo describes her experience conducting summer research for the Healthier Together Communications team
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Allison Fortner, Kristin Gibson, Katie Sanders, and Dr. Alexa Lamm travelled to San Jose, Costa Rica in late June to share research and learn from fellow social scientists at the International Association for Society and Natural Resources conference. The team presented one organized session, one paper, and one poster. Systems Thinking The Costa Rican rain…
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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…