- Professor Emeritus, Agricultural and Environmental Economics
Areas of Expertise
- Natural Resource Economics
- Environmental and Energy Policy Analysis
- Water Resources Management
- Institutional Economics
- Public Issues Education
- Professor of Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics and Demography
- Agribusiness Management Program Coordinator
Areas of Expertise
- Economic and environmental sustainability of agriculture
- Global food and agricultural markets
- Natural resource economics
- Climate change adaptation and mitigation
- Email dga2@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-8630
- Nancy and John Steimer Professor of Agricultural Sciences
- Professor of Forest Ecology and Physiology
Areas of Expertise
- Global change ecology
- Email agl@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-4901
- Associate Teaching Professor
- Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences Undergraduate Advisor
- Instructor
Areas of Expertise
- Poultry Nutrition
- Bio-Statistics
- Assistant professor of Entomology/Arthropod ecology
Areas of Expertise
- Insect plant interactions
- Integrated pest management
- Chemical ecology
- Molecular biology
- Associate Professor of Advertising and Public Relations, Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications
- Email laa182@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-8314
- Associate Professor, Bioinfomatics
- Email iua1@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-2281
- 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
- Assistant Professor of Aquatic Ecology
Areas of Expertise
- The relationship between community structure and ecosystem processes in rivers and streams, and factors which influence this relationship across local, landscape, and regional spatial scales.
- Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences
- Email rba6@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-1700
- Professor of Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics
- Co-Director, Center for Economic and Community Development
- Human Dimensions of Natural Resources and the Environment Graduate Faculty
- Adjunct Research Fellow, Australian Center for Agriculture and Law, University of New England
Areas of Expertise
- Agricultural Economics and Policy
- Development Economics
- Public Sector Economics
- Community and Regional Economics
- Community and Rural Development
- Comparative Rural Policy
- Institutional and Behavioral Economics
- Resource and Environmental Economics
- Public Scholarship and Civic Engagement in Higher Education
- Email talter@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-8640
- Associate Professor of Entomology
Areas of Expertise
- Social behavior
- Chemical ecology
- Pollinator's health
- Physiology
- Genetics
- Bumble bees
- Email eua6@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-7675
- Professor of Food Science
Areas of Expertise
- Food engineering and modeling
- Heat and mass transfer during food processing
- Microwaveable food product development
- Chocolate processing
- High pressure processing
- Professor of Horticultural Physiology
- Waller Professor of Biology
Areas of Expertise
- Plant abiotic stress responses
- Guard cell signaling
- Heterotrimeric G protein signaling in rice and Arabidopsis
- RNA structure-function relationships
- Email sma3@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-9579
- Wildlife Veterinarian, PA Game Commission
- Adjunct Associate Professor
- Email aa749@cornell.edu
- Office 607-253-3401
- Assistant Research Professor
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
Areas of Expertise
- Invasion Ecology
- Population Genetics
- Wildlife Ecology
- Evolution
- Conservation Biology
- Animal Coloration
- Island Biology
- Alan R. Warehime Faculty Chair in Agribusiness
- Director Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- College of Agricultural Sciences
- Associate Professor Emeritus of Agricultural and Extension Education
- Email bbc@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-7415
- Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Entomology and Chemical Ecology
- Director Emeritus, Center for Chemical Ecology
- Email tcb10@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-4435
- 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 Research Professor
- Extension Veterinarian
Areas of Expertise
- Transition cow management
- Dairy cattle reproduction
- Farm personnel training and performance
- Dairy production medicine
- Cow comfort
- Associate Professor of Avian Biology
- Email pab43@psu.edu
- Office 814-867-2365
- Professor of Horticulture
Areas of Expertise
- Informal seed systems in Southeast Asia
- Temperate zone woody plants
- Christmas tree management
- Extension and advisory systems for developing countires
- Email rmb30@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-2198
- Assistant Professor in Family Studies, Child, and Youth Development
- Academic Lead, Penn State Better Kid Care
Areas of Expertise
- Prevention Science
- Risk and Protective Factors in Childhood and Adolescence
- Evidence-Based Programs
- Program Implementation and Evaluation
- Latent Variable Models
- Email blb339@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-7853
- Assistant Research Professor, Director of SRCL
- Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Agronomy
Areas of Expertise
- Soil Fertility
- Soil Testing
- Nutrient Management
- Manure Management
- Assistant Professor of Phytobiomes
Areas of Expertise
- High-throughput sequencing
- Crop-associated microbiomes
- Impacts of disturbance on plant-microbe relationships
- Environmental microbiology
- Microbial products
- Associate Professor of Horticulture
- Email rdb4@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-2190
- Professor of Mushrooms
Areas of Expertise
- Mushroom cultivation
- Composting
- Mushroom nutrition and physiology
- IPM and Disease Management for Mushroom cultivation
- Mushroom extension services for the North American mushroom industry
- Tree Fruit Research Entomologist
- Research Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Integrated Pest and Pollinator Management for Tree Fruit, Taxonomy and Natural History of Bees & Biological Control, Orchard Community Ecology & Ecotoxicology, Conservation Biological Control, Invasive Species Insecticide and Native Biological Control, Pesticide Evaluations
- Associate Professor of Anthropology
- Email dwb5537@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-1096
- Professor Of Anthropology
- Email rub33@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-2391
- Distinguished Professor of Entomology and Biology
- J. Lloyd & Dorothy Foehr Huck Chair of Epidemiology
- Email onb1@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-2983
- Professor Emeritus, Agricultural and Environmental Economics
- Assistant Research Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
- Affiliate Researcher of Engineering Design in SEDTAPP
Areas of Expertise
- Fabrication of research test equipment in metal, wood & plastic
- Computer aided design and analysis
- Design for additive manufacturing
- Engineering education
- Email rgb@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-2300
- Vernon E. Norris Faculty Fellow of Poultry Nutrition
- Assistant Professor of Poultry Science
Areas of Expertise
- Poultry Nutrition
- Feed Manufacturing
- Pellet Quality
- Email jxb2002@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-8934
- Associate Research Professor
- Assistant Teaching Professor in Turfgrass Weed Management
- Email jab267@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-3005
- Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture
- Interim Director, Hamer Center
- Email mub13@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-8136
- Vice Provost for Academic Affairs
- Email bxb1@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-7494
- Professor Emerita, Agricultural and Extension Education
Areas of Expertise
- Personal Financial Education
- Consumer Education
- Professor, Department of Ecosystem Science & Management
- Co-hire, Institutes of Energy & the Environment
- Assistant Research Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Honey bees
- Managed solitary bees
- Crop pollination
- Pollinator Ecology
- Integrated Pest and Pollinator Management
- Email nmb5846@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-3974
- Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology
Areas of Expertise
- Child welfare
- Criminal justice
- Poverty and Inequality
- Qualitative methods
- Rural Community Development
- Substance Use
- Professor of Rural Sociology
- Director of Graduate Studies
Areas of Expertise
- Energy and Society, specifically Community Impacts of Marcellus Shale Development
- Community Development and Public Engagement
- Water Quality
- Environmental Governance Systems
- Women in Agriculture
- Professor and UNESCO Chair in Community, Leadership, and Youth Development
- Director of Graduate Studies for Education, Development, and Community Engagement
Areas of Expertise
- Community
- Community and Leadership Development
- International Development
- Research Methods and Statistics
- Social Change/Social Movements
- Rural Sociology
- Environmental/Natural Resource Sociology
- Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Environmental Economics
- Water Resource Economics
- Nonmarket Valuation
- Behavioral Economics
- Policy Analysis
- Stormwater and Green Infrastructure
- Transportation Economics
- Email dab320@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-7657
- Professor of Wildlife Resources
- Extension Wildlife Specialist
Areas of Expertise
- Avian ecology
- Effects of shale gas development on forests and birds
- forest songbirds
- Human impacts on bird population
- Wildlife habitat management on private lands
- Landscaping for birds and wildlife
- Assistant Teaching Professor
- Program Coordinator, Undergraduate Studies, Veterinary & Biomedical Sciences
- Email jdb56@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-4883
- Professor of Plant Stress Biology
Areas of Expertise
- Root phenomics
- Anatomical traits affecting water and nutrient acquisition
- Genome-wide association studies
- Root hairs
- Email kbe@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-2260
- Assistant Professor of Weed Science
- Email brunharo@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-9552
- Pronouns He/Him
- Professor of Soil Microbiology and Biogeochemistry
Areas of Expertise
- Soil microbiology
- Nitrogen cycle
- Soil quality
- Ecological restoration
- Biogeochemistry
- Adjunct Professor of Agronomy, USDA-ARS
- Assistant Professor of Quantitative Wildlife Ecology
Areas of Expertise
- Bayesian statistics
- Hierarchical modeling
- Applied statistics
- Movement ecology
- Demography
- Terrestrial wildlife ecology
- Associate Research Professor
- Gender Equity in Agricultural Research and Education (GEARE) program;
- and International and National Extension
- Agricultural Sciences Global
Areas of Expertise
- Gender and urban agriculture
- Gender, renewable energy and agriculture
- Gender, water and agriculture
- Gender, global environmental change and agriculture
- Gender, youth and agriculture
- Gender and development
- Email buechler@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-4297
- Department Head, Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology
- Professor of Plant Pathology and Systematic Bacteriology
Areas of Expertise
- Phytobacteriology
- Translational Taxonomy
- Systematic Bacteriology
- Biological Control
- Sustainable and Organic Agriculture
- Email ctb14@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-7448
- 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
- Individual-based modeling
- Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS)
- Evolve and Resequence
- Associate Professor of Civil Engineering
- Email wdb3@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-0578
- Associate Teaching Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
- Program Director, Appalachian Botany and Ethnobotany, Shaver's Creek Environmental Center
Areas of Expertise
- Field Botany and Plant Taxonomy, Herbarium Methods
- Non-timber Forest Products (e.g., Maple Syrup, Medicinal/Culinary Plants and Fungi)
- Economic Botany and Ethnobotany
- Plant Husbandry and Horticulture
- Wild Plant Conservation, Management, and Policy
- Invasive Plant Ecology, Ethnobotany, and Management
- Appalachian Forest Plant Biology, Ecology, and Ethnobotany
- Agroforestry, Forest Farming
- Email epb6@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-3951
- Associate Head and Professor of English
- Assistant Clinical Professor
- Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Horticultural Crop and Seed Pathology
- Plant & Fungal Reproductive Genetics
- Population Ecology & Reproduction with GIS
- Pedagogy and Online Curriculum Development
- Meat Extension Specialist
- Associate Professor - Animal Science
Areas of Expertise
- Processed Meats
- Food Safety
- Thermal Processing & Smoking
- Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point Systems
- Distinguished Professor of Biology
- Director, Lake Erie Regional Grape Research and Extension Center
Areas of Expertise
- Effects of climate change on dormancy and shoot growth in grapes
- Molecular and bioinformatic tools to investigate the biology of perennial plants with a specific focus on dormancy
- Post-harvest sprouting control in potato
- Email mac17@psu.edu
- Office 814-898-6474
- Distinguished Professor of Molecular Immunology
Areas of Expertise
- Host resistance to infection
- Immune-mediated diseases: multiple sclerosis, and inflammatory bowel disease
- T cells
- Gastrointestinal microbiota; Gnotobiotics
- Vitamins A & D regulation of immune function
- Edible mushrooms
- Selenium
- Department Head, Ecosystem Science and Management
Areas of Expertise
- Conservation biology, restoration ecology, ecological design, freshwater ecosystem management
- Professor Emeritus of Molecular Genetics
- Past Director of The Schatz Center for Tree Molecular Genetics
Areas of Expertise
- Genomics
- Conservation Genetics
- Renewable Energy
- Biotechnology
- Email jec16@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-9164
- Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist of Grain Production
Areas of Expertise
- Corn, soybean and small grains
- Sustainable intensification of agriculture
- Water and nutrient use efficiency
- Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
- Director, Graduate Studies
- Affiliated Faculty of the The Rock Ethics Institute
Areas of Expertise
- Cellulose and nanocellulose structure and characterization
- Bacterial cellulose production
- Polysaccharide composite materials
- Polysaccharide based barrier materials to replace plastics
- Improved paper and paperboard products and processes
- Bioabsorbable biomedical materials based on polysaccharides
- Associate Professor of Viticulture
Areas of Expertise
- Wine grape production
- Grapevine physiology
- Sustainable viticulture
- cold temperature stress
- Professor of Pathology, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, and Pharmacology
- Professor of Rural Sociology, Demography, and Public Health Sciences
- Director, the Computational and Spatial Analysis Core
Areas of Expertise
- Environmental demography
- Socio-environmental systems
- Population-infrastructure dynamics
- Computational and spatial analysis
- Email gchi@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-8245
- Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology
- Research Associate, Rock Ethics Institute
Areas of Expertise
- Environmental sociology
- Food and agricultural ethics
- Science, knowledge, and technology
- Culture and consumption
- Social psychology
- Animals and society
- Qualitative research methods
- Email rchiles@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-8626
- Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Areas of Expertise
- Development of emerging bioproducts
- Additive manufacturing with lignocellulosic biomass
- Applications of synthetic chemistry to lignin
- Catalytic transformations of biomass
- Spectroscopic characterization of bio-derived molecules
- Email sc411@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-6815
- Professor of Maize Genetics
Areas of Expertise
- Epigenetics
- Genetics
- Molecular Biology
- Plant-pathogen interactions
- Maize Genetics
- Sorghum Genetics
- Flavonoids
- Phytoalexins
- Plant-fungus interactions
- Plant-insect interactions
- Plant-Environment interactions
- Email sic3@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-1159
- Assistant Professor and Research Associate
- Academic Program Coordinator, RESS Online Master's Program
Areas of Expertise
- Bioenergy
- Biomass Energy Systems
- Thermochemical Conversion
- Energy Efficiency
- Controlled Environment Agriculture
- Solar Energy Resource Evaluation
- Email dec109@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-3484
- Associate Teaching Professor, Poultry Science
- 4-H Youth Poultry Program Coordinator
- Undergraduate Adviser
- Penn State Poultry Science Club Adviser
- Penn State Collegiate Poultry Judging Team Coach
Areas of Expertise
- Embryology in the Classroom
- Poultry Judging
- Purebred and Exhibition Poultry
- Incubation
- Small Specialty Poultry Production
- General Poultry Production Management
- Email pclauer@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-8960
- Assistant Professor of Food Science
Areas of Expertise
- Human Gut Microbiome
- Carbohydrate Active Enzymes
- Dietary Fiber
- Resistant Starch
- Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Ecology, Graduate Coordinator
- Email cac13@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-5735
- Associate Research Professor
- Director, Southeast Agricultural Research & Extension Center
Areas of Expertise
- Corn Disease
- Soybean Disease
- Wheat Disease
- Hemp Production
- Field Crops Disease Management
- Email aac18@psu.edu
- Office 717-653-4728
- Professor and Department Head of Plant Science
Areas of Expertise
- Plant mineral nutrition
- Micronutrient transport
- Molecular mechanisms of iron transport
- Associate Professor of Advertising and Public Relations, Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications
- Email cuc15@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-3073
- Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Areas of Expertise
- Industrial Ecology
- Ethical Decision Making
- Life Cycle Analysis
- Professor of Food Science;
- Undergraduate Program Coordinator
- Assistant Professor of Soils and Environmental Microbiology
- Email efc5279@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-1615
- Assistant Professor of Soilborne Disease Dynamics and Management
Areas of Expertise
- Fungal ecology and evolution
- Soil & plant microbiome response to stress
- Biological management of fungal & oomycete pathogens
- Soil health and disease modeling
- Professor of Geography
- Director, Alliance for Earth Sciences, Engineering, and Development in Africa
- Email rqc3@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-7598
- Professor of Horticulture
- Extension Specialist, Tree Fruit Production
Areas of Expertise
- Deciduous Tree Fruit Production
- Tree Fruit Rootstocks
- Pruning and Training Tree Fruit
- Apple Varieties
- Tree fruit nutrition
- Asian pear varieties
- Impact of climate change on tree fruit production
- Emeritus Professor of Weed Science and Extension Weed Specialist
Areas of Expertise
- Managing weedy plants in agroecosystems
- Conservation tillage and cover crops
- Herbicide use
- Integrated weed management
- Weed management in organic cropping systems
- Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Extension Education
Areas of Expertise
- Science Literacy
- Teacher Education
- School-based Agricultural Education
- Motivation
- Professor of Food Science
- Assistant Director of Food Safety & Quality Programs
- Food Safety Extension Specialist - Muscle Foods
Areas of Expertise
- Food safety
- Food microbiology
- Foodborne pathogens
- Antimicrobials
- Edible films
- Spoilage
- Meat, poultry, seafood, muscle foods
- HACCP
- Sanitation
- Professor Emeritus
Areas of Expertise
- Tree Diseases
- Biocontrol
- Email ddd2@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-1689
- Director and Outreach Associate Professor of Health Policy and Administration
- Pennsylvania Office of Rural Health
- Email lad3@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-8214
- Professor
- Director of the Frost Entomological Museum
Areas of Expertise
- Systematics, natural history collections
- Associate Professor of Dairy Cattle Genetics
- Undergraduate Adviser, Dairy, Genetics
- Email cdechow@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-3659
- Professor of Horticulture and Plant Ecosystem Health
Areas of Expertise
- Air Pollution Injury on Plants
- Air Quality and Ecosystem Responses
- Environmental Plant Physiology
- Vegetable Crops
- Photomorphogenesis (light regulated plant growth)
- Senior Extension Associate
- Email efz@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-2303
- Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
- Bioprocess and Food Safety Engineering
Areas of Expertise
- Bioprocess Engineering/Fermentation: Bioconversion of agricultural raw and waste commodities into value added products including bioenergy/biofuels, microbial enzymes, organic acids, polysaccharides, antimicrobial agents; optimization; novel bioreactors; downstream processing.
- Food Engineering/Food Safety : inactivation of pathogenic and spoilage microorganisms by using novel non-thermal processing technologies including pulsed UV light, electrolyzed oxidizing water, and ozone.
- Email demirci@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-1098
- Professor of Biology
- Email cwd3@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-6412
- Assistant Professor of Vegetable Crop Science
Areas of Expertise
- Sustainable vegetable production systems
- Plant nutrition, soil fertility and irrigation management
- Alternatives to chemical soil fumigation
- Vegetable response to abiotic stress
- Vegetable quality
- Agrobiodiversity and novel vegetable products
- Agronomic biofortification
- Associate Professor of Reproductive Biology
Areas of Expertise
- Reproductive Biology
- Nutrition and Reproduction
- Ovarian Function
- Oocyte Development
- Email fjd10@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-1499
- Adjunct Professor of Wildlife Ecology
- Leader, PA Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit
Areas of Expertise
- biometrics
- white-tailed deer
- harvest management
- population estimation
- Assistant Professor of Phytobiomes
Areas of Expertise
- Microbial community ecology
- Plant-microbe interaction
- Environmental microbiology
- Soil microbiology
- Ecological resilience and resistance
- Causes and consequences of biodiversity
- Animal Resource Program & IACUC Veterinarian
- Instructor
- Undergraduate Advisor
Areas of Expertise
- Laboratory Animal Medicine
- Email jwd12@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-7813
- Associate Professor Emeritus of Food Science
- Associate Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
- Email fld3@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-6805
- Associate Teaching Professor, Small Animal Science
- Undergraduate Adviser
- Adviser for the Small and Exotic Animals Club (SEAC)
Areas of Expertise
- Companion Animal Science
- Animal Behavior
- Animal Welfare and Stress
- Veterinary Medicine
- Online teaching
- Email nad5@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-4197
- Professor of Pedology & Graduate Program Chair
Areas of Expertise
- Soil Science
- Watershed Management
- Landscape Ecology
- Natural Resource Management
- Email pjd7@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-4246
- Associate Professor
- Email ead9@psu.edu
- Office 610-892-1459
- Director of E. coli Reference Center
- Professor of Food Science
Areas of Expertise
- Microbiology
- Microbial pathogens
- Molecular microbiology
- Microbial genomics
- Food Safety
- Food Microbiology
- Professor of Soil Management and Applied Soil Physics
Areas of Expertise
- No-tillage
- Cover crops
- Soil compaction
- Soil health
- Soil erosion
- Soil conservation
- Nitrogen fixation
- Assistant Professor of Hydrology
Areas of Expertise
- Ecohydrology
- Hydrology
- Biogeochemistry
- Terrain Analysis
- Water Quality
- Watershed Management
- Clinical Professor
- Avian Pathologist and Field Investigator
Areas of Expertise
- Emphasis on diagnosis and control of infectious diseases of poultry, waterfowl, gamebirds.
- Board certification in the American College of Poultry Veterinarians.
- Assistant Research Professor in Storage Root Physiology
Areas of Expertise
- Root Crop Physiology
- Abiotic Stress
- Breeding for Environmental Stress Resistance
- Phenotyping and Database Management
- Morphometrics of Flowers and Other Plant Organs
- Email loduque@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-0710
- Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture
- Email spe10@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-1421
- Assistant Teaching Professor, Equine Science
- Penn State Horse Farm Coordinator
- Penn State Horse Judging Team Coach
- Email began@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-0569
- Professor of Woody Plant Physiology
Areas of Expertise
- Root biology and ecology
- Mycorrhizal ecology
- Plant Physiological Ecology
- Plant Ecology
- Global Change Biology
- Belowground Ecology
- Fruit tree physiology
- Email dme9@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-3371
- Professor and Associate Head of Food Science
Areas of Expertise
- Food chemistry
- Enology
- Wine oxidation
- Hop chemistry
- Antioxidants
- Lipid oxidation
- Email elias@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-5371
- Professor Emeritus of Avian Nutritional Biochemistry
Areas of Expertise
- Avian amino acid and lipid nutrition and metabolism
- Modification of poultry meat and eggs to enhance human health
- Email relkin@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-2102
- Professor Emeritus
Areas of Expertise
- Fate And Control Of Pollutants In Soils And Water
- Professor and Ibberson Chair in Community and Urban Forestry
Areas of Expertise
- Technical assistance to municipalities in preparation and enactment of environmental ordinances and other policy.
- Assistant Teaching Professor, Agribusiness Management
Areas of Expertise
- consumer markets/behavior
- farm & small firm management
- technology adoption
- marketing strategies & techniques
- Email stanernst@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-7656
- Director, Master of Biotechnology Degree Program
- Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Professor of Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering, Undergraduate Program Chair of Energy and Fuels Engineering Option
- Email sxe2@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-1392
- Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Field Crop Pathology
Areas of Expertise
- Integrated management of field crop diseases
- Plant disease epidemiology
- Statistical methods for the agricultural sciences
- Email pde6@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-0680
- Professor Emeritus of Animal Nutrition
- Email tde@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-3665
- Associate Professor of Agricultural and Extension Education
- Undergraduate Program Coordinator
Areas of Expertise
- Teacher Preparation
- Experiential Learning
- Email jce122@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-7463
- Professor of Agricultural Engineering
- Environmental Biophysics, Animal Welfare, and Agricultural Emissions
- Integrated Research and Extension Programs
Areas of Expertise
- Air quality in indoor agriculture (barns, poultry houses)
- Heating and Ventilation system design, principles and practice
- Horse facility engineering (stables, riding arenas)
- Farm animal welfare
- Agricultural air emissions (gas, odor, particulates)
- Assistant Professor of Agricultural Economics
Areas of Expertise
- Food Economics and Policy
- Health Economics
- International Trade
- Email lpf5158@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-5575
- Assistant Teaching Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
- BioRenewable Systems Lead Advisor
Areas of Expertise
- Study of sediment transport
- Ecohydrology
- Mathematical modeling
- Email suf474@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-8124
- Associate Professor
- Beef Extension Specialist
Areas of Expertise
- Beef cattle nutrition
- Beef cattle metabolism
- Beef cattle management
- Feedlot nutrition and management
- Email tfelix@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-0065
- Professor and Department Head of Entomology
- Associate Professor of Fisheries Management
- Associate Director of Academic Programs
- Email cpf3@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-2095
- Professor of Latin American History and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- Email mzf52@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-2278
- Professor of Plant and Soil Sciences,
- (Division of Science, Penn State Berks Campus).
- Courtesy Professor of Turfgrass Science,
- (Dept. Plant Science, Penn State University Park).
- Email maf100@psu.edu
- Office 610-396-6330
- Distinguished Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics and Public Policy
- Director, Institute for Sustainable Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Science (SAFES)
- Co-Director, Program on Coupled Human and Earth Systems (PCHES)
Areas of Expertise
- Economy-wide modeling
- Climate change impacts and adaptation
- Integrated assessment
- Professor of Entomology
Areas of Expertise
- Insect population dynamics
- IPM
- Email sjf4@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-7788
- Professor of Plant Genetics
Areas of Expertise
- Plant genetics and breeding
- Molecular breeding
- Biotic stresses
- Abiotic stresses
- Plant nutritional quality
- Tomato
- Email mrf5@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-5408
- Associate Professor
- Agricultural Teacher Educator
- Global Teach Ag Network Innovation Specialist
Areas of Expertise
- Agricultural Teacher Education
- Teaching and Learning in Agriculture
- Developing Global Competency in Agriculture
- School-based agricultural education
- Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture
- Email kxf15@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-8133
- Assistant Professor of Biology
- Email arf1@psu.edu
- Office 570-675-9346
- Harbaugh Entrepreneur and Innovation Faculty Scholar
- Associate Teaching Professor, Agribusiness
Areas of Expertise
- Entrepreneurship
- Strategy
- AgTech entrepreneurship
- Bio-renewable building product technologies
- Firm-industry analytics
- Email mag199@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-0469
- Assistant Professor of Food Animal Microbiomes
Areas of Expertise
- Microbiome
- Epidemiology
- Food Production Systems
- Antimicrobial Resistance
- Dairy Cattle
- Mastitis
- Animal Health and Productivity
- Email ganda@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-4084
- Professor of Mycology
- Director, Fusarium Research Center
Areas of Expertise
- Fusarium and Aspergillus
- Fungal genetics
- Fungal systematics and evolution
- Fungal plant and animal pathogens
- Email dmg17@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-9773
- Instructor of Biology
- Email bxs18@psu.edu
- Office 717-749-6238
- Professor of Rural Sociology and Science, Technology, and Society
- Email llg13@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-8636
- Professor of Molecular Toxicology and Carcinogenesis
- Associate Chair, Molecular Cellular and Integrative Biosciences Graduate Program
- Email abg11@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-7170
- Professor of Agricultural and Regional Economics
- Director of The Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development
Areas of Expertise
- Food Systems Economics
- Economic Growth and Development
- Regional Economics and Policy
- Email sgoetz@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-4664
- Instructor in Agricultural Science
- Email geg3@psu.edu
- Office 814-949-5506
- Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, Professor of Geography, Faculty-In-Charge Environmental Inquiry Minor
- Email ljg11@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-9511
- Adjunct Associate Professor of Agronomy, USDA-ARS
- Associate Professor of Food Science
- Division of Science, Berks College
- Department of Food Science, University Park
- Email hxg7@psu.edu
- Office 610-396-6121
- Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Email cgrady@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-9434
- Professor of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management
- Chair Human Dimensions of Natural Resources and the Environment
- Email gyu@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-8986
- Adjunct Professor, Department of Entomology, Penn State
- Executive Director, GardenGenetics LLC, Bellefonte PA
- Professor Emeritus
- Professor of Neural and Behavioral Sciences
- Email psg6@psu.edu
- Office 717-531-5772
- Assistant Research Professor
- Watershed Management Extension Specialist
Areas of Expertise
- Watershed Management
- Water Quality
- Nitrogen Cycle
- Biogeochemistry
- Conservation Practices
- Soil-Water Interactions
- Email tag5611@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-6726
- Publius Vergilius Maro Professor of Entomology
- Director, Center for Pollinator Research, Insect Biodiversity Center
- Associate Director for Research, Institute for Sustainable Agricultural, Food and Environmental Science
Areas of Expertise
- Bees
- Genomics, Immunity, Behavior, Physiology, Ecology
- Decision Support Tools
- Professor of Vegetable Pathology
- Director of Graduate Studies
Areas of Expertise
- Integrated vegetable disease management
- Plant pathogen diagnosis
- Disease monitoring and forecasting
- Sustainable crop production
- J. Franklin Styer Professor of Horticultural Botany and Professor of Plant Molecular Biology
Areas of Expertise
- Plant Genomics and Genetics
- Plant Molecular Biology
- Theobroma cacao (cocoa)
- Email mjg9@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-7957
- Professor Emeritus of Forage Management
Areas of Expertise
- Forage Crop Establishment, Management and Utilization
- Perennial Warm-Season Grass Establishment and Management
- Assistant Professor
- Dr. Frances Keesler Graham Early Career Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Genomics
- Human Genetics
- Exposome
- Genetic Interactions (Epistasis)
- Gene-Environment Interactions
- Complex Disease
- Precision Medicine
- Biomedical Informatics
- Metabolomics
- Email mah546@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-0794
- Associate Professor & Director, Schatz Center for Tree Molecular Genetics
- Joseph E. Ibberson Chair in Silviculture Research for Pennsylvania
Areas of Expertise
- Population Genomics
- Conservation Genetics
- Molecular Ecology
- Evolution
- Quantitative Genetics
- Climate Change
- Ex Situ Conservation
- Professor of Immunology
- Immunology and Infectious Disease Undergraduate Advisor
Areas of Expertise
- Regulation of innate immunity, hematopoiesis and cellular transformation by receptor tyrosine kinases.
- Associate Professor of Statistics and Chair of the Undergraduate Program
- Email muh10@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-8126
- Director, Penn State Fruit Research and Extension Center (FREC)
- Professor of Agricultural Economics
Areas of Expertise
- Farm Management
- Risk Management
- Production Economics
- Professor of Food Science
Areas of Expertise
- Dairy Processing
- Food Rheology
- Food Engineering
- Email fmh14@psu.edu
- Office 814-867-5689
- Professor of Nutritional Physiology
Areas of Expertise
- Milk fat synthesis
- Rumen fatty acid metabolism
- Omega-3 fatty acids
- Email kjh182@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-6334
- Assistant Professor of Biology
- Email mih10@psu.edu
- Office 570-963-2529
- Associate Professor
- Email mth7@psu.edu
- Office 724-773-3876
- Professor of Food Science
- Director, Sensory Evaluation Center
Areas of Expertise
- Sensory science
- Human psychophysics
- Taste biology
- Drug delivery systems
- Food choice
- Ingestive behavior
- Consumer acceptability
- Email jeh40@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-7129
- Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Areas of Expertise
- Mechanization and Automation for Specialty Crops
- Robotic Solutions for Agricultural Applications
- Precision Agriculture
- Electro-Hydraulic Control System
- Email luh378@psu.edu
- Office 717-677-6116
- Undergraduate Advisor
- Laboratory Animal Veterinarian
Areas of Expertise
- Laboratory Animal Medicine and Behavior
- Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
- BioRenewable Systems Coordinator
Areas of Expertise
- Engineering for specialty crop production systems
- Quality evaluation of specialty crops
- Email hzh@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-2633
- Professor of Dairy Science
Areas of Expertise
- Heifer nutrition and management
- Effective fiber for dairy cows
- Email ajh@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-3916
- Professor of Biology
- Email rmh11@psu.edu
- Office 570-385-6063
- Assistant Professor of Arthropod Ecology and Trophic Interactions
- Assistant Professor of Arthropod Ecology and Trophic Interactions
Areas of Expertise
- Predator-Prey Interactions
- Arthropod Ecology
- Behavioral Ecology
- Chemical Ecology
- Biological Control
- Email SLH@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-8321
- Assistant Professor of Animal Science
- Livestock Extension, Swine Specialist
Areas of Expertise
- Swine Production and Management
- Swine Growth and Development
- Swine Reproductive Physiology
- Farm Biosecurity & Disease Response Preparedness
- Workforce Development
- Email eah405@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-3267
- Associate Professor of Biology and Entomology
Areas of Expertise
- Systematics & Biodiversity
- Evolutionary Genetics
- Genomics
- Development
- Pollinator Biology
- Hymenoptera
- Bumble bees
- Email hmh19@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-8830
- Professor of Rural Sociology
Areas of Expertise
- food systems
- sustainable agriculture
- agrarian change
- sustainability transitions
- Assistant Professor of Microbial Ecology
- Lloyd Huck Early Career Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Bacteriology
- Phyllosphere Microbiology
- Protein-mediated Bacterial Antagonism
- Molecular Biology
- Program Coordinator, Landscape Contracting Major
- Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Biological filtration
- Natural Swimming Pools
- Sustainable Landscape Design
- Green Infrastructure
- Associate Professor of Dairy Science
- Dairy Extension Team
Areas of Expertise
- Dairy Advisory Teams
- Integrated Dairy Management
- Email lah7@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-3672
- Professor of Entomology
- Center for Chemical Ecology
- Center for Pollinator Research
- Insect Biodiversity Center
Areas of Expertise
- Biology and ecology of invasive species
- Insect-microbial symbiosis
- Tritrophic interactions
- Insect virology
- Pollination of forest trees
- Email kxh25@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-6369
- Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education
Areas of Expertise
- Youth leadership development
- Teaching and learning
- Email tsh102@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-7521
- Rasmussen Career Development Professor in Food Science
- Associate Professor of Food Science
- Program Chair, Graduate Certificate Sensory & Consumer Science
Areas of Expertise
- Sensory & Consumer Science
- Flavor Chemistry & Flavor Biochemistry
- Sensometrics
- Sensory-assisted Breeding
- Trace Analysis
- Food Packaging
- Email hxh83@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-5572
- Pronouns She/Her
- Instructor of Forestry
- Email cth2@psu.edu
- Office 717-749-6239
- Research Professor
- Extension Veterinarian
- Veterinary Extension Team Leader
Areas of Expertise
- Mastitis and Milk Quality
- Milking Equipment Performance
- Bovine Hoof Health
- Antimicrobial Resistance
- On-farm Food Safety
- Johne's Disease
- Biosecurity and Infectious Disease Management
- Epidemiology
- Distinguished Professor of Dairy Nutrition
Areas of Expertise
- Dairy Nutrition
- Protein Nutrition of Dairy Cows
- Rumen Fermentation
- Nitrogen Utilization
- Methane Mitigation
- Environment
- Professor of Turfgrass Breeding and Genetics
- Email drh15@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-9805
- Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Global Food Security
- Associate Professor of Poultry Science
Areas of Expertise
- Hatchery and Incubation Management
- Turkey Management
- Broiler Management
- Avian Physiology
- Avian Reproductive Management
- Game Bird Management
- Professor Emeritus of Entomology
- Email lah4@psu.edu
- Office 717-873-9568
- Assistant Professor of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management
- Email cah59@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-9773
- Assistant Dean of Multicultural Affairs
- Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Cultural Competence
- Email pdi1@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-7439
- Research Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Areas of Expertise
- Chemical and thermochemical conversions of lignocellulosic biomass and other byproducts (including wastes) into value-added products (e.g. platform chemicals and hydrogen gas)
- Developing catalysts for various conversion processes using nanotechnological approaches
- Developing degradable biofilm formulations for agricultural applications
- Various applications of advanced oxidation processes (degradation of toxic organic chemicals in wastewaters, depolymerization of biomass)
- Evaluation of the effects of various fumigation treatments/technologies on the quality characteristics of food products
- Email sji5137@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-3559
- Professor and Head of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Areas of Expertise
- Soil and water resources engineering
- Impact of climate change on water resources and agro-ecosystem productivity
- Measurement and modeling of surface energy and water vapor balance
- Evapotranspiration, transpiration and evaporation
- Irrigation science and engineering; agro-ecosystem water management
- Nitrogen management and impacts on water and soil quality
- Impact of tillage practices on water and energy balance and water productivity
- Cover crop impact on soil quality (soil health) and water and energy balance
- Plant abiotic stresses vs productivity
- Plant phenotyping
- Measurement and modeling of soil moisture dynamics and soil physical properties
- Specialty cropping systems
- Agricultural IoTs
- Professor Emeritus
Areas of Expertise
- Aerobiology
- Food security
- Integrated Pest Management
- Email sai10@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-6290
- Distinguished Professor of Anthropology
- Email ngj2@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-2509
- Director of the Animal Resource Program
- Research Professor - Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
- Professor of Forest Resources
Areas of Expertise
- Water Energy Food Nexus
- Bioenergy
- Agroforestry
- Forest Economics and Finance
- International Forestry
- Forest Extension
- Non Timber Forest Products
- Email mgj2@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-3994
- Professor of Agricultural Economics
Areas of Expertise
- Economic modeling of food purchase behavior
- Link between food behavior and health
- Retail food product offerings and prices
- Organic food and agriculture
- Instructor in Agronomy
- Email brj8@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-7118
- Professor Emeritus
Areas of Expertise
- Wood products processing and manufacturing
- Wood composite material systems
- Wood structural applications
- Wood composite performance characteristics and related material evaluation methodologies
- Professor of Public Health
- Bacteriology Section Head, PADLS-Penn State Animal Diagnostic Laboratory
Areas of Expertise
- Diagnostic Microbiology
- Veterinary Public Health
- Food Safety
- Epidemiology
- New and Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Research Associate Professor
- Email nej2@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-2483
- Distinguished Professor of Rural Sociology and Demography
Areas of Expertise
- Social Stratification
- Demography
- International Development
- Rural Sociology
- Email ljensen@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-8642
- Professor of Plant Pathology
- Coordinator and Adviser of the Undergraduate Minor in Plant Pathology
Areas of Expertise
- Population biology
- Ecology of plant-associated microorganisms
- Fusarium and Verticillium wilts
- Walther H. Ott Professor in Avian Biology
- Assistant Teaching Professor of Soil Science
Areas of Expertise
- Soil Morphology
- Soil Taxonomy
- Soil Mapping
- Soil Genesis
- Pedology
- Biogeochemistry
- Potting Media
- Assistant Professor of Immunology
Areas of Expertise
- Immunology of infectious parasitic diseases: schistosomiasis and malaria
- Signaling through immune system receptors
- Host-pathogen interactions
- Email puk103@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-6610
- Professor and Associate Head, Department of Plant Science
- Director, Golf Course Turfgrass Management Program
Areas of Expertise
- Turfgrass Science
- Cannabis Science
- Pest Management
- Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Biocontrol
- Fungal genetics and genomics
- Microbial chemical ecology
- Molecular diagnosis of plant pathogens
- Email sxk55@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-3846
- Assistant Research Professor
- Professor, Intergenerational Programs and Aging
Areas of Expertise
- Developing & evaluating intergenerational initiatives in diverse settings.
- Training Extension educators and other professionals in intergenerational programming.
- Establishing intergenerational strategies for civic engagement and environmental design.
- Email msk15@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-7871
- Professor of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
- Associate Director for Strategic Initiative, Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences
Areas of Expertise
- Microbial pathogenomics and molecular epidemiology.
- Email vkapur@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-9788
- Associate Professor of Crop Production / Ecology
Areas of Expertise
- Agroecology
- Conservation & Dairy Cropping Systems
- Soil & nutrient conservation, perennials, cover crops
- Pasture ecology and grazing management
- Email hdk3@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-3179
- Assistant Research Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Host-symbiont interactions, Wolbachia, Sperm chromatin biology, DNA damage, Spermatogenesis, Embryogenesis
- Distinguished Professor of Soil Biogeochemistry
- Chair of Ecology Intercollege Graduate Degree Program
Areas of Expertise
- Ecosystem ecology
- Nitrogen cycle
- Carbon cycle
- Forest ecosystems
- Sustainable agriculture
- Email jpk12@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-1614
- Professor of Forest Ecology
Areas of Expertise
- Global change ecology
- Forest ecology
- Dendrochronology
- Community ecology
- Associate Research Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Dairy Food Processing & Quality
- Dairy Food Safety
- Sensory Analysis of Dairy Products
- Artisanal Cheese
- Value-Added Dairy Products
- Assistant Research Professor of Wildlife Behavioral Ecology
Areas of Expertise
- Animal behavior/ behavioral ecology
- Animal cognition
- Evolution
- Neurogenomics
- Computer Programming
- Assistant Professor, Department of Health and Nutritional Sciences and Food Science
Areas of Expertise
- Leveraging the food industry to improve child nutrition
- Improving the palatability of foods targeted at children
- Email klk37@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-2915
- Associate Professor of Geosciences
- Email kzk10@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-6718
- Professor of Horticultural Marketing and Business Management
- Affiliate Appointment: Agribusiness Management, Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education
Areas of Expertise
- Alcoholic beverage trends
- Wine consumer attitudes and behaviors
- Produce and ethnic food marketing
- Retail layout and design
- Promotional strategies
- Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Metabolomics
- Natural Product Chemistry
- Bioinformatics
- Antimicrobial Drug Discovery
- Ethnobotany and Indigenous Knowledge
- Plant-associated Microbiomes
- Botanical Dietary Supplements
- Toxicology
- Email jjk6146@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-2887
- Associate Head, Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education
- Professor of Agricultural Economics
- Community, Environment, and Development Program Coordinator
- Co-Director, Center for Economic & Community Development
- Professor of Production Systems and Modeling
Areas of Expertise
- Agroecosystems
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling
- Hydrologic and Nutrient Cycling Modeling
- Environmental Biophysics
- Plant Ecophysiology
- Assistant Professor of Arthropod Ecology
Areas of Expertise
- Plant-arthropod interactions
- Arthropod ecology
- Chemical ecology
- Biological control
- Assistant Professor of Avian Biology
- Dorothy Foehr and J. Lloyd Huck Early Career Chair, Huck Institutes of Life Sciences
Areas of Expertise
- Functional Genomics
- Genome Editing
- Avian Genetic Engineering
- Email taekim@psu.edu
- Office 814-867-3203
- Associate Professor of Geography
- Email bhk2@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-2612
- Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Immunologic mechanisms of Bordetella
- Pathogenesis of Francisella tularensis
- Host-pathogen interactions
- Development of BSL-3 research programs
- Affiliate and Adjunct Researcher of Food Science
- Sr. Manager, User Research, The Kroger Company
- Adjunct Associate Professor of Soil Science, USDA-ARS
- Professor Emeritus of Food Science
