{"id":3039,"date":"2026-01-04T00:43:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T05:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ndltd.org\/?page_id=3039"},"modified":"2026-01-04T00:49:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T05:49:11","slug":"laura-r-hammons","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ndltd.org\/directory\/prior-board-members\/laura-r-hammons\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura R. Hammons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-f05c6e52\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/ndltd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Hammons-Laura-2013.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-467\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-27691a5e\">\n\n<p>Laura Hammons joined the NDLTD board in 2015 and has been working with ETDs since 2008. She was the Director of Graduate Records Processing and Thesis\/Dissertation Services in the Office of Graduate and Professional Studies at Texas A&amp;M University. In that capacity, she led efforts to deploy the open source ETD Submission System, Vireo, at Texas A&amp;M University \u2013 one of the first institutions to do so. She co-chaired the Vireo Users Group from its inception in 2010 through 2013. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Laura is the founder of the Texas ETD Association and co-founder of the US ETD Association, where she served on the Board of Directors. She was a member of the NDLTD from 2010 to 2015, and in 2011, received the NDLTD International ETD Leadership Award for her significant contribution to the ETD movement. \u00a0Laura holds a Bachelor\u2019s degree in Biology and Master\u2019s and Ph.D. degrees in Educational Human Resource Development from Texas A&amp;M University.\u00a0Additional information available from:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0140-6235\">http:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0140-6235<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laura Hammons joined the NDLTD board in 2015 and has been working with ETDs since 2008. She was the Director of Graduate Records Processing and Thesis\/Dissertation Services in the Office of Graduate and Professional Studies at Texas A&amp;M University. In that capacity, &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Laura R. 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