Alexa Lamm Research
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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…
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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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New research from the Lamm Lab helps explain why climate change perceptions are often politically divided
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Allison Fortner, a second-year doctoral student studying science communication in the University of Georgia’s Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communication Department, recently published an article in the Journal of Applied Communication. Co-authors in the research project included Dr. Alexa Lamm, Dr. Abigail Borron, Dr. Jessica Holt, and Dr. Allen Moore. An article from Fortner’s master’s thesis,…
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Kristin Gibson, a doctoral student in the Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication program at the University of Georgia, recently published an article exploring the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on environmental engagement among United States residents. The article, published in Frontiers in Environmental Science, is part of a larger project examining opinions on information during the…
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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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Science education and communication students do not often see themselves as scientists although the future of science is highly dependent upon effective science communication. Dr. Fallys Masambuka-Kanchewa, previous post doc in the Lamm Lab and Dr. Alexa Lamm were interested in determining if a science communication course could alter graduate students’ perceptions of scientists and…
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Research capacity is crucial to successfully completing a thesis or dissertation and obtaining a graduate degree. Unfortunately, in Sub-Saharan Africa, many students abandon or delay their degrees due to limited research and writing skills. Seeing this problem first hand when she was an instructor in Kenya, Dr. Millicent Oyugi aimed to identify the most critical…