Teaching and Learning
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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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Dr. Lamm was recognized as a Fellow this May at the annual meeting, joining a group of distinguished agricultural educators and scholars. The purpose of the Fellow award is to recognize members of the association who have made exceptional contributions to, and impacts on, the profession and AAAE and who show great promise for continued…
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Members of the Lamm Lab attended the American Association for Agricultural Education’s national conference in Raleigh, North Carolina, from May 15-18. With support from Dr. Alexa Lamm and the UGA ALEC Department, lab members Kristin Gibson and Allison Byrd traveled to Raleigh to network with colleagues from other universities across the U.S., learn about innovative…
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As the busy spring semester ended, members of the Lamm Lab packed their suitcases to kick off the summer conference season. Drs. Alexa Lamm, Millicent Oyugi, and Katie Sanders, along with doctoral student Allison Byrd, traveled to Guelph, Ontario, to present their research at the annual conference of the Association for International Agricultural and Extension…
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After four years in the Lamm Lab, Dr. Katie Sanders has officially walked across the stage and received her doctoral hood. As she embarks on her newest adventures as an Assistant Professor of Food Systems Communication at North Carolina State University, we wish her all the best and can’t wait to see what she accomplishes…
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Allison has been working this past year to identify the best strategies for communicating agricultural and environmental science to prospective graduate students, an important and often overlooked audience for Colleges of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences. She interviewed top notch students from every department in the UGA CAES to identify where they went for scientific information…
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The Lamm Lab celebrated the end of spring semester and the academic year by a lab lunch outing at a local favorite Thai spot in Athens. Lab members shared their plans for summer research – including dissertation writing, comprehensive exams, travel to conferences, summer classes, and hosting undergraduate researchers. Dr. Lamm also shared updates on…
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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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Thrilled to share Dr. Catherine (Katie) Sanders passed her dissertation defense with flying colors on January 17th. Paving the way for amazing things, Katie is the first to complete this crucial step in the new ALEC PhD program and did us proud showing us all how it is done, and done well! Her research, titled…
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Authors Katie Sanders, Allison Fortner, Kristin Gibson, and Alexa Lamm, along with co-author Kevan Lamm, recently published an article in the Journal of Agricultural Education piloting the use of hypothetical case scenarios in undergraduate agricultural and natural resource classrooms to enhance students’ systems thinking capacities. Systems thinking is a framework that focuses on the interconnected…