Recent Posts
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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 research papers and posters at the National Agricultural Communications Symposium in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma from February 3-7, 2023.
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Authors: Kristin Gibson and Dr. Alexa Lamm Kristin Gibson’s research presentation about single-use bottled water purchasing intention was awarded the 2023 Outstanding Research Paper at the National Agricultural Communications Symposium held in Oklahoma City, OK. The manuscript was also identified as a distinguished paper. The study will be used to guide her dissertation research under…
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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…
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Authors: Dr. Laura Warner, Dr. Alexa Lamm, and Kristin Gibson Dr. Alexa Lamm and Kristin Gibson coauthored a manuscript with Dr. Laura Warner, an associate professor at the University of Florida, about normative influences on landscape irrigation in Florida. The article, published in Society & Natural Resources, examined behavior change interventions for residential landscape irrigation…
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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…
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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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If research and innovation are to improve in Sub-Saharan Africa, graduate students must learn how to conduct quality research, data analysis, and research writing. This is the subject of the paper authored by Dr. Millicent Oyugi, Dr. Mathew Baker, Dr. Alexa Lamm, and Dr. Kevan Lamm recently published in the Journal of International Agricultural Extension…