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Justin Rickard

Associate Professor of Animal Science
Office
RAB Ropp Agriculture Building 108a
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Current Courses

AGR 380.001 Current Issues In Livestock Industry

AGR 480.001 Current Issues in Livestock Industry

AGR 299.006 Independent Honor Study

AGR 287.008 Independent Study

AGR 285.001 Meat Science

AGR 285.002 Meat Science

AGR 302.019 Special Problems In Agriculture

AGR 291.017 Undergraduate Teaching Experiences In Agriculture

AGR 271.001 Foods Of Animal Origin

AGR 299.002 Independent Honor Study

AGR 499.014 Independent Research For The Masters Thesis

AGR 287.014 Independent Study

AGR 400.008 Independent Study

AGR 291.014 Undergraduate Teaching Experiences In Agriculture

Grants and Contracts

You're all farmers right? Students' perceptions of classmates' and instructors' experience
Maria Boerngen, Justin Rickard
Cross Endowed Chair in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. July 2020 - June 2021

Journal Article

Structuring Group Work to Provide a More Positive Student Learning Experience
Boerngen, M., & Rickard, J.
Natural Sciences Education, 52 (2:e20124), (2023), https://doi.org/10.1002/nse2.20124
To Zoom or not to Zoom: The impact of rural broadband on online learning
Boerngen, M., & Rickard, J.
Natural Sciences Education, 50:e20044, (2021)
Assessment and perception of student farm background in an introductory agriculture course
Boerngen, M., & Rickard, J.
Natural Sciences Education, 49:e20013, (2020)
Unwanted Horse Population in Illinois: Perceptions of Horse Owners, Non-Horse Owners, and Equine Industry Stakeholders
Myers, K., Mohammed, F., Rickard, J., Meyer, D., & Spaulding, A.
Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science, (2018)
Assessing Student Demographics in a Non-Land-Grant University Department of Agriculture
Rickard, J., Boerngen, M., Lorenz, S., & Baker, E.
Natural Sciences Education, 46 (1), (2017)

Presentations

Equity Concerns: Rural vs. Urban Students and the Digital Divide
Maria Boerngen, Justin Rickard
86th Annual Meeting of the Rural Sociological Society, Madison, WI, July, 2024
The Relationship Between Experience and Perception in the Agricultural Classroom
Maria Boerngen, Justin Rickard
69th Annual North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture (NACTA) Conference, Las Cruces, NM, June, 2023
Perceived Agriculture Experience Impacts the Learning Environment
Justin Rickard, Maria Boerngen
68th Annual North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture (NACTA) Conference, Online, June, 2022
You’re all farmers, right? Students’ perceptions of classmates’ and instructors’ experience
Maria Boerngen, Justin Rickard
67th Annual North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture (NACTA) Conference, Online, June, 2021
Effect of enhanced organic acid supplementation in late gestation and lactation of sows on body weight change, litter performance, and wean to estrus interval
Drew Lugar, Shelby Ramirez, Justin Rickard, Jennifer Earing, A. Tacconi, G. Murugesan
ASAS Midwest Section Meeting, Omaha, Nebraska, March 3, 2020
Structuring group projects for a more positive student learning experience
Maria Boerngen, Justin Rickard
Teaching and Learning Symposium, Normal, IL, January, 2019
Structuring group projects for a more positive student learning experience
Maria Boerngen, Justin Rickard
Faculty Summer Institute, Urbana, IL, May 17, 2018
Does structure alter students' perceptions of group projects?
Maria Boerngen, Justin Rickard
63rd Annual North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture (NACTA) Conference, West Lafayette, IN, June 29, 2017