This award recognizes faculty and staff with outstanding skills in undergraduate academic advising, career planning, and personal counseling. Advisers in the college are nominated by alumni, faculty, students, and administrators.
Since 1986, the College of Agricultural Sciences Alumni Society has annually recognized faculty and staff with outstanding skills in academic advising, career planning, and personal counseling. Once again, the Society is accepting nominations from alumni, faculty, and students for its Excellence in Academic Advising Award. .
Nomination guidelines for the Excellence in Academic Advising Award.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Chris Sigler, assistant teaching professor and academic adviser in the Department of Food Science, recently received both the 2022 Excellence in Academic Advising Award and the 2021-22 Community of Advising Excellence Award from Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences.

Nuket Acar, Coordinator of Undergraduate Advising, Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences

Tammy Shannon, Academic Advising Coordinator, Environmental Resource Management

Ben McGraw, Associate Professor, Turfgrass Science

Dianne Petrunak, Academic Adviser for the Department of Plant Science

Tarrah Geszvain, Advising Coordinator, Plant Sciences and Landscape Contracting Majors, Department of Plant Science

Dr. Daniel Foster, Agricultural Teacher Educator, Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education

Nüket Acar, DVM, MS, PhD, Coordinator of Undergraduate Advising, Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences Undergraduate Advisor

Jana Peters, advising coordinator and undergraduate adviser in the Department of Animal Science

Robert Van Saun, Extension Veterinarian, Professor of Veterinary Science

Nancy Dreschel, Department of Animal Science

John C. Ewing, Department of Agricultural and Extension Education

Philip J. Clauer, Department of Poultry Science

Gabriella A. Varga, Department of Dairy and Animal Science

Paul H. Heinemann, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Daniel D. Fritton, Department of Crop and Soil Sciences

Dennis Scanlon, Department of Agricultural and Extension Education

Associate Director of Alumni Relations
Development and Alumni Relations
Address
240 Agricultural Administration BuildingUniversity Park, PA 16802
- Email AgAlumni@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-2717
Associate Director of Alumni Relations
Development and Alumni Relations
Address
240 Agricultural Administration BuildingUniversity Park, PA 16802
- Email AgAlumni@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-2717