Evaluation
Research and projects related to evaluation in the Lamm Lab
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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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As the 5-year Healthier Together CDC-funded project comes to an end next month, the effect of the partnership between UGA’s College of Public Health, College of Family and Consumer Sciences, College of Environment and Design and College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (more specifically UGA Extension) is still having impact. Proud to have led the…
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Dr. Alexa Lamm and Dr. Millicent Oyugi attended the NSF’s Eddie Bernice Johnson INCLUDES Aspire Alliance Summit hosted on July 19 – 20, 2023, at UCLA’s Luskin Center in Los Angeles, CA. The Aspire Alliance Summit regarded systemic change for an inclusive and diverse faculty and explored key issues regarding advancing STEM faculty diversity and…
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Lamm Lab members traveled over the Blue Ridge Mountains to beautiful Asheville, North Carolina, to discuss communication research and application at the 2023 Association for Communication Excellence Conference. During the three-day conference session, lab members presented both papers and posters and attended professional development workshops in which they had the opportunity to learn about challenges…
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After my summer research assistantship with the Lamm Lab in 2022, I had a strong desire to dive further into research about the Healthier Together program. I loved getting to work directly with the Healthier Together communities and I wanted to continue to support the mission of Healthier Together so I decided to apply for…
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This semester, I had the opportunity to work on a research abstract in collaboration with the Lamm Lab and I presented the abstract at the University of Georgia’s Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities (CURO) Symposium. The symposium was held on April 3, 2023, in the Classic Center in Athens, GA. My research was a part…
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As an undergraduate researcher in the Lamm Lab, I had the opportunity to participate in UGA’s Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities’ (CURO) 2023 Spring Symposium held in Athens, Georgia. The research I presented focused on determining the reach and uptake of the Healthier Together program in five rural counties of Georgia that were impacted by…
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Members of the Lamm Lab traveled to Oklahoma City in February to participate in the Southern Region American Association for Agricultural Education conference. With the support of Dr. Alexa Lamm, members of the lab presented the following posters and papers about their current research projects. Examining if the NSF INCLUDES Aspire Alliance Teaching Practicum Improved…
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Members of the Lamm Lab presented oral presentations and posters at the Southern Rural Sociological Association’s annual conference in Oklahoma City this month. All presentations at SRSA highlighted the work done by the Healthier Together project’s evaluation and communication team, led by Dr. Alexa Lamm. Evaluation Research Using poetic dialogues as a focus group analysis…
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Researchers Nekeisha Randall, Katie Sanders, Alexa Lamm, and Alison Berg recently published an article in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior to help explain the influence of culture on rural residents’ perceptions of a food access and physical activity intervention. The intervention, called Healthier Together, aims to increase policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) changes…