Rate My Professor Sarah Murray

Dr. Sarah E. Murray serves as Assistant Professor in the School of Health Sciences and Nutrition and Dietetics Program Director at Missouri State University. She holds a PhD in Adult Learning and Leadership from Kansas State University (2022), an MS in Family and Consumer Sciences from Illinois State University (2005), and a BS in Dietetics from Missouri State University (2003). A Registered Dietitian (RD/LD), Murray began her career at Missouri State University as a Senior Instructor in the Biomedical Sciences Department around 2006 and advanced to her current faculty position in Public Health and Sports Medicine within the School of Health Sciences. Her doctoral dissertation, titled "Exploring How Nutrition & Dietetic Students Make Meaning of Their Educational Experiences and the Impact it Has on Their Leadership Development: A Grounded Theory Approach," employed a qualitative constructivist grounded theory methodology to investigate leadership development among nutrition and dietetics graduates from a Midwestern public university. The study identified key building blocks for leadership—knowledge, observation, emulation, and self-efficacy—and highlighted gaps in fostering leadership identity within standardized curricula.