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Leaders in research, publications and education
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By: Mathew Baker, Ph.D., and Rebekah Rodriguez, Texas A&M University Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education & Communications
August 23, 2023
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| ALEC faculty are leaders in research, publications, and education. Learn more about their current projects.
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Dara Wald, Ph.D., associate professor, in ALEC is a thought leader in the social and behavioral sciences who realizes technical information alone is not enough to motivate climate adaptive behaviors of agricultural land managers. To motivate action, technical information must also be disseminated through credible sources of scientific information. For her USDA Hatch Project, Wald is on a career quest to identify factors shaping agricultural owners’/producers’ perceptions of scientific source credibility, ascertaining whether or how the factors that drive perceptions of scientific source credibility differ across source type, and how perceptions of source credibility shape agricultural owners’/producers’ responses to climate-smart messages and programs. To this end, Wald has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award.
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Holli Leggette, Ph.D., associate professor, in ALEC focuses on preparing scientists to be communicators of science. Leggette and Gary Wingenbach, Ph.D., professor, led a USDA project to implement a Science Influencers program that trains young scientists how to be digital media influencers and shape conversations impacting America’s diverse audience groups. Leggette and Wingenbach lead a second project for USDA that fosters national-level coordination of opportunities for students, enhances collaboration among other grant-holders, and engages the public with the program, leveraging their expertise in creating and maintaining web-based communication systems for national and international projects, which is critical for effective agricultural science communications.
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A team from ALEC including Bruce Herbert, Ph.D., professor, Jaehyun Ahn, Ph.D., research scientist, Zhihong Xu, Ph.D., associate professor, and Robert Strong, Ph.D., associate professor, are using a suite of analytical tools to monitor social engagement with agricultural research, while others in ALEC including Kim Dooley, Ph.D., professor, Chanda Elbert, Ph.D., associate professor, Jennifer Strong, Ph.D., associate professor, Rafael Landaverde, Ph.D., assistant professor, and Theresa Murphrey, Ph.D., professor, are leading national and international conversations among research stakeholders on approaches to document the societal impacts of transdisciplinary research.
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Kendall Hunt Publishing recently released the Second Edition of its popular college textbook, Ethical Leadership: Theory to Practice authored by Barry Boyd, Ph.D., associate professor, and Jennifer Strong, Ph.D., associate professor.
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Robert Strong, Ph.D., associate professor, will spend the Fall semester on Faculty Development Leave where he will focus on embracing climate-smart agriculture using artificial intelligence quantitative modeling as a researcher and teacher through the mitigation, adaptation, and resiliency of agricultural systems. Strong will visit the campuses of Oxford University, Kings’ College (London), Cambridge University, and Reading University in the United Kingdom, University College, Dublin, as well as Wageningen University and Research in The Netherlands.
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