Recent Awards

Jasmine Morgan, Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences

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.

Jeffrey Conrad '83 Agricultural Business Management, President and Founder of AgIS Capital LLC; Daniel Eichenlaub '78 Architectural Engineering, President of Eichenlaub, Inc.

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

Tammy Shannon, Academic Advising Coordinator, Environmental Resource Management

Victoria Herr, Agricultural and Extension Education and a Minor in International Agriculture

Ben McGraw, Associate Professor, Turfgrass Science

I. Miley Gonzalez '82 Agricultural Education; James Zallie '82 Food Science, President and CEO of Ingredion Inc.

Kurt Miller, Animal Science, Minors in Poultry and Avian Science and International Agricultural

Douglas Masser '12 Agricultural and Extension Education

Dianne Petrunak, Academic Adviser for the Department of Plant Science

Barbara Howell Raphael '66 B.S. Science, '69 M.S. Nutrition, '72 Ph.D. Food Science

James Frisbie, Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Minor in Bioethics and Medical Humanities

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

Samuel E. Hayes, Jr. 1964 B.S. Agriculture Science, 1965 M.S. Earth Sciences

Cara Boothroyd, B.S. Food Science

Joel Krall '06 Animal Sciences

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

Theodore S. Katsigianis ‘75 M.S. , ‘79 Ph.D Dairy Science, Vice President of Agricultural Sciences, The Biltmore Company

Amy Kraus, Animal Science

Beth Panko Briczinski '98, '01g and '07 Ph.D. Food Science

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

Lynn A. Dietrich '73 Agricultural Engineering

Russell C. Redding '82 Agricultural Education, '99g Agricultural and Extension Education, Pennsylvania Secretary of Agriculture

Javier Moreno '07 Ag and Extension Education

Courtney Marie Norjen, Vet and Biomedical Sciences

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

Kelcey Grogan, Community, Environment and Development

Robert Van Saun, Extension Veterinarian, Professor of Veterinary Science

MeeCee Baker ’82 B.S., ’94 Ph.D. Agricultural Education, Chief Operating Officer and Managing Partner of Versant Strategies

Andrew D. Herr ’07 B.S. Animal Sciences

Nancy Dreschel, Department of Animal Science

Earl K. Harbaugh '61 Agriculture

Tawfik Y. Sharkasi '84 Ph.D. Food Science, Vice President of Innovation for the Asia Pacific Region of the William Wrigley Jr. Company

Sarah Peterson, Immunology and Infectious Disease

Jen Beidel

John C. Ewing, Department of Agricultural and Extension Education

John Gearhart '64 Horticulture

Gloria DeGrandi-Hoffman, '80g Entomology, Research Leader and Center Director of the U.S.D.A Carl Hayden Bee Research Center

Hannah Marie Atkins, Animal Science

Philip J. Clauer, Department of Poultry Science

Louis Galliker III, 1956 Dairy Science, Chairman/President of Galliker Dairy Company

Vivian Chang '01g Food Science

Lori Connelly

Gabriella A. Varga, Department of Dairy and Animal Science

John D. Gearhart '64, director of the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Diane Nicole Harris, Animal Bioscience

Peter H. Adler, Conrado (Bobby) Gempesaw II, Keith E. Masser, Donald E. Orr, Jr., Terry A. Rightnour

Paul H. Heinemann, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Joseph M. Duich '52 B.S., '57 Ph.D. Agronomy

Catherine E. Adams ’79, Food Science; President and CEO, RdR Solutions Consulting, LLC

Jeffrey Nagle ’98 Agr Landscape Contracting

Jacqueline Pratt, Agriculture Extension and Education

Daniel D. Fritton, Department of Crop and Soil Sciences

David N. Geise '68 Agronomy. David N. Geise is president and CEO of Furmano Foods of Northumberland, Pa., the largest family-owned tomato procesor in the eastern United States that is over 80 years old.

Kameswar Rao Ellajosyula '98g Food Science

Mary Colson, Horticulture

Dennis Scanlon, Department of Agricultural and Extension Education

David Denlinger '67 B.S., Entomology. David L. Denlinger of Worthington, Ohio, is a Distinguished University Professor of Entomology at The Ohio State University.

Edward Frank Kocjancic '54 B.S., Forestry. He was president of Edward F. Kocjancic, Inc., Consulting Foresters, in Kane, Pa. He practiced forestry for 47 years--37 years as a consultant.

Roger A. Madigan '51 Dairy Production

Dean Girton '60 B.S. Dairy Science. Girton is owner and president of Girton Manufacturing Company Inc., which produces and distributes dairy and food processing equipment worldwide.

Dr. Richard Grubb '58 B.S., '61 M.S. Ag. Economic and Rural Sociology, '71 Ph.D. Higher Education. Retired senior vice president and dean emeritus of the Penn State Commonwealth Educational System and former Pennsylvania Secretary of Agriculture

Obie Snider '50 Dairy Husbandry

Stuart Patton '43 B.S. Dairy Husbandry. Adjunct Professor, Department of Neurosciences, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego

Charles Brosius '52 Dairy Science

M. Michael Arjmand, '75g and '78g, is CEO of Centre Analytical Laboratories in State College, Pa.