Melissa Ladenheim

Degrees
B.A. Hamilton College
M.E.S. Yale University
Ph.D. Memorial University of Newfoundland

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Profile

Melissa was one of the founding members of the Honors College聽Sustainable Food Systems Research Collaborative (SFSRC). As part of SFSRC, she actively participated in mentoring students, coordinating programs, teaching a sustainable food systems tutorial and聽 engaging with community partners working in this area. She was a co-PI on the USDA-NIFA-funded (2018-2020), which grew out of the Sustainable Food Systems Research Collaborative. Melissa has been actively involved in the Cooperative Extension’s The Maine Hunger Dialogue, which recently awarded a grant to students in the Honors College working to address issues related to food insecurity.

Additionally, she played major roles in organizing two very successful sessions for the Maine Water and Sustainability Conference in 2015 and 2016.

Melissa has been the recipient of several awards recognizing her commitment to community-engagement including in 2012 the Donald Harward Faculty Award for Service-Learning Excellence given by MaineCampus Compact, the Dean Lucy Award in 2016, given by the University of Maine Bodwell Center for Service and Volunteerism to 鈥渞ecognize a faculty or staff member who has gone out of his/her way in service to the University of Maine community and surrounding area,鈥 and the Steve Gould Award in 2017.

Selected Publications

Tims, K., Haggerty, M., Jemison, J., Ladenheim, M., Mullis, S. and Damon, E. (2020). Gardening for Change: Community Giving Gardens and Senior Food Insecurity. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development. submitted.

Velardi, S., Leahy, J., Collum, K., McGuire, J., & Ladenheim, M. (2021).鈥淵ou treat them right, They’ll treat you right鈥: Understanding beekeepers’ scale management decisions within the context of bee values. , 27-36.

Velardi, S., Leahy, J., Collum, K., McGuire, J., & Ladenheim, M. (2020). Adult learning theory principles in knowledge exchange networks among maple syrup producers and beekeepers in Maine. The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 1-18.

Amar, F. G., Haggerty, M., Ladenheim, M., Silka, L., Welcomer, S., & Jemison, J. (2016). Leveraging the Research Capacity of the Doctoral University for Honors Education: The” Research Collaborative” Model. HONORS in Higher Education (HHE), 1.

Mullis, S., Blackstone, A., Haggerty, M., Jemison, J. and Ladenheim, M. 鈥淥rono Community Gardens Reap Good for Us All.鈥 Op. Ed.聽 Bangor Daily News, 8 June 2016, p. A7.

Ladenheim, Melissa聽(with Linda Silka, Robert Glover, Karen Hutchins, Laura Lindenfeld, Amy Blackstone, Catherine Elliott, and Claire Sullivan). (2013). 聽聽聽聽聽Moving Beyond the Single Discipline: Building a Scholarship of Engagement that Permeates Higher Education.聽聽聽聽 聽Community Engaged Scholarship. Spec. issue of聽Tamara: Journal for Critical Organizational Inquiry聽11.4 (2013): 41-52. Web.聽 11 Dec. 2013.