Holli Leggette

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Professional Summary

Holli Leggette joined the Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communications in 2014 as an assistant professor and was promoted to associate professor in 2020. She has more than 15 years of experience as a scholar, researcher, and practitioner. Dr. Leggette teaches courses in writing, research, and public engagement. Dr. Leggette’s research focuses on investigating effective methods for preparing scientists to be communicators of science, applying those effective methods to designing and delivering science communication training programs, and conducting needs assessments and audience analyses to build audience profiles of science constituents to provide scientists with action-based research outcomes they can use to design and develop research projects, educational programs, and production tools. She has >40 journal publications (as well as numerous abstracts, scientific reports, and conferences presentations) and has served as a PI or Co-PI of ~$69 million in extramurally funded projects. Dr. Leggette teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in media writing, research writing, and public engagement. She earned the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences’ Vice Chancellor’s Award of Excellence for Early Career Research in 2019 and the NACTA Educator Award in 2018. In 2021, her research team won the NACTA Bob Gough Teaching Tip Award for their 2017 USDA-funded Higher Education Challenge project.

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