- 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
- Department Head, Ag Economics, Sociology, and Education
- Professor of Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics and Demography
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
- 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
- Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Virus Ecology and Evolution
- Genomics and Metagenomics
- Bioinformatics and Computational Analysis
- Network Analysis
- 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
- Associate 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
- Associate Professor of Entomology
Areas of Expertise
- Social behavior
- Chemical ecology
- Pollinator's health
- Physiology
- Genetics
- Bees
- Email eua6@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-7675
- Professor Emeritus 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
- Associate Research Professor
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
Areas of Expertise
- Invasion Ecology
- Population Genetics
- Wildlife Ecology
- Evolution
- Conservation Biology
- Animal Coloration
- Island Biology
- Assistant Clinical Professor of Equine Reproduction
- 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
- Emerita Professor of Entomology
Areas of Expertise
- Soil Entomology and Ecology
- Sustainable and Organic Agriculture
- Insect Pathology
- Women and Gender in Science
- Women and Agriculture
- Associate 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
- Associate Professor of Family Studies, Child, and Youth Development
- Director, Penn State Better Kid Care
Areas of Expertise
- Prevention Science
- Risk and Protective Factors in Childhood and Adolescence
- Early Childhood Education
- Program Implementation and Evaluation
- Latent Variable Models
- Time-varying Effect Models
- Email blb339@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-7853
- Assistant Research Professor, Director of SRCL
Areas of Expertise
- Soil chemistry and biogeochemistry; instrumental analysis of soils.
- Current projects: heavy metal analysis and remediation in urban soils; estimates of soil health at a solar farm
- Nationwide Insurance Early Career Professor
- Agricultural Safety and Health Program Lead
Areas of Expertise
- Agricultural health and safety
- Rural Sociology
- Sociology of food and agriculture
- Farm household’s social and economic needs
- Social and agricultural policies
- Community and economic development
- Qualitative and quantitative research methods
- Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Agronomy
Areas of Expertise
- Soil Fertility
- Soil Testing
- Nutrient Management
- Manure Management
- Associate Professor of Horticulture
- 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 Professor of Disease Ecology
Areas of Expertise
- Disease ecology
- Microbial ecology
- Amphibians
- Wildlife disease
- Decision science
- Assistant Professor of Landscape Sustainability
Areas of Expertise
- Urban ecosystems
- Soil ecology
- Biogeochemistry
- Vernon E. Norris Faculty Fellow of Poultry Nutrition
- Associate Professor of Poultry Science
Areas of Expertise
- Poultry Nutrition
- Feed Manufacturing
- Pellet Quality
- Email jxb2002@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-8934
- Associate Research Professor of Biology and Entomology
- Director, Discover the Microbes Within!
- Email srb6253@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-1152
- Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture
- Interim Director, Hamer Center
- Email mub13@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-8136
- Vice Provost Ermita 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 and Demography
- 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
- Professor of Rural Sociology
Areas of Expertise
- Collaborative Environmental Governance
- Community Development and Stakeholder Engagement
- Water Quality
- Energy and Society
- Women in Agriculture
- Professor and UNESCO Chair on Global Citizenship Education for Sustainable Peace through Youth and Community Engagement
Areas of Expertise
- Community Development
- International Development
- Social-emotional competencies (empathy, compassion, mindfulness)
- Youth Development, Voice, and Engagement
- Research Methods and Statistics
- Social Change/Social Movements
- Environmental/Natural Resource Sociology
- Associate 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 Research Professor of Microbial-Mediated Plant Nutrition
- Email mjd6663@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-8449
- Associate 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
- Associate 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
- Assistant Professor of Poultry Science
Areas of Expertise
- Layer/Breeder Production
- Egg Production and Quality
- Poultry Management and Welfare
- Avian Nutritional Physiology and Metabolism
- Email dfb5707@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-5540
- Assistant Professor of Quantitative Wildlife Ecology
Areas of Expertise
- Bayesian statistics
- Hierarchical modeling
- Applied statistics
- Movement ecology
- Demography
- Terrestrial wildlife ecology
- Associate Research Professor
- Agricultural Sciences Global
- and International and National Extension
Areas of Expertise
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus
- Renewable energy and agriculture
- Water and agriculture
- Environment and agriculture
- Urban agriculture
- Youth and agriculture
- Email buechler@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-4297
- Assistant Clinical Professor and Extension Veterinarian
Areas of Expertise
- Gastrointestinal health of food-producing animals
- Preventive Veterinary Medicine
- Antimicrobial Resistance
- Microbiology applied to Veterinary Medicine
- Gut microbiome
- Email buiatte@psu.edu
- Pronouns He/Him
- Professor of Bacterial Systematics and Plant Pathology
Areas of Expertise
- Phytobacteriology
- Translational Taxonomy
- Systematic Bacteriology
- Biological Control
- Sustainable and Organic Agriculture
- Email ctb14@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-7448
- Associate 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
- Associate Professor of Civil Engineering
- Email wdb3@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-0578
- Teaching Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Agroforestry (especially Forest Farming)
- Appalachian Forest Plant Identification, Biology, Ecology, and Ethnobotany
- Ethnobotany
- Field Botany and Plant Taxonomy, Herbarium Methods
- Invasive Plant Identification, Ecology, and Management
- Non-timber Forest Products (e.g., Maple Syrup, Medicinal/Culinary Plants and Fungi)
- Plant Husbandry and Horticulture
- Wild Plant Conservation, Management, and Policy
- Email epb6@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-0024
- Associate Head and Professor of English
- Professor and Interim Department Head
Areas of Expertise
- Cell biophysics
- Cellular Mechanotransduction
- Vascular Physiology
- Quantitative Microscopy
- Email pjb28@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-8086
- Assistant Clinical Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Molecular Diagnostics – Infectious Diseases
- Microbial Genomics and Bioinformatics
- Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases – Study Design and Data analysis
- Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Horticultural Crop, Turf, & Seed Pathology
- Plant & Fungal Reproductive Genetics
- Population Ecology with GIS
- Pedagogy and Online Curriculum Development
- Assistant Professor Precision Dairy Science
Areas of Expertise
- Precision Livestock Farming
- Precision technology
- Preweaning calf nutrition
- Dairy calf health
- Animal health
- Animal behavior
- Animal welfare
- Dairy cattle management
- Email mmc7081@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-1105
- 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
- Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Conservation biology, restoration ecology, ecological design, freshwater ecosystem management
- Academy Professor and 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, Grain Crop Production
Areas of Expertise
- Corn, soybean and small grains
- Sustainable intensification of agriculture
- Water and nutrient use efficiency
- Assistant Professor Data Science for Animal Systems
- Institute Computational and Data Sciences Co-Hire
Areas of Expertise
- Artificial Intelligence
- Computer Vision
- Optimization Techniques
- Precision Technology
- Animal Growth and Development
- Animal Health and Behavior
- Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, and Bioethics
- 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 Teaching Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
- Biological Engineering Undergraduate Program Coordinator
Areas of Expertise
- Food and biological processing
- Process design and modeling
- Transport phenomena and unit operations in food engineering
- Professor of Viticulture
Areas of Expertise
- Wine grape production
- Grapevine physiology
- Sustainable viticulture
- cold temperature stress
- Professor of Pathology, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, and Pharmacology
- Assistant Teaching Professor of Turfgrass Science
Areas of Expertise
- Environmental stress physiology
- Plant growth regulators on turf
- Turfgrass weeds
- Turfgrass management
- Statistical Analysis
- Email mkc6518@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-3606
- 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
- Associate Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
- Agricultural and Biorenewable Systems Management Undergraduate Coordinator
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
- Associate Research Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
- BRS Graduate Program Coordinator
Areas of Expertise
- Bioenergy
- Biomass Energy Systems
- Thermochemical Conversion
- Energy Efficiency
- Controlled Environment Agriculture
- Solar Energy Resource Evaluation
- Associate Teaching Professor Emeritus in Animal Science
- Poultry Science Emphasis
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
- Alan R. Warehime Faculty Chair in Agribusiness
- Director, Entrepreneurship and Innovation for the College of Agricultural Sciences
Areas of Expertise
- Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- Agribusiness and AgTech
- Immunology and Biological Sciences
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Associate Professor of Food Science
Areas of Expertise
- Human Gut Microbiome
- Carbohydrate Active Enzymes
- Dietary Fiber
- Resistant Starch
- 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
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
- Associate Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
- Research Associate, The Rock Ethics Institute
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
- 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
- Emeritus Professor of Horticulture
- Former 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 and managing herbicide resistance
- Integrated weed management
- Weed management in organic cropping systems
- Associate Professor of Agricultural Education
- Undergraduate Program Coordinator - AEE
- Director - Center for Professional Personnel Development
Areas of Expertise
- Science Literacy
- Teacher Education
- School-based Agricultural Education
- Motivation
- Professor of Food Science
- 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
- Professor of Atmospheric and Climate Science
- 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
- Professor of Dairy Cattle Genetics
- Undergraduate Adviser, Dairy, Genetics
- Email cdechow@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-3659
- Professor Emeritus 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
- Graduate Studies Committee Chair
- Professor-in-Charge of the CSL Behring Fermentation Facility
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
- Associate 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
- Plasma agriculture
- 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
- Professor of Wildlife Ecology
- Leader, PA Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit
Areas of Expertise
- biometrics
- white-tailed deer
- harvest management
- population estimation
- Associate 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
- Assistant Professor of Animal Growth and Muscle Biology
Areas of Expertise
- Meat Science and Muscle Biology
- Email tdobbins@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-0585
- 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
- Professor of Pedology & Director of Graduate Studies
Areas of Expertise
- Soil Science
- Watershed Management
- Landscape Ecology
- Natural Resource Management
- Email pjd7@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-4246
- 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
- Associate Professor of Hydrology
Areas of Expertise
- Ecohydrology
- Hydrology
- Biogeochemistry
- Terrain Analysis
- Water Quality
- Watershed Management
- Clinical Professor Emeritus
- 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
- Control of lipid oxidation in foods
- Antioxidant systems for foods and beverages
- Metal catalyzed oxidation reactions in foods
- Analysis of lipid oxidation markers
- Oxidative and flavor stability of fermented beverages (e.g., wine, beer)
- 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
- Land-based recycling of effluents and residuals
- 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 sce6@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
- 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
- Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Education
- Professor of Agricultural and Extension Education
Areas of Expertise
- Teacher Preparation
- Experiential Learning
- Email jce122@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-3304
- Professor Emeritus
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)
- Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics
Areas of Expertise
- Food Policy
- Health Economics
- International Trade
- Email lpf5158@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-5575
- 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
- Ralph O. Mumma Professor of Entomology and Department Head of Entomology
- Associate Professor of Fisheries Management
- 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
- Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Medical entomology
- Vector ecology and behavior
- Vector control
- Vector-borne disease epidemiology
- Invasion biology
- Distinguished Professor Emerita of Environmental and Resource Economics, and Public Policy
Areas of Expertise
- Economy-wide modeling
- Climate change impacts and adaptation
- Integrated assessment
- Professor Emeritus of Entomology
Areas of Expertise
- Insect population dynamics
- IPM
- Email sjf4@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-7788
- Assistant Professor of Root Biology
Areas of Expertise
- Root ecology
- Rhizosphere Microbiome
- Cover Crops
- Ecophysiology/Abiotic Stress
- Agroecosystem Services
- Email suf44@psu.edu
- Pronouns She/Her
- Professor of Plant Genetics
Areas of Expertise
- Plant genetics and breeding
- Molecular breeding
- Biotic stresses
- Abiotic stresses
- Plant nutritional quality
- Tomato
- Associate Professor
- Agricultural Teacher Educator
- Global Teach Ag Network Co-Founder
Areas of Expertise
- Agricultural Teacher Education
- Teaching and Learning in Agriculture
- Designing Global Learning in Agriculture
- Developing Global Competency in Agriculture Workforce
- 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,
- Teaching Professor, Agribusiness Management
- Agribusiness Management Undergraduate Program Coordinator,
- Co-Founder Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program
Areas of Expertise
- Entrepreneurship
- Strategy
- Agritech entrepreneurship
- Bio-renewable building product technologies
- Firm-industry analytics
- Email mag199@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-0469
- Associate 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
- Associate Professor of Controlled Environment Agriculture
Areas of Expertise
- Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA)
- Vertical Farming
- Plant Physiology
- Advanced Agricultural & Food Systems
- Stable Isotope Applications in Plant Science
- Email pfg5241@psu.edu
- Office 814-810-8530
- 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
- Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Areas of Expertise
- Machinery Design
- Mechatronics and Robotics
- Precision/Digital Agriculture
- UAVs applications in Agriculture
- Remote Sensing and Wireless Sensor Network
- Artificial intelligence applications in Agricultural System
- Professor of Rural Sociology and Science, Technology, and Society
- Email llg13@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-8636
- Professor Emeritus 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
- 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
Areas of Expertise
- Habitat Quality Monitoring
- Associate Professor Emeritus 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 Entomology
Areas of Expertise
- Landscape and Spatial Ecology
- Integrated Pest Management
- Crop Pollination
- Sustainable Agriculture
- 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
- Assistant Professor of Pharmacology
Areas of Expertise
- Gut microbiome
- Childhood undernutrition
- Small intestine microbial ecology
- Environmental enteropathy
- Global health
- 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, Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences
Areas of Expertise
- Bees
- Genomics, Immunity, Behavior, Physiology, Ecology
- Decision Support Tools
- Technology for Identification and Monitoring of Insects
- Associate Dean for Research Operations and Graduate Education
- Associate Director of the Pennsylvania Agricultural State Experiment Station
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
- 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
- Assistant Professor in Regional and Agricultural Economics
Areas of Expertise
- Regional and Urban Economics
- Rural Economic Development
- Entrepreneurship Economics
- Labor Economics
- 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
- Professor of Food Science
Areas of Expertise
- Dairy Processing
- Food Rheology
- Food Engineering
- Email fmh14@psu.edu
- Office 814-867-5689
- C. Lee Rumberger Chair in Agricultural Sciences
- 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
- Associate 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 717-778-4599
- Professor Emeritus
Areas of Expertise
- Specialty crop mechanization and automation
- Precision agriculture applications for specialty crops
- Applications of artificial intelligence to agricultural systems management and control
- Email hzh@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-2633
- Professor Emeritus of Dairy Science
Areas of Expertise
- Heifer nutrition and management
- Effective fiber for dairy cows
- Email ajh@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-3916
- Tombros Early Career Professor
- Assistant Professor of Arthropod Ecology and Trophic Interactions
Areas of Expertise
- Predator-Prey Interactions
- Arthropod Ecology
- Behavioral Ecology
- Chemical Ecology
- Biological Control
- Tombros Early Career Professor
- Assistant Professor of Arthropod Ecology and Trophic Interactions
Areas of Expertise
- Predator-Prey Interactions
- Arthropod Ecology
- Behavioral Ecology
- Chemical Ecology
- Biological Control
- 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 Emerita of Rural Sociology
Areas of Expertise
- food systems
- sustainable agriculture
- agrarian change
- sustainability transitions
- Associate Professor of Microbial Ecology
Areas of Expertise
- Bacteriology
- Phyllosphere Microbiology
- Protein-mediated Bacterial Antagonism
- Molecular Biology
- Disease Suppression
- Program Coordinator, Landscape Contracting Major
- Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Biological filtration
- Natural Swimming Pools
- Sustainable Landscape Design
- Green Infrastructure
- Associate Professor Emerita of Dairy Science
Areas of Expertise
- Dairy Advisory Teams
- Integrated Dairy Management
- Email lah7@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-3672
- Emerita 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
- Associate Professor of Food Science
- Director of Graduate Studies, Food Science
- Program Chair, Graduate Certificate Sensory & Consumer Science
Areas of Expertise
- Sensory & Consumer Science
- Flavor Chemistry & Flavor Biochemistry
- Sensometrics & Multivariate Statistics
- Food Packaging
- Email hxh83@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-5572
- Pronouns She/Her
- Clinical Professor & Extension Veterinarian
- Resident Director, Animal Diagnostic Lab
- Veterinary Extension Team Leader
Areas of Expertise
- Epidemiology
- Biosecurity and Infectious Disease Management
- Bovine Hoof Health, Mastitis, Milk Quality & Milking Equipment
- Johne's Disease
- On-farm Food Safety
- Distinguished Professor of Dairy Nutrition
Areas of Expertise
- Dairy Nutrition
- Protein Nutrition of Dairy Cows
- Rumen Fermentation
- Nitrogen Utilization
- Methane Mitigation
- Environment
- Assistant Teaching Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Areas of Expertise
- Water/soil conservation
- Stormwater management
- Agricultural structure
- Best management practice
- Agricultural and environmental sustainability
- Professor of Turfgrass Breeding and Genetics
- Email drh15@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-9805
- Assistant Professor of Reproductive Biology
Areas of Expertise
- Reproductive biology
- Ovarian function
- Reproductive-immune interaction
- Email chkh@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-7024
- Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Global Food Security
Areas of Expertise
- My background is evolutionary biology and specifically the behavioral ecology of parasites and ants. Mostly, I worked on the extended phenotype concept, which was put forward by Richard Dawkins. I worked on different models, such as Strepsiptera in wasps and ants, nematodes in ants, and fungi that manipulate ant behavior- 'zombie ants'.
- But in the course of that work, I also did significant work on taxonomy, genomics, metabolomics, histology, ultrastructural morphology, machine learning to enable ant tracking, and some paleontology (which was fun).
- Since starting PlantVillage in 2012, I have worked extensively on machine learning, specifically computer vision of crop diseases, but later extending to computer vision to enable dietary (with Aulo Gelli at IFPRI). I have worked extensively on climate science, especially adaptation and use of satellites and machine learning to understand soil moisture or both ground biomass (with Amulya Yadav and Chaopeng Shen at Penn State). I have also worked on the invention and development of mobile Pyrolosis systems (with Dries Roobroeck and Sheldon Inyana) and capture and storage of carbon in concrete (with Maa'va who worked with Penn State concrete researchers). As the Director of the USAID Innovation Lab (Current and Emerging Threats to Crops), I worked on (and oversaw) research on scaling solutions to global food insecurity. Given the focus on solutions, I then started PlantVillage+ Inc, a Delaware C Corp spun out from the university in 2024 (and part owned by Penn State). To enable co-operative structures and long-term public benefit, PlantVillage+ is being co-founded with Annalyse McCloskey.
- More recently, and given my interest in PlantVillage/PlantVillage+ as a public good, I've become very interested in intellectual property arising from public funding , the organizational structures of corporations and particularly universities and worker cooperatives. Currently doing a study on the evolution of university systems with my alma mater, Oxford, as a case study and the nature of corporate bodies across time, including cooperatives.
- Associate Professor Emeritus 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 Research Professor in Electronics, Instrumentation and Control Systems
Areas of Expertise
- AI, automation, robotics, electronics, and advanced controls in agriculture including:
- Specialty crop production
- Controlled-environment agriculture (CEA)
- Agricultural health and safety
- Assistant Research Professor of Veterinary Extension
- Extension Veterinarian
Areas of Expertise
- One Health
- Social science approaches to One Health outcomes
- International dairy systems
- Antimicrobial stewardship
- Behavioral context of on-farm beliefs, decision-making, and practices
- 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
- Professor of Soil and Water Resources Engineering; Agricultural and Natural Resources 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
- Assistant Research Professor
- 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
Areas of Expertise
- Laboratory Animal and Comparative Medicine
- 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
- Professor of Agricultural Economics
Areas of Expertise
- Economic modeling of food purchase behavior
- Link between food behavior and health
- Food Waste
- Retail food product offerings and prices
- Organic food and agriculture
- Assistant Teaching Professor
- Email brj8@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-7118
- Professor Emeritus
Areas of Expertise
- Wood products processing and manufacturing
- Wood composite material systems
- Professor Emeritus
Areas of Expertise
- Diagnostic Microbiology
- Veterinary Public Health
- Food Safety
- Epidemiology
- New and Emerging Infectious Diseases
- 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
- Department Head, Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology
- Professor of Plant Pathology
Areas of Expertise
- Population biology
- Ecology of plant-associated microorganisms
- Fusarium and Verticillium wilts
- Assistant Teaching Professor of Beef Production
Areas of Expertise
- Livestock Evaluation and Selection
- Beef Cattle Production and Management
- Walther H. Ott Professor in Avian Biology
- 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 of Turfgrass Science, 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.
- 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 Dean for Undergraduate Education
Areas of Expertise
- Teaching and Learning
- Undergraduate Instruction
- Animal Science
- Dairy Production
- Email elw152@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-7521
- Pronouns She/Her
- 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, Epigenetics, 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
- Professor of Forest Ecology
Areas of Expertise
- Global change ecology
- Forest ecology
- Dendrochronology
- Community ecology
- Associate Research Professor Emeritus of Food Science
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 Faculty in the 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
- Associate 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
- Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology and Demography
Areas of Expertise
- Rural Poverty
- Spatial Inequality (community and rural/urban inequalities and development issues)
- State and Local Governments
- Social Policy
- Racialized Inequality
- Email pfk5055@psu.edu
- Pronouns She/Her
- Associate Head, Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education
- Professor of Agricultural Economics
- Community, Environment, and Development Program Coordinator
- Interim Department Head and 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
- Water Resources Extension Specialist
Areas of Expertise
- Water Quality
- Drinking Water Treatment
- Private Water Systems
- Emerging Contaminants
- Email ffk5024@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-4622
- 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
- Assistant Research Professor Emeritus of Animal Science
- Email dkniffen@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-7809
- Assistant Teaching Professor
- Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences Undergraduate Program Coordinator
- One Health Minor Coordinator
Areas of Expertise
- One Health
- Public Health Preparedness
- Small Animal Veterinary Medicine
- Veterinary Medical School Matriculation
- Distinguished Professor of Clay Mineralogy
Areas of Expertise
- Materials from plants and plant by-products
- Use of clays for remediation;Slow release fertilizers with minerals
- Associate Professor of Physiology
- Email dhk102@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-5679
- Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Microbiomes in Food Safety
- Associate Professor of Food Science
Areas of Expertise
- Microbial Food Safety
- Foodborne Pathogens
- Genomic Epidemiology
- Microbiomes in Food Systems
- Antimicrobial Resistance
- Email jzk303@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-2883
- Director, Fruit Research and Extension Center
- Extension Tree Fruit Entomologist
- Research Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Insect plant interactions
- Integrated pest management
- Biological control
- Tree fruit insect pests
- Insects rearing
- Laboratory and field bioassays
- Invasive insect pests
- Pesticide resistance
- Associate Research Professor
- Fire and Natural Resources Management
Areas of Expertise
- Fire Ecology
- Fire Behavior and Effects
- Associate Professor of Forest Resources Management
Areas of Expertise
- Social and economic values associated with private forests, including prescribed fire, wildlife, and carbon sequestration.
- Head of Department of Animal Science
- Professor of Reproductive Biology
- Email rlk5688@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-9169
- Assistant Professor of Tree Fruit
Areas of Expertise
- Fruit Crop Physiology
- Apple and Peach Production
- Crop Load Management
- Plant Growth Regulators
- Post-harvest physiology
- Senior Associate Dean, College of Agricultural Sciences
- Email lzk68@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-5461
- Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Mycotoxins
- Endophytes
- Fusarium
- Fungal genetics
- Fungal secondary metabolites
- Agricultural biosecurity
- Assistant Teaching Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Dairy/beef cattle, small ruminant herd health and preventative medicine
- Food animal disease identification/diagnostics and treatment plans
- Rural veterinary medicine/emergency triage and small business support
- Email jodykull@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-6702
- Associate Professor of Agricultural and Extension Education
- Director of Graduate Studies for Education, Development, and Community Engagement (EDCE) Graduate Program
Areas of Expertise
- Program Evaluation
- Human Dimensions of Natural Resource Management
- Behavior Change Theories and Frameworks
- Social Network Analysis
- Survey Methodology
- Research Methods and Applied Data Analysis
- Associate Research Professor of Food Science
Areas of Expertise
- Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry
- Production of Wine, Beer, and Cider
- Plant Derived Metabolites
- Professor Emeritus of Food Science and Extension Specialist
Areas of Expertise
- Tracking Listeria monocytogenes in produce production and processing environments
- Food safety validation of mushroom growing, packing, and processing.
- L. monocytogenes in tree fruit packinghouses.
- Farm food safety (Good Agricultural Practices) training
- Hazards Analysis and Risk Based Preventive Controls training
- Technical assistance to home and commercial food processors
- Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA)
- Email lfl5@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-2298
- Professor and Department Head
- Email cam125@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-0992
- Professor of Biology and BMB
- Email zcl1@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-0479
- Professor of Food Science
- Co-Director, Center for Plant and Mushroom Foods for Health
Areas of Expertise
- Cancer Prevention by Dietary Components
- Obesity and Inflammation Prevention by Dietary Components
- Food Toxicology
- Bioavailability and Biotransformation of Dietary Components
- Natural Products Chemistry
- Instructor of Chemistry
- Email fal100@psu.edu
- Office 717-771-4051
- Emeritus Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Turfgrass weed management
- Turfgrass nutrient management
- Irrigation water quality
- Composts as soil amendments
- Evaluation of turfgrass species and cultivars
- Management and selection of grasses for non-mowed/naturalized areas
- Email pjl1@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-1017
- Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics
- Email jbl6@psu.edu
- Office 610-396-6183
- Associate Professor of Physics
- Email tml10@psu.edu
- Office 610-892-1342
- Assistant Dean for Access and Equity
- Research Professor of Quantitative Forest Ecology
- Email lpl3@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-4244
- Professor of International Affairs and Affiliate Law Faculty
- Email fll10@psu.edu
- Office 814-867-2238
- Professor of Psychology and Linguistics
- Email pul8@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-3921
- Assistant Professor of Agribusiness Management
Areas of Expertise
- Consumer Economics
- Food Policy
- Assistant Professor of Invasive Species Biology and Management
- Clinical Professor
- Avian Diagnostic and Outreach Veterinarian
Areas of Expertise
- Diagnostic pathology – avian species
- Field diagnostic investigations – chickens, turkeys, upland gamebirds, waterfowl, hatchery, and processing
- Emphasis on diagnosis, prevention, and control of infectious diseases of commercial poultry
- Turkey production medicine, including clostridial diseases and reoviral hepatitis
- Associate Professor in Community Development and Resilience
- Co-Director, Center for Economic and Community Development
Areas of Expertise
- Historical geographies of food production
- Food system equity
- Vacant land reuse
- Urban food production
- Politics of marginalization
- Social and spatial justice
- Community development
- Civic participation
- Politics of knowledge and epistemic pluralism
- Abolition geography
- Email jlindemann@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-8646
- Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
- Coordinator for Agricultural Systems Management Minor; Off-Road Equipment Minor
Areas of Expertise
- Agricultural Machinery
- Machine design and test
- Biomass harvesting, handling and logistics
- Biomass in-field processing and densification
- Hydraulics and Pneumatic system design and test
- Email jliu@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-6844
- Professor of Animal Genomics
- Undergraduate Adviser
- Graduate Faculty in Animal Science, Bioinformatics and Genomics (BG), Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Biosciences (MCIBS), and Integrative and Biomedical Physiology programs.
Areas of Expertise
- Structural, functional and comparative genomics
- Animal breeding and genetics
- Epigenetics/epigenomics
- Mammalian sex (X and Y) chromosome and evolution
- Ruminant Y-linked genes and male fertility
- Testis development and spermatogenesis
- Email wul12@psu.edu
- Office 814-867-1673
- Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics
Areas of Expertise
- Food Marketing
- Food and Energy Policy
- Energy Economics
- Industrial Organization
- Applied Econometrics
- Email yul459@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-8039
- Associate Teaching Professor
- Email kll24@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-2194
- Affiliate Professor of Food Science
- Nancy and John Steimer Professor of Agricultural Sciences
- Associate Professor of Entomology
- Associate Professor of Poultry Science and Avian Health
Areas of Expertise
- Diseases of Broilers
- Coccidiosis
- Necrotic Enteritis
- Ascites
- Clinical Professor Emeritus
- Avian Virologist
Areas of Expertise
- Avian Virology- Isolation/Identification of Various Avian Viruses
- Animal Models for Pathogenicity and Vaccine-Challenge Studies
- Avian Influenza Virus Monoclonal Antibodies & Assays Development
- Avian Reovirus Genotyping and Full Genomic Characterizations
- NGS-Next Generation Sequencing in Diagnostic Virology
- Molecular & Monoclonal-based Virology Assays Development
- Biosensor and Nanotechnology Assays in Virus Detection
- Professor Emeritus of Rural Sociology
Areas of Expertise
- mixed-methods research
- human dimensions of natural resources
- rural community development
- survey research
- University Distinguished Professor
Areas of Expertise
- crop ecophysiology
- plant adaptation to abiotic stress
- plant genetics
- simulation modeling
- Associate Professor of Entomology
Areas of Expertise
- Veterinary Entomology
- Tick ecology and control
- Filth fly management and behavior
- Wildlife entomology
- Arthropod behavior
- Lloyd and Dottie Huck Chair of Functional Genomics
- Professor of Biology
- Professor of Plant Science
- Email sam795@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-8324
- Teaching Professor
- Equine Science Minor Coordinator
Areas of Expertise
- Lactation Biology
- Milk Composition
- Animal Welfare
- Equine Science
- Email alm106@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-4202
- Associate Professor of Biology and Environmental Studies. Penn State Altoona.
- Email cgm2@psu.edu
- Office 814-949-5000
- Professor of Biology
- Email jhm10@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-1384
- Professor of Horticulture
Areas of Expertise
- Tree and Small Fruit Physiology
- Fruit production systems
- Data Analysis
- Email rpm12@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-2251
- Adjunct Assistant Professor of Wildlife Conservation
- National Park Service
- Director of Student Recruitment and Activities
- Email mnm11@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-3942
- Assistant Clinical Professor of Precision Dairy Nutrition
Areas of Expertise
- Precision Dairy Nutrition
- Feed and Feeding Management
- Nutrient Use Efficiency
- Dairy Cattle Production
- Email lxf5262@psu.edu
- Office 929-331-0238
- Associate Clinical Professor
- Virology/Molecular Diagnostics Section Head
Areas of Expertise
- Classic Virology
- Viral Diagnostics
- Viral Pathogenesis
- Virus-Host Interactions
- Viral Vector-Based Vaccines
- Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Areas of Expertise
- Fate and transport of emerging contaminants in soils, sediments, and residuals
- Scholarship of teaching and learning
- Assistant Professor of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Areas of Expertise
- Virtual and mixed reality environments for ingestive behavior research;
- fMRI and behavioral technology for food cue responses;
- AI for distary interventions;
- digital health promotion
- Email tpm5262@psu.edu
- Office 814-867-4087
- Research Professor of Plant Biotechnology
Areas of Expertise
- Plant Biotechnology
- Plant Functional Genomics
- Plant Tissue Culture
- Plant Propagation
- Plant Disease Resistance
- Plant – Microbes Interactions
- Associate Professor of Forest Management
- Associate Professor of Landscape Contracting
- Email mrm19@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-7595
- Professor of Turfgrass Science
- Program Coordinator - Turfgrass Science (BS) and World Campus (online) programs
Areas of Expertise
- Turfgrass Entomology
- Insect behavior
- Biological Control
- Cultural and mechanical control
- Insect Ecology
- Insecticide resistance
- Email bam53@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-1138
- Professor Emerita of Rural Sociology and Demography
Areas of Expertise
- Community change and family and individual well-being
- Rural youth
- Consequences of Marcellus Shale development for families and communities
- Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Fire blight resistance in apple trees
- Biologically-based approaches to fire blight disease control
- Development of citrus greening-resistant citrus varieties
- Molecular genetics of Erwinia amylovora pathogenicity
- Development of tomatoes resistant to bacterial canker disease
- Understanding rootstock-scion interactions in grafted apple trees
- Emeritus Professor of Soil Science
Areas of Expertise
- Turfgrass Soil Physical Properties
- Playing surface characterization and safety
- Athletic Field and Golf Course Drainage
- Athletic Field and Golf Course Construction and Maintenance
- Email amcnitt@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-1368
- Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Areas of Expertise
- Water quality
- Stormwater management
- Green infrastructure
- Urban ecohydrology
- Biogeochemistry
- Former Head and Professor Emeritus, Department of Ecosystem Science and Management
Areas of Expertise
- Silviculture
- Forest Ecology
- Forest Soils
- Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Areas of Expertise
- Safety
- Trade Secrets
- Packaging & Pallets
- Sustainable Business
- Sports Greening
- Wood, Building Products, Paper Industries
- Teaching Professor
- Undergraduate Program Coordinator, Animal Science Major
Areas of Expertise
- Undergraduate Services and Curriculum
- Food Animal Systems
- Livestock Odor Assessment and Reduction
- Animal Industries
- Email rem9@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-2987
- Professor of Wildlife Population Ecology
- Professor of Geography
Areas of Expertise
- remote sensing
- GIS
- soils
- geomorphology
- land change
- Associate Teaching Professor of International Agriculture
- Email mjm727@psu.edu
- Office 814-867-3831
- Associate Professor Emeritus of Meat Science
- Email emills@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-2394
- Professor Emerita of Agricultural and Extension Education
- Former Director, Penn State Better Kid Care Program
Areas of Expertise
- Early childhood development
- Youth development and resiliency
- Early care and education workforce development
- Childhood obesity prevention
- Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Pheromone biology
- Chemoreceptors
- Genomics
- Forest entomology
- Email rfmitchell@psu.edu
- Pronouns He/Him
- Assistant Professor of Pharmacology
Areas of Expertise
- Host-Microbiome Communication
- Untargeted Mass-Spectrometry and Metabolomics
- Data Science and repository sale analysis
- Bile Acid Diversity in Human Health and Disease
- Metabolic signatures in Diet and Aging
- Teaching Professor
- Associate Research Professor
- Cropping Systems Modeling
Areas of Expertise
- Physically Distributed Hydrological Modeling
- Agricultural Systems Modeling
- Air Pollution and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Agriculture
- Micrometeorological Measurements and Eddy Covariance Systems
- Laser Diffraction Soil Particle Size Analysis
- Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)
- Instrumentation
- Email frm10@psu.edu
- Office 814-867-4612
- Assistant Teaching Professor of Soil Science
Areas of Expertise
- Soil Science
- Professor of Weed and Applied Plant Ecology
- Associate Professor and Professor-in-Charge of Honors Programs, Recreation, Park and Tourism Management
- Email ajm194@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-2102
- Professor Emeritus of Entomology
- Email camullin@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-2435
- Assistant Professor of Ecology
- Email ldm12@psu.edu
- Office 215-881-7474
- Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture
- Email tmm184@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-8132
- 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
- Assistant Clinical Professor
- Bacteriology / Mammalian Serology Section Head
- Research-Teaching Assistant Professor
- Behavioral Economics as Applied to Food, Health & the Environment
Areas of Expertise
- Environmental Economics
- Development Economics
- Field Experiments
- Department Head/Professor Recreation, Park and Tourism Management
- Email pbn3@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-7849
- Assistant Clinical Professor
- Avian Diagnostic and Outreach Veterinarian
Areas of Expertise
- Diagnostic pathology - avian species
- Field diagnostic investigations
- Layer and layer breeder production medicine
- Poultry and egg food safety
- Email krn127@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-3036
- Pronouns She/Her
- Assistant Professor of Biology, Beaver Campus
Areas of Expertise
- Plant Biology
- Plant Genetics
- Native and Medicinal Plants
- Email sen130@psu.edu
- Office 724-773-3850
- Assistant Teaching Professor, Dairy and Animal Science
- Undergraduate Adviser, Dairy
- Email dro105@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-3914
- Professor Emeritus of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
- Academy of Toxicological Sciences
Areas of Expertise
- Molecular Toxicology
- Nuclear Receptors
- Gene Regulation
- Email cjo10@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-1625
- Associate Professor Emeritus of Entomology
- Email nxo3@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-2872
- Peter and Ann Tombros Dean;
- Director, Pennsylvania Agricultural Experiment Station
Areas of Expertise
- Reproductive Biology
- Assisted Reproductive Technologies
- Animal Science
- Dairy production
- Agricultural Biotechnology
- Agricultural Sustainability
- Graduate Training
- Undergraduate Instruction
- Email tlo12@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-2541
- Assistant Teaching Professor of African Studies and Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
Areas of Expertise
- Development and Sustainability
- Community-Based Natural Resources and Management
- Traditional Ecological Knowledge
- Agricultural and Pastoral Systems
- Participatory Methods
- Email auo45@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-5406
- Assistant Research Professor
- Teaching Professor of Environmental Policy and Planning
- Courtesy appointment School of Public Policy
Areas of Expertise
- Environmental Governance
- Community Development
- Landscape Systems Design
- Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Areas of Expertise
- Ecohydrology and water quality
- Stream nutrient uptake and biogeochemical cycling
- Agricultural and urban best management practices
- Land use and climate change impacts on watersheds
- Simulation modeling, optimization, and geospatial analysis
- Water-energy-food nexus
- Life cycle assessment
- Email fpp5057@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-5661
- Pronouns She/Her
- Assistant Research Professor
- Email hmpatch@psu.edu
- Office 814-867-3023
- Professor Emeritus of Reproductive Physiology
Areas of Expertise
- Reproductive Biology
- Reproductive Immunology
- Ovarian Function
- Email jlp36@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-0558
- John T. and Paige S. Smith Professorship
- Professor of Molecular Toxicology
- Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Areas of Expertise
- Metabolomics
- Microbiome
- Drug Metabolism
- Metabolism
- Environmental Contaminants
- Professor Emeritus of Poultry Science
- Email php1@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-3414
- Professor of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
- Immunology and Infectious Disease Undergraduate Program Coordinator
Areas of Expertise
- Hematology
- Erythropoiesis
- Anemia Research
- Leukemia
- Research Associate
- Forest Community and Disturbance Ecology
- H. Thomas and Dorothy Willits Hallowell Chair in Agricultural Sciences
Areas of Expertise
- microbiome
- aryl hydrocarbon receptor
- dioxin
- drug metabolism
- toxicology
- transcriptional regulation
- Email ghp2@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-0400
- Distinguished Professor of Youth and Family Resiliency and Policy
- Principal Scientist and Founder, Clearinghouse for Military Family Readiness
- Social Science Research Institute, Co-fund Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Youth and Family Resiliency
- Service Members, Veterans and Military Families
- Applied Research and Evaluation
- Dissemination and Implementation Science
- Evidence-based Programs
- Community Collaboration
- Associate Research Professor, Tree Fruit Pathology
Areas of Expertise
- Apple and pear diseases
- Peach, cherry, other stone fruit diseases
- Integrated tree fruit disease management
- Email kap22@psu.edu
- Office 717-778-4587
- Distinguished Professor of Molecular Toxicology & Carcinogenesis
- Interim Director, The Penn State Cancer Institute
Areas of Expertise
- Molecular toxicology and carcinogenesis
- Nuclear receptors
- Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors
- Cancer
- Lipid metabolism
- Email jmp21@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-1387
- Geospatial Services Librarian
- Head, Donald W. Hamer Center for Maps & Geospatial Information
- Associate Professor, Tenured, Director of Graduate Studies
- Email uxp10@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-4238
- Department Head
- Professor of Immunology and Molecular Toxicology
Areas of Expertise
- Redox biology with an emphasis on selenium and selenoproteins
- Macrophage biology- emphasis on inflammation and resolution
- Endogenous bioactive lipid mediators
- Cancer (leukemia) and leukemia stem cells
- Redox control of stress erythropoiesis during inflammation
- Director - Genomics Core Facility (University Park)
- Email cap142@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-4262
- 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
- Professor of Education (Adult Education)
- Email esp150@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-0597
- Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Areas of Expertise
- Powder Mechanics – fundamental powder and powder mixture properties, multi-scale constitutive models, and computational models for powder processes.
- Food Processing – engineering properties, and integrated multi-scale computational and predictive models.
- Associate Research Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Potato
- Potato diseases
- Email xsq1@psu.edu
- Office 814-867-4928
- Assistant Clinical Professor
- Mammalian Pathology
- Associate Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Areas of Expertise
- Storm water management
- Watershed modeling
- Application of optimization tools in watershed analysis
- Ecohydrological impacts of climate and land use change
- Email craj@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-5616
- Professor Emeritus of Entomology
- Email uvu@psu.edu
- Office 8142808254
- Professor of Endocrinology
- Walther H. Ott Professor in Avian Biology
Areas of Expertise
- Endocrinology
- Ovarian Cancer Research
- Reproductive Biology
- Email rameshr@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-5202
- Associate Professor of International Affairs
Areas of Expertise
- International Development and Globalization, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Political Economy of Agriculture and Food systems
- Social Studies of Science and Technology, with an emphasis on agriculture and food
- Gender, Social Change and Development
- Email exr497@sia.psu.edu
- Office 814-867-2792
- Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Endowed Chair in Disease Epidemiology and Biotechnology
Areas of Expertise
- Wolbachia
- Symbiosis
- Genetically-modified organisms
- Vector-borne disease
- Densovirus
- Population biology
- aquaporins
- Email jlr54@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-3668
- Professor of Medicine, and Cellular and Molecular Physiology
- Email car20@psu.edu
- Office 717-531-5110
- Senior Vice President for Research
- Evan Pugh University Professor of Biology and Entomology
- Email a.read@psu.edu
- Office 814-867-2396
- Distinguished Professor Emeritus
- Director Emeritus The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences
- Associate Professor of Entomology
- Email tur158@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-5752
- Associate Professor of Entomology
- Email tur158@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-5752
- Teaching-Research Assistant Professor
- Agricultural Teacher Education
- Professor Emeritus of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Areas of Expertise
- Lignocellulosic biomass conversion
- Bioenergy
- Manure conversion
- Sustainable agriculture
- Email tlr20@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-3722
- Assistant Teaching Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Poultry Judging
- Poultry Stress Welfare
- Embryology in the Classroom
- Poultry/Broiler Processing
- Poultry Stunning
- Poultry Processing and Products
- Poultry Product Quality
- Professor and Head of Food Science
Areas of Expertise
- Microbiology
- Dairy Products Processing
- Ice Cream
- Yogurt
- Non-dairy Frozen Desserts
- Instructor of Wildlife Technology
- Email kat175@psu.edu
- Office 814-372-3003
- Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology
Areas of Expertise
- Plant-Microbe interactions
- Plant microbiome as a diagnostics tool
- Metabolomics
- Molecular epidemiology
- Bacterial and fungal genetics
- Professor Emeritus
Areas of Expertise
- Adaptation to extreme environments with microbes
- Professor, Plant Virology
Areas of Expertise
- plant virology
- microbe plant interaction
- vectors of plant viruses and of other plant pathogenic microbes
- plant disease prediction and management models
- Email czr2@psu.edu
- Office 814-867-5372
- Emeritus Professor of Agronomy
Areas of Expertise
- Grain crop management
- Corn management and hybrid evaluation
- Corn silage management
- Soybean management and variety evaluation
- Winter wheat management and variety evaluation
- Winter barley management and variety evaluation
- Interseeding cover crops in corn and soybeans
- Professor Emerita of Rural Sociology
Areas of Expertise
- Gender and Agriculture
- Women Farmers
- Sustainable Agriculture
- Gender and Climate Change
- Assistant Research Professor
- 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
- Email ess11@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-2433
- Professor Emeritus of Entomology
- Email mcs5@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-2979
- Associate Teaching Professor in Horticulture
- Email jes10@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-7719
- Associate Professor of Plant Response to Abiotic Stress
- Associate Professor of Entomology and Biology
Areas of Expertise
- Insect physiology, energetics, thermal biology, electronics, 3d printing, trial and error, troubleshooting
- Associate Professor of Turfgrass Nutrition/Soil Fertility
Areas of Expertise
- Soil Chemistry
- Nutrient Fate / Management
- Fertilizer / Amendment Evaluation
- Water Quality
- Data Analysis
- Email mjs38@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-1015
- Associate Professor of Marketing and Local/Regional Food Systems
Areas of Expertise
- Local Food Systems
- Regional Economics
- Production Economics
- Professor of Molecular Virology
- Director, Pathobiology Graduate Program
Areas of Expertise
- Virology
- Infectious Disease
- Viral Budding
- Cellular Trafficking
- Virus-like Particles
- Zoonoses
- Email aps13@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-6781
- Part-Time Research Associate
- Schmitt Lab
- Email pts13@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-0211
- Associate Professor Emerita
- 4-H Curriculum Specialist
- Professor of Pomology
Areas of Expertise
- Tree fruit production
- Orchard management systems
- Crop load management of tree fruit
- Fruit tree pruning and training
- Email jrs42@psu.edu
- Office 717-778-4588
- Goddard Chair - Forestry & Environ. Conservation
- Professor - Ecosystem Science & Management
Areas of Expertise
- Watersheds, high mountain hydrology, glacier loss
- Water-energy-food nexus, water security, transboundary waters
- Resource conservation and policy, climate adaptation
- Energy transitions, renewables, carbon mitigation
- Resilience, adaptation, social-ecological systems
- Appalachians, Alleghenies, Andes, Himalayas
- Professor of Horticulture
- Email jcs32@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-2250
- Assistant Professor of Tree Fruit Production and Physiology
Areas of Expertise
- Main crop of research: apple, peach, pear
- Tree fruit training systems, rootstocks, pruning
- Fruit set, pollination, flower biology
- Netting, precision crop load management
- Fruit quality and pre-harvest fruit quality, consumer liking, dry matter
- Associate Professor of Rural Sociology
- Director of Graduate Studies in Rural Sociology
Areas of Expertise
- Farm labor
- Illegality
- Gender and Migration
- International Development
- Voluntary Sustainability Initiatives in Agriculture
- Gender and Sustainable Agriculture
- Qualitative Research Methods
- Global Service-Learning
- Assistant Teaching Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
- Agricultural and Biorenewable Systems Management
Areas of Expertise
- System dynamics
- Ethical decision making
- Environmental behavior
- Sustainable governance
- Associate Professor Emeritus of Molecular and Developmental Biology
- Affiliate Professor, Dept. of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
- Director, Metabolomics Core Facility, Huck Institutes of Life Sciences
- Email aes5254@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-2274
- Pronouns She/Her
- Associate Research Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Land-Atmosphere Water and Carbon Dioxide Fluxes Modeling
- Meteorology
- Model-Data Assimilation
- Email yshi@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-7393
- Research Associate
- Community and Economic Development Graduate Program Coordinator (and Instructor)
- Co-Director of Consumer Services Information System Project
- Co-Director of State Weatherization program Evaluation Project
- Email jxs10@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-8653
- Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Agricultural and Environmental Economics
- Senior Instructor in Biology
- Instructional Development Specialist
- Email dys100@psu.edu
- Office 724-334-6092
- Associate Professor of Equine Science
- Equine Extension Specialist
- Email dxs1172@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-7810
- Professor Emeritus
Areas of Expertise
- B2B marketing - bioproduct industries
- Biorefinery value stream outputs
- Director, Metabolomics Core Facility (University Park)
- Email pbs13@psu.edu
- Office 814-867-4641
- Teaching Professor in Forest Resources and
- Natural Resources & Youth Extension Specialist
Areas of Expertise
- Youth and Natural Resources Education
- Forest Stewardship
- Natural Resources Volunteerism
- Private Forestland Management
- Connecting Youth with Nature
- Forest Dendrology and Botany
- Associate Professor of Geography
- Director for the Center for Landscape Dynamics
- Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology
Areas of Expertise
- Comparative-historical Analysis
- Agricultural production and environmental sustainability
- Latin America and the Carribean
- United States
- Race, Scale, and Agrarianism
- Farmer and Farmworker Stress
- Qualitative Research Methods
- Community-Based Participatory Research
- Email ars7770@psu.edu
- Office 8149549381
- Pronouns He/Him/Él
- Associate Professor of Art History and Anthropology
- Email als66@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-4883
- Professor of Mechanical engineering
- Email hjs1@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-8997
- Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology
Areas of Expertise
- Agri-food systems
- Community development
- Climate justice
- Land use change
- Critical data science
- Qualitative methodologies
- Email kspangler@psu.edu
- Pronouns she/her/hers
- Associate Professor
- Email tes13@psu.edu
- Office 717-531-4623
- 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
- Email wstaniar@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-0698
- Distinguished Professor of Ichthyology
- Professor of Environmental Soil Science
Areas of Expertise
- Composting and compost utilization
- Mined land reclamation
- Restoration of degraded soils
- Biomass crop production
- Assistant Professor of Reproductive Biology
Areas of Expertise
- Reproductive Biology
- Uterine and Placental Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Fetal Development
- Endocrinology
- Email cms9086@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-7110
- Assistant Professor of Turfgrass Soils
- Director, Center for Sports Surface Research
Areas of Expertise
- Sports field management; golf course management; precision turfgrass management; soil moisture dynamics; resource use efficiency; spatial variability; precision irrigation; sensors; autonomous technologies
- Assistant Research Professor of Aquatic Science
Areas of Expertise
- Freshwater Ecology
- Aquatic Invertebrates
- Paleolimnology
- Climate Change
- Email jfs6745@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-1143
- Pronouns He/Him/His
- Associate Professor Emeritus of Equine Science
Areas of Expertise
- Implementing Conservation Practices
- Environmental Stewardship
- Equine Care and Management
- Equine Nutrition
- Equine Pasture and Manure Management
- Riding Area Surfaces
- Professor Emeritus
- Email dmsylvia@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-6726
- Attending Veterinarian
- Email tjs7422@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-1495
- Assistant Professor of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management
- Email bdt3@psu.edu
- Office 814-867-1756
- Professor of Landscape Architecture
- Email krt1@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-2377
- Professor of Rural Sociology, Sociology, and Demography
- Director, Population Research Institute
Areas of Expertise
- Population and environment
- Climate change and health
- International development
- Poverty and inequality
- Migration
- Email bct11@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-2561
- Assistant Clinical Professor
- Mammalian Diagnostic Pathologist
- Email ajt237@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-0171
- Associate Teaching Professor Emeritus
Areas of Expertise
- Electronic instrumentation and control
- Fluid power systems
- Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology
- Social Science Research Institute Co-funded Faculty Member
Areas of Expertise
- Climate Change
- Environmental Health
- Social Dimensions of Energy
- Political Economy
- Quantitative Methods
- Email rmt5827@psu.edu
- Pronouns He/Him
- Professor Emerita of Rural Sociology and Demography
Areas of Expertise
- rural poverty and livelihoods
- spatial inequality
- gender and development
- gender, disaster, and climate change
- Email art14@psu.edu
- Office 814-954-2735
- Assistant Teaching Professor of Agribusiness Management
- Email apt5453@psu.edu
- Office 814-867-0109
- Professor of Entomology
- Director of Graduate Studies
- Coordinator of Entomology minor
- State IPM Coordinator and Director of the PA IPM program
Areas of Expertise
- Insect ecology
- Plant-insect interactions
- Conservation biological control
- Chemical ecology
- Gall insects
- Email tooker@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-7082
- DuPont/Class of 1949 Professor of Philosophy
- Nancy Tuana Directorship, Rock Ethics Institute
- Email nat3@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-1653
- Associate Teaching Professor
- Email jwt4@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-5949
- Extension Educator, Apiculture
Areas of Expertise
- Apiculture
- Email rmu1@psu.edu
- Office 484-268-5208
- Associate Research Professor
- Email jmu2@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-4444
- Extension Veterinarian
- Professor of Veterinary Science
Areas of Expertise
- Ruminant nutrition
- Dairy herd health
- Metabolic disease
- Reproduction
- Nutrition reproduction interactions
- Small ruminants
- Llamas and Alpacas
- Professor of Molecular Toxicology
- Pharmacology and Toxicology Undergraduate Program Coordinator
Areas of Expertise
- Pharmacology and Toxicology
- Nuclear receptors
- Molecular Nutrition
- Drug Discovery
- Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Areas of Expertise
- Bioproducts Systems Analysis
- Process Systems Engineering
- Bioprocess Engineering
- Biomass Valorization
- Biosystems Techno-Economic Analysis and Life-Cycle Assessment
- Professor Emeritus of Poultry Science, Endocrine Physiology, and Nutrition
- Email rxv@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-2516
- IID Faculty
- Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
- Associate Professor of Weed Science
Areas of Expertise
- Weed ecology
- Herbicide-based weed control
- Organic weed management
- Sustainable cropping systems
- Email jmw309@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-1014
- Assistant Professor of Forage Crop Systems
- Professor Emeritus of Soil Science / Soil Physics / Biogeochemistry
Areas of Expertise
- Emerging Contaminants
- Contaminant Fate and Transport
- Contaminant Transport Modeling
- Soil and Water Quality
- Assistant Professor of Meat Science
- Email scw186@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-2741
- Professor of Agricultural Economics Emeritus
Areas of Expertise
- Nonlinear, stochastic, dynamic system solution and simulation
- Applied econometrics
- Household and firm-level choice & performance
- Computational simulation
- Applied game modeling
- Valuation of and economic adaptation to extreme events (e.g. climate change)
- Associate Professor of Food Science
Areas of Expertise
- Food mycology
- Mycotoxins
- Toxicology
- Genotype-phenotype interaction
- Nutritional immunology
- Email jmw970@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-2956
- Assistant Professor of Agricultural Economics
Areas of Expertise
- Agricultural Economics
- Agricultural Finance
- Agricultural Policy
- Dairy Economics
- Farm Management
- Risk Management
- Email rbw5600@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-2652
- Assistant Professor of Pharmacology
Areas of Expertise
- Gut microbiome
- Synthetic biology
- Microbial therapeutics
- Entrepreneurship
- Associate Professor and Extension Specialist, Soil Fertility and Nutrient Management
Areas of Expertise
- Soil Fertility
- Nutrient Management
- Cover Crops
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling
- Cropping System Modeling
- Email cmw29@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-1016
- Associate Professor, Youth and Adult Leadership, Penn State Extension
Areas of Expertise
- Adult and Youth Leadership Development
- Community Leadership Development
- Volunteerism
- Volunteer Leadership Development
- Needs Assessment Research
- Evaluation
- Email sxk75@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-3825
- Assistant Research Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Insect Behavior
- Chemical Ecology
- Insect-Host Interactions
- Integrated Pest Management
- Mushroom Pest Management
- Associate Professor of Environmental Economics
Areas of Expertise
- Environmental Economics
- Urban and Land Use Economics
- Applied Econometrics
- Nonmarket Valuation
- Policy Analysis
- Professor of Geography and Women's Studies
- Email mww11@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-9133
- Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Molecular plant-microbe interactions
- Disease resistance and abiotic stress tolerance
- Functional genomics and biotechnology
- Genome editing and engineering
- Precision breeding and crop improvement
- Gene-edited and genetically modified organisms
- Email yuy3@psu.edu
- Office 814-867-0324
- Instructor of Biology
- Email alv10@psu.edu
- Office 570-450-3000
- Assistant Research Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
- ABE Graduate Program Coordinator
Areas of Expertise
- Engineering Mechanics of Materials; Characterization of Physical and Mechanical Properties of Agricultural and Biological Materials
- Powder Mechanics; Storage, Conveying, Mixing, Size Reduction, Flow, Segregation, and Compaction of Particulate Materials
- Mathematical/numerical modeling, simulation, and analysis of mechanical behavior of particulate materials and biological materials
- Applying mechanical engineering theories to the problems involving biological and particulate materials including renewable energy and consumer products
- Email huy1@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-2807
- Professor Emeritus, Agricultural and Extension Education
- Professor Emeritus of Extension Education
- Assistant Professor in Agricultural Economics
Areas of Expertise
- Consumer Economics
- Industrial Organization
- Food Marketing
- Assistant Professor of Soil-Water Interactions
- Associate Professor of Silviculture
Areas of Expertise
- Forestry
- Silviculture
- Forest ecology
- Disturbance ecology
- Assistant Professor of Agricultural Economics
Areas of Expertise
- Environmental and Resource Economics
- Health Economics
- Environmental Regulation
- Agricultural Policy
- Frederik Sr. and Faith E. Rasmussen Career Development Professor in Food Science
- Assistant Professor of Food Science
Areas of Expertise
- Food Protein Innovation
- Enzyme Discovery
- Protein Design & Generative AI
- Sustainable Bioprocessing & Upcycling
- Food Biochemistry
- Email yjz5549@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-3546
- Assistant Professor of Food Science
Areas of Expertise
- Food Process Engineering
- Artificial Intelligence
- Computational Modeling
- Microwave and Radio Frequency Heating
- Associate Professor of Entomology
- Email fuz59@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-4432
- Assistant Research Professor
- Jeffrey Peters Lab
- Email xzz145@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-7174
- Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Food Science
Areas of Expertise
- Food process engineering
- Food materials science
- Biopolymers
- Chocolate and confectionery
- Head and Professor of Geography
- Email ksz2@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-3094
- Associate Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics
Areas of Expertise
- Environmental and resource economics
- Land economics
- Spatial modeling
- Non-market valuation
- Research Professor of Plant Lipid Metabolism and Abiotic Stress Response
Areas of Expertise
- Plant lipid metabolism
- Plant responses to abiotic stress
- Seed development and seed oil biotechnology
