Agricultural and Biological Engineering

  • Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
  • Natural Resource Engineering
  • Director of the Institute for Sustainable Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Science

Areas of Expertise

  • Emerging Contaminants
  • Contaminant Fate and Transport
  • Environmental Hydrology

Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education

  • Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology
  • Social Science Research Institute Co-funded Faculty Member

Areas of Expertise

  • Appalachia
  • Child welfare system
  • Criminal legal system
  • Qualitative methods
  • Rural health
  • Rural poverty
  • Substance use
  • Associate Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics

Areas of Expertise

  • Environmental and resource economics
  • Land economics
  • Spatial modeling
  • Non-market valuation

Animal Science

  • Associate Teaching Professor, Small Animal Science
  • Undergraduate Adviser
  • Adviser for the Small and Exotic Animals Club (SEAC)
  • Coordinator/Instructor Roar For More: Susquehanna Service Dogs University Park Puppy Raising Club

Areas of Expertise

  • Companion Animal Science
  • Animal Behavior
  • Animal Welfare and Stress
  • Veterinary Medicine
  • Online teaching
  • Assistant Professor of Reproductive Biology

Areas of Expertise

  • Reproductive biology
  • Ovarian function
  • Reproductive-immune interaction
  • Teaching Professor
  • Equine Science Minor Coordinator

Areas of Expertise

  • Lactation Biology
  • Milk Composition
  • Animal Welfare
  • Equine Science
  • Associate Professor of Equine Science

Areas of Expertise

  • Nutritional Influences on Growth and Development
  • Mammalian Patterns of Growth
  • Dietary Energy Sources Impact on Metabolism
  • Gastrointestinal Permeability
  • Gastrointestinal Health and Inflammation
  • Grazing Strategies for Horse Health and Performance
  • Equine Pasture and Manure Management Practices

Ecosystem Science and Management

  • Assistant Professor of Disease Ecology

Areas of Expertise

  • Disease ecology
  • Microbial ecology
  • Amphibians
  • Wildlife disease
  • Decision science
  • Assistant Professor of Soils and Environmental Microbiology
  • Assistant Research Professor of Wildlife Behavioral Ecology

Areas of Expertise

  • Animal behavior/ behavioral ecology
  • Animal cognition
  • Evolution
  • Neurogenomics
  • Computer Programming
  • Assistant Dean for Access and Equity
  • Research Professor of Quantitative Forest Ecology
  • Director, James C. Finley Center for Private Forests at Penn State
  • Associate Research Professor, Private Forests Management

Areas of Expertise

  • Forest stewardship
  • Private forest landowners
  • Woodland care
  • Collaborative learning
  • Action research
  • Peer-to-peer education

Entomology

  • Associate Professor of Entomology
  • Director, Center for Chemical Ecology
  • Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Endowed Chair of Chemical Ecology

Areas of Expertise

  • Entomology & Nematology
  • Insect-Plant Interactions
  • Behavioral Ecology
  • Chemical Ecology
  • Multi-trophic Interactions
  • Professor of Entomology

Areas of Expertise

  • Soil Entomology and Ecology
  • Sustainable and Organic Agriculture
  • Insect Pathology
  • Women and Gender in Science
  • Women and Agriculture
  • Assistant Professor of Arthropod Ecology and Trophic Interactions
  • Associate Professor of Entomology

Areas of Expertise

  • Veterinary Entomology
  • Tick ecology and control
  • Filth fly management and behavior
  • Wildlife entomology
  • Arthropod behavior

Food Science

  • Lester Earl and Veronica Casida Career Development Professor of Food Safety
  • Associate Professor of Food Science

Areas of Expertise

  • Microbial Food Safety
  • Foodborne Pathogens
  • Genomic Epidemiology
  • Microbiomes in Food Systems
  • Antimicrobial Resistance
  • Distinguished Professor of Food Science

Areas of Expertise

  • Food process engineering
  • Food materials science
  • Biopolymers
  • Chocolate and confectionery

Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology

  • Professor of Bacterial Systematics and Plant Pathology

Areas of Expertise

  • Phytobacteriology
  • Translational Taxonomy
  • Systematic Bacteriology
  • Biological Control
  • Sustainable and Organic Agriculture
  • Associate Research Professor
  • Director, Southeast Agricultural Research & Extension Center

Areas of Expertise

  • Corn Disease
  • Soybean Disease
  • Wheat Disease
  • Hemp Production
  • Field Crops Disease Management

Plant Science

  • Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Evolutionary ecology of legumes and rhizobia
  • Plant-microbe-climate interactions
  • Mutualism evolution
  • Bio-inoculants and leguminous cover crops
  • Biological nitrogen Fixation
  • Genome-wide association studies (GWAS)
  • Evolve and resequence
  • Professor of Horticultural Systems Management

Areas of Expertise

  • Sustainable vegetable systems
  • Organic vegetable systems
  • Field vegetable production systems
  • High tunnel vegetable production systems
  • Hydroponic vegetable systems

Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences

  • Assistant Professor of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences

Areas of Expertise

  • Animal models of influenza
  • Airborne transmission of influenza viruses
  • Evolution of pandemic influenza viruses
  • Highly pathogenic avian influenza
  • Development of live-attenuated influenza vaccine platforms
  • High containment BSL3+ research

Penn State Extension

  • Extension Educator, Food, Families, and Communities

Areas of Expertise

  • Parenting
  • Child and Youth Development
  • Mental Health
  • Financial Literacy
  • Health Insurance Literacy

Office of Access and Equity

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