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Nesma Osama Osman

Postdoctoral Associate
175 West Campus Dr.
Room 2425
Mail Code 0343
Blacksburg, VA 24061

Ph.D.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (May 2022)
Agricultural, Leadership, and Community Education 

M.S.
Mississippi State University (May 2018)
Agricultural and Extension Education

Diploma
School of Management University-LUM Jean Monnet and IAMB Institute in Bari-Italy (May 2016)
Mediterranean Organic Agriculture 

B.S.
Faculty of Agriculture-Cairo University (June 2012)
Agricultural Economics and Social Science

  • Instructor of Record of LDRS 1015 Exploring Citizen Leadership, Fall 2018- Fall 2020.
  • Teaching Assistant of ALCE 3634 Communicating ALS in Speaking (Fall 2019)

Osman, N. & Archibald, T. (2021). Maximizing self-report tools' validity in program evaluation in a virtual context. Abstract of presentation for the Emergent Voices in Evaluation Conference, May 20-21, Greensboro, NC. 

Osman, N., Peterson, D., Downey, L., & Seal, S. (2020). Exploring disabled agricultural workers' professional life before and after using assistive technology: Using the Job Characteristics Model. Proceedings of the Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education Conference, April 20-23, St. Petersburg, FL. 

Culhane, J., Young, C., Woodward, L., Alegbeleye, I. D., Osman, N., & Shayo A. (2019). Sojourner and apprentice: Graduate student experience in Agriculture and Life Sciences. Abstract of presentation for the North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture Conference, June 18-22, Twin Falls, ID.

  • Program planning and evaluation, with an emphasis on planning and evaluating programs that serve underserved communities
  • Participatory approaches, communities of practice, and community development

 

  • Selected poster presentation as one of the eight poster symposium awardees for the Eastern Evaluation Research Society Conference (canceled due to COVID-19) (2020)
  • The second place in Graduate Research Symposium at Mississippi State University (2018)
  • Fulbright Scholarship for pursuing a master's degree at Mississippi State University (2016) 
  • CIAME Scholarship for pursuing a diploma in Mediterranean Organic Agriculture in Italy (2015)