The Professional Development Committee is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2023 USAIN Research Fellows Award.

Inga Haugen of Virginia Tech received funding for “The New Farmers of America Research Guide,” to be funded for $4,000. “The New Farmers of Virginia materials will be found from the main collection, donated materials, and from our archives, gathered into a collection, and a preservation plan created, which may include a digitization plan.” Maggie Albro, University of Tennessee, and Hanwen Dong, University of Idaho’s proposal, “Using Digital Learning Objects for Instructional Support for Faculty in Agricultural Sciences: A Pilot Study” was also funded for $2,000. “This research project aims to understand better how agriculture faculty use digital learning objects (DLOs) in their current courses, emphasizing DLOs used for information literacy instruction.”

Congratulations! We look forward to hopefully hearing more about their research projects at USAIN 2024 in Michigan!

- USAIN Research Fellows Award committee members: Britt Foster, Brad Brazzeal, Andrea Kepsel, Kristen Mastel, and Kelly Weigand