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The entire Lamm Lab wants to congratulate Dennis Baffour-Awuah on being awarded the Outstanding Research Paper Presentation AND second runner up Outstanding Research Poster at this year’s NACS conference. His research paper was presented in the Distinguished Manuscript Tract. Titled Exploring Scientific Messaging about Gene-Edited Pigs Using Music as a Hedonic Cue, the work was…
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At the Southern American Association for Agricultural Education S-AAAE conference, Dr. Alexa Lamm delivered a research presentation from a study conducted with Haoming Fan and Dr. Kevan Lamm titled Literature Review on the Development of Systems Thinking in Agriculture. The study was part of the STEPS: Systems Thinking in Higher Education project funded by a USDA Higher Education Challenge Grant…
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As crop production increasingly shifts from soil to soilless media, the demand for soilless substrates has skyrocketed, creating a need for new ideas and innovations that move beyond peat and explore alternative materials to provide growers with more options moving forward. The soilless substrate science project (S3), for which the Lamm Lab leads social science…
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Upcycled products have emerged as an innovative approach to addressing food waste by creating new, high-quality products from surplus food. Despite its benefits, such as tackling environmental, economic, and social food concerns by reducing waste, adding value to the food system through economic gains, and providing more affordable food options, it faces misconceptions among the…
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On November 19, 2025 Michael Batame took part in the 10th Anniversary celebration of YouthMappers in New York and was honored to be chosen by the YouthMappers Steering Committee as one of the distinguished former members to speak at the global event. Michael gave a presentation on “Agriculture and Food Security,” highlighting a project supported…
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The annual D.W. Brooks Signature Event is one of the the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CAES) most prestigious gatherings at the University of Georgia, recognizing faculty and staff for their outstanding contributions. It also commemorates David William Brooks (1901-199), founder of Gold Kist, Inc., the first inductee into the UGA Agricultural Hall of…
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On the eleventh episode of the Agricurious podcast, Dennis Baffour-Awuah, the Lamm Lab’s Artistic Scientist, spoke with two researchers from the USDA-funded Eastern Tree Fruit Project. The project, of which the Lamm Lab serves as the sociological team, is targeted at improving pest management and increasing resilience in apple and peach production systems across the Eastern United…
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The Lamm Lab recently published an article titled Healthy Harvests: Reducing Plastic Use and Associated Water Contaminants in U.S. Greenhouses and Nurseries, authored by Masoud Yazdanpanah and Alexa Lamm at the University of Georgia, Jim Owen and James Altland at USDA ARS, and Sarah White at Clemson University. The study explored the environmental and behavioral…
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Last month, the Vitis x Muscadinia project held its inaugural meeting in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Titled “Through the Grapevine: Developing Vitis x Muscadinia Wide Hybrids for Enhanced Disease Resistance and Quality,” the project is funded by the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Specialty Crop Initiative and is in its first…
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A new study led by Dr. Alexa Lamm in collaboration with Dr. Kevan Lamm, Dr. Allison Byrd, Dr. Masoud Yazdanpanah, Dr. Nicholas Gabler, Dr. Anna Johnson, Dr. Catherine Sanders, Dr. Fallys Masambuka-Kanchewa and Dr. Michael Retallick examined how consumers perceive the transparency of agricultural science messages on social media when they learn the content was generated…