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- Professor of 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
- Professor of Forest Ecology and Physiology
- Coordinator of Undergraduate Advising,
- Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences Undergraduate Advisor
Areas of Expertise
- Poultry Nutrition
- Bio-Statistics
- Associate Professor of Advertising and Public Relations, Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications
- Associate Professor, Bioinfomatics
- Assistant Professor of Entomology
Areas of Expertise
- Entomology & Nematology
- Insect-Plant Interactions
- Behavioral Ecology
- Chemical Ecology
- Multi-trophic Interactions
- Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences
- Professor of Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics
- Co-Director, Center for Economic and Community Development
- 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
- Assistant Professor of Entomology
Areas of Expertise
- Social behavior
- Chemical ecology
- Pollinators health
- Physiology
- Genetic
- Bumblebees
- Professor of Food Science
- Chair of the Cocoa, Chocolate, and Confectionery Research Group
- 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
- Wildlife Veterinarian, PA Game Commission
- Adjunct Associate Professor
- Senior Lecturer and Research Associate
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
Areas of Expertise
- Invasion Ecology
- Population Genetics
- Wildlife Ecology
- Evolution
- Conservation Biology
- Animal Coloration
- Island Biology
- Alan R. Warehime Professor of Agribusiness
- Director Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- College of Agricultural Sciences
- Associate Professor of Agricultural and Extension Education
- Distinguished Professor of Entomology and Chemical Ecology
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
- Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
Areas of Expertise
- Transition cow management
- Dairy cattle reproduction
- Farm personnel training and performance
- Dairy production medicine
- Cow comfort
- Associate Professor of Avian Biology
- 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
- Professor of Veterinary, Wildlife, and Ecological Toxicology
Areas of Expertise
- Veterinary, Wildlife, and Ecological Toxicology
- One Health
- Declining Amphibians
- Mycotoxins
- Cyanobacterial (blue-green algal) toxins
- 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
- Associate Professor of Horticulture
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 Associate Professor
- Associate Professor of Anthropology
- Professor Of Anthropology
- Distinguished Professor of Entomology and Biology
- Professor of Agricultural and Environmental Economics
- Research Assistant
- Instructor
Areas of Expertise
- Fabrication of research test equipment in metal, wood & plastic
- Computer aided design and analysis
- Design for additive manufacturing
- Engineering education
- Vernon E. Norris Faculty Fellow of Poultry Nutrition
- Assistant Professor of Poultry Science
Areas of Expertise
- Poultry Nutrition
- Feed Manufacturing
- Pellet Quality
- Senior Instructor in Turfgrass Weed Management
- Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture
- Interim Director, Hamer Center
- Vice Provost for Academic Affairs
- Professor of Agricultural and Extension Education
- Consumer Issues
Areas of Expertise
- Personal Financial Education
- Consumer Education
- Associate Professor of Water Resources
- Director, Pennsylvania Water Resources Research Center
- Assistant Director, Penn State Institutes of Energy & Environment
- Associate Professor of Rural Sociology
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
- UNESCO Chair in Community, Leadership, and Youth Development
Areas of Expertise
- Community
- Community and Leadership Development
- International Development
- Research Methods and Statistics
- Social Change/Social Movements
- Rural Sociology
- Environmental/Natural Resource Sociology
Areas of Expertise
- Environmental Economics
- Water Resource Economics
- Nonmarket Valuation
- Behavioral Economics
- Policy Analysis
- Stormwater and Green Infrastructure
- Transportation Economics
- 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
- Clinical Assistant Professor
- Veterinary Pathologist
Areas of Expertise
- Veterinary Forensic Pathology
- Assistant Teaching Professor
- Program Coordinator, Undergraduate Studies, Veterinary & Biomedical Sciences
- 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 Wood Chemistry
- BRS Program Co-coordinator and BioProducts Option Advisor
- Chemistry of Biological Materials
Areas of Expertise
- Chemistry of lignocellulosic materials
- Bio-based polymers
- Wood adhesives and composites
- Associate Professor of Soil Science/Microbial Ecology
Areas of Expertise
- Soil microbiology
- Nitrogen cycle
- Soil quality
- Ecological restoration
- Biogeochemistry
- Department Head
- Professor of Plant Pathology and Systematic Bacteriology
Areas of Expertise
- Phytobacteriology
- Translational Taxonomy
- Systematic Bacteriology
- Biological Control
- Sustainable and Organic Agriculture
- Associate Professor of Civil Engineering
- Faculty Instructor, Ecosystem Science and Management Department
- and
- Plant Science Program Director, Shaver's Creek Environmental Center
Areas of Expertise
- Field Botany, Plant Taxonomy and Systematics, Herbarium Methods
- Non-timber Forest Products (e.g., Maple Syrup, Medicinal/Culinary Plants and Fungi)
- Economic Botany and Ethnobotany
- Forest Biology, Ecology and Stewardship
- Plant Husbandry and Horticulture
- Wild Plant Conservation, Management, and Policy
- Invasive Plant Ecology, Ethnobotany, and Management
- Appalachian Forest Plant Biology, Ecology, and Ethnobotany
- Agroforestry and Agroecology
- Associate Head and Professor of English
Areas of Expertise
- Agricultural science pedagogy and curriculum development
- Plant and fungal reproductive genetics
- Population ecology and genetics with GIS
- Associate Dean and Director of Special Programs
- Meat Extension Specialist
Areas of Expertise
- Processed Meats
- Food Safety
- Thermal Processing & Smoking
- Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point Systems
- Professor of Biology, Behrend College
- 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 of Molecular Genetics
- Director of The Schatz Center for Tree Molecular Genetics
Areas of Expertise
- Genomics
- Conservation Genetics
- Renewable Energy
- Biotechnology
- Assistant Director, Food, Families, and Health Programs
Areas of Expertise
- Nutrition Education
- Health and Wellness
- Associate Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
- Bionanotechnology
Areas of Expertise
- Nanocomposite materials and coatings
- Crystalline nanocellulose production and characterization
- Cellulose synthesis and assembly
- Microbial cellulose production
- Interaction of cellulose with other polysaccharides, proteins, and biologically derived polymers
- Practical development of new biobased materials ranging from sustainable packaging to composites for construction to materials for healthcare.
- Assistant Professor of Viticulture
Areas of Expertise
- Wine grape production
- Grapevine physiology
- cover crops
- cold temperature stress
- Professor of Pathology, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, and Pharmacology
- Associate Professor of Rural Sociology and Demography
- Faculty Director, Population Research Institute's Demographic Methods Core
- Faculty Director, Social Science Research Institute's Geographic Information Analysis Core
Areas of Expertise
- Environmental Demography
- Spatial Demography
- Climate Change, Land Use, and Community Resilience
- Critical Infrastructure/Transportation and Population Change and Health
- Computational and Spatial Analysis
- Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology
Areas of Expertise
- Environmental sociology
- Food and agricultural ethics
- Science, knowledge, and technology
- Culture and consumption
- Social psychology
- Animals and society
- Qualitative research methods
- Assistant Professor of BioRenewable Systems
- Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Areas of Expertise
- Smart sensing systems for precision agriculture
- Robotics/machine vision applications in specialty crop production
- Deep learning and big data analysis for detecting/assessing crop health
- Unmanned aerial system (UAS) in agriculture
- Automation of agricultural production system
- 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
- 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
- Senior Instructor
- Extension Specialist
- - 4-H Youth and Small Specialty Flock Poultry Programs
- Undergraduate Adviser
- Adviser for Poultry Science Club
- Coach Collegiate Poultry Judging
Areas of Expertise
- Embryology in the Classroom
- Poultry Judging
- Purebred and Exhibition Poultry
- Incubation
- Small Specialty Poultry Production
- General Poultry Production Management
- 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
- Assistant Professor and Research Associate
- Director, Southeast Agricultural Research & Extension Center
Areas of Expertise
- Corn Disease
- Soybean Disease
- Wheat Disease
- Field Crops Disease Management
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
- Professor of Food Science;
- Chair of the Ingredients as Materials Impact Group
- Professor of Geography
- Director, Alliance for Earth Sciences, Engineering, and Development in Africa
- Professor of Horticulture
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
- Professor of Weed Science
Areas of Expertise
- Managing weedy plants in agroecosystems
- Conservation tillage and cover crops
- Herbicide use
- Integrated weed management
- Weed management in organic cropping systems
- Professor of Food Science
- Extension Assistant Director of Programs
- Food Safety Extension Specialist - Muscle Foods
- Chair of the Food Safety Impact Group
Areas of Expertise
- Food safety
- Food microbiology
- Foodborne pathogens
- Antimicrobials
- Edible films
- Spoilage
- Meat, poultry, seafood, muscle foods
- HACCP
- Sanitation
- Director and Outreach Associate Professor of Health Policy and Administration
- Pennsylvania Office of Rural Health
- Associate Professor of Soil Science and Environmental Information Systems
- Adjunct Professor of Entomology
- Associate Professor
- Director of the Frost Entomological Museum
- Associate Professor of Dairy Cattle Genetics
- Undergraduate Adviser, Dairy, Genetics
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- Adjunct Professor of Wildlife Ecology
- Leader, PA Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit
Areas of Expertise
- biometrics
- white-tailed deer
- harvest management
- population estimation
- Animal Resource Program & IACUC Veterinarian
- Instructor
- Undergraduate Advisor
Areas of Expertise
- Laboratory Animal Medicine
- Associate Professor of Food Science
- Associate Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
- Instructor, Small Animal Sciences
- 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
- Associate Professor of Pedology
Areas of Expertise
- Soil Science
- Watershed Management
- Landscape Ecology
- Natural Resource Management
- Associate Professor of Food Science
Areas of Expertise
- Microbiology
- Microbial pathogens
- Molecular microbiology
- Microbial genomics
- Food Safety
- Food Microbiology
- Associate 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
- Senior Research Associate
- 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
- Assistant Research Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Rural and Natural Resource Sociology
- Energy & Technology Transitions
- Community and Stakeholder Engagement
- Science and Technology Studies
- Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture
- Instructor, Equine Science
- Penn State Horse Farm Coordinator
- Penn State Horse Judging Team Coach
- Professor of Woody Plant Physiology
- Chair of Ecology Intercollege Graduate Degree Program
Areas of Expertise
- Root biology and ecology
- Mycorrhizal ecology
- Plant Physiological Ecology
- Plant Ecology
- Global Change Biology
- Belowground Ecology
- Fruit tree physiology
- Frederik Sr. and Faith E. Rasmussen Professor of Food Science
- Associate Professor of Food Science
Areas of Expertise
- Food chemistry
- Enology
- Wine oxidation
- Hop chemistry
- Antioxidants
- Lipid oxidation
- Professor of Avian Nutritional Biochemistry
- Director of Graduate Studies - Animal Science Program
- Poultry and Avian Science Minor Coordinator
- Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
- Fate And Control Of Pollutants In Soils And Water
Areas of Expertise
- Fate And Control Of Pollutants In Soils And Water
- Professor
- Ibberson Chair in Urban and Community Forestry
- Extension Specialist, Community and Urban Forestry
- Agribusiness Management Instructor
Areas of Expertise
- consumer markets/behavior
- farm & small firm management
- technology adoption
- marketing strategies & techniques
- Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Professor of Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering, Undergraduate Program Chair of Energy and Fuels Engineering Option
- Assistant 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
- Department Head
- Distinguished Professor of Animal Nutrition
- Associate Professor of Agricultural and Extension Education
- Undergraduate Program Coordinator
Areas of Expertise
- Teacher Preparation
- Experiential Learning
- Professor of Agricultural Engineering
- Environmental Biophysics, Animal Welfare, and Agricultural Emissions
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
- Assistant Professor
- Beef Extension Specialist
Areas of Expertise
- Beef cattle nutrition
- Beef cattle metabolism
- Beef cattle management
- Feedlot nutrition and management
- Professor and Department Head of Entomology
- Associate Professor of Fisheries Management
- Associate Director of Academic Programs
- Professor of Latin American History and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- 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).
- Professor of Forest Resources
- Ibberson Chair of Forest Resource Management
- Pennsylvania Extension Forester
- Director of Center for Private Forests at Penn State
- Co-Chair Human Dimensions of Natural Resources and the Environment
Areas of Expertise
- Human Dimensions of Natural Resources
- Forest Regeneration
- Sustainable Forest Management
- Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics
Areas of Expertise
- Computable general equilibrium modeling
- Climate change impacts and adaptation
- Integrated assessment
Areas of Expertise
- Insect population dynamics
- IPM
- Professor of Plant Genetics
Areas of Expertise
- Plant genetics and breeding
- Molecular breeding
- Biotic stresses
- Abiotic stresses
- Plant nutritional quality
- Tomato
- Agricultural Teacher Educator
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
- Assistant Professor of Biology
- Harbaugh Entrepreneur and Innovation Faculty Scholar
Areas of Expertise
- Entrepreneurship
- Strategy
- AgTech entrepreneurship
- Bio-renewable building product technologies
- Firm-industry analytics
- Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
- Natural Resource Engineering
Areas of Expertise
- Emerging Contaminants
- Contaminant Fate and Transport
- Environmental Hydrology
Areas of Expertise
- Microbiome
- Epidemiology
- Food Production Systems
- Antimicrobial Resistance
- Dairy Cattle
- Mastitis
- Animal Health and Productivity
- Professor and Interim Department Head
- Director, Fusarium Research Center
Areas of Expertise
- Fusarium and Aspergillus
- Fungal genetics
- Fungal systematics and evolution
- Fungal plant and animal pathogens
- Associate Professor of Rural Sociology and Science, Technology, and Society
- Community, Environment, and Development Program Coordinator
- 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
- Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, Professor of Geography, Faculty-In-Charge Environmental Inquiry Minor
- Associate Professor of Food Science
- Division of Science, Berks College
- Department of Food Science, University Park
- Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Professor of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management
- Chair Human Dimensions of Natural Resources and the Environment
- Adjunct Professor, Department of Entomology, Penn State
- Executive Director, GardenGenetics LLC, Bellefonte PA
- Professor & Program Coordinator of VBS Undergraduate Studies
- Professor of Neural and Behavioral Sciences
- Professor of Entomology
- Director, Center for Pollinator Research
Areas of Expertise
- Pollinators
- Honey Bees
- Social Insects
- Genomics
- Immunity
- Behavior
- Physiology
- Associate Professor Vegetable Pathology
Areas of Expertise
- Integrated vegetable disease management
- Plant pathogen diagnosis
- Disease monitoring and forecasting
- Sustainable crop production
- Professor of Plant Molecular Biology
Areas of Expertise
- Plant Genomics and Genetics
- Plant Molecular Biology
- Theobroma cacao (cocoa)
- Assistant Research Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Hydropedology, Near-surface Geophysics, Ecohydrology
- Remote Sensing of Environment, Climate Change
- Critical Zone Science, Ecology and Evolution
- Professor of Forage Management
Areas of Expertise
- Forage Crop Establishment, Management and Utilization
- Perennial Warm-Season Grass Establishment and Management
Areas of Expertise
- Genomics
- Human Genetics
- Exposome
- Genetic Interactions (Epistasis)
- Gene-Environment Interactions
- Complex Disease
- Precision Medicine
- Biomedical Informatics
- Metabolomics
- 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
- Interim Director of the Penn State Fruit Research and Extension Center
- Professor of Agricultural Economics
Areas of Expertise
- Farm Management
- Risk Management
- Production Economics
- Associate Professor of Food Science
Areas of Expertise
- Dairy Processing
- Food Rheology
- Food Engineering
- Associate Professor of Nutritional Physiology
Areas of Expertise
- Milk fat synthesis
- Rumen fatty acid metabolism
- Omega-3 fatty acids
- Distinguished Professor of Microbiology and Infectious Disease
Areas of Expertise
- Immunology
- Infectious Disease
- Microbiology
- Genomics
- Microbiota
- Microbiome
- Bacterial Pathogenesis
- Assistant Professor of Biology
- Associate Professor of Food Science
- Director of Sensory Evaluation Center
Areas of Expertise
- Sensory science
- Human psychophysics
- Taste biology
- Drug delivery systems
- Food choice
- Ingestive behavior
- Consumer acceptability
- 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
- Penn State Volunteer Curator, Pasto Agricultural Museum
- Instructor and Undergraduate Advisor
Areas of Expertise
- Laboratory Animal Medicine and Behavior
- Professor & Department Head of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
- Specialty Crop Production Systems
Areas of Expertise
- Engineering for specialty crop production systems
- Quality evaluation of specialty crops
- Professor of Dairy Science
Areas of Expertise
- Heifer nutrition and management
- Effective fiber for dairy cows
- 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
- Assistant Professor of Animal Science
- Livestock Extension, Swine Specialist
Areas of Expertise
- Swine Production and Management
- Swine Growth and Development
- Swine Reproductive Physiology
- Nutritional Influences on Growth and Development
- Assistant Professor of Biology and Entomology
- Professor of Rural Sociology
Areas of Expertise
- food systems
- sustainable agriculture
- agrarian change
- sustainability
- Assistant Professor of Microbial Ecology
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
- Cooperative Extension, Undergraduate Adviser, Dairy Management
Areas of Expertise
- Dairy Advisory Teams
- Integrated Dairy Management
Areas of Expertise
- Biology and ecology of invasive species
- Symbiosis
- Tritrophic interactions
- Insect virology
- Chemical ecology
- Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education
Areas of Expertise
- Youth leadership development
- Teaching and learning
- Assistant Professor of Food Science
Areas of Expertise
- Sensory Science
- Flavor Chemistry & Flavor Biochemistry
- Trace Analysis
- Sensometrics
- Sensory-assisted Breeding
- Food Packaging
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
- 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
- Assistant Professor of Entomology and Biology
- 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
- Assistant Professor of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management
- Assistant Professor of Forest Resources
- Research Faculty in Wildlife Ecology
- Assistant Dean of Multicultural Affairs
- Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Aerobiology
- Food security
- Integrated Pest Management
- Distinguished Professor of Anthropology
- 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
- Associate 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
- Professor of Wood Products Engineering
- Wood Products Processing and Manufacturing
Areas of Expertise
- Wood products processing and manufacturing
- Wood composite material systems
- Wood structural applications
- Wood composite performance characteristics and related material evaluation methodologies
- Director, Animal Diagnostic Laboratory
- Professor, Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
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
- Demography
- Social Stratification
- International Development
- Rural Sociology
- Associate Professor
- Coordinator and Adviser of the 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
- Tombros Early Career Professor
- Associate Professor, Turfgrass Management
- Director, Golf Course Turfgrass Management Program
Areas of Expertise
- Turfgrass Science
- Turfgrass Management
- Agronomy
- Golf Course Management
- Turfgrass pathology
- plant pathology
- Weed management
Areas of Expertise
- Biocontrol
- Fungal genetics and genomics
- Microbial chemical ecology
- Molecular diagnosis of plant pathogens
- Professor of Agricultural and Extension Education
- 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.
Areas of Expertise
- Microbial pathogenomics and molecular epidemiology.
- 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
- Associate Professor of Soil Biogeochemistry
Areas of Expertise
- Ecosystem ecology
- Nitrogen cycle
- Carbon cycle
- Forest ecosystems
- Sustainable agriculture
- Associate Professor of Forest Ecology
Areas of Expertise
- Global change ecology
- Forest ecology
- Dendrochronology
- Community ecology
- Dairy Foods Research & Extension Associate
Areas of Expertise
- Dairy Food Processing & Quality
- Dairy Food Safety
- Sensory Analysis of Dairy Products
- Dairy Foods Extension
- Artisanal Cheese
- 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
- Associate Professor of Geosciences
- Professor of Horticultural Marketing and Business Management
- Affiliate Appointment: Agribusiness Management, Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education
Areas of Expertise
- Wine marketing strategies
- Wine consumer attitudes and behaviors
- Produce and ethnic food marketing
- Retail layout and design
- Social media strategies
Areas of Expertise
- Metabolomics
- Natural Product Chemistry
- Bioinformatics
- Antimicrobial Discovery
- Ethnobotany and Indigenous Knowledge
- Professor of Agricultural Economics
- Co-Director, Center for Economic and Community Development
- Associate Professor of Production Systems and Modeling
Areas of Expertise
- Agroecosystems
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling
- Hydrologic and Nutrient Cycling Modeling
- Environmental Biophysics
- Plant Ecophysiology
- Professor, Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
- Director, Animal Resource Program
Areas of Expertise
- comparative medicine
- animal models
- infectious disease and biocontainment
- rodent pathology
- animal behavior
- laboratory animal resource management
- veterinary medicine
- Associate Professor of Geography
- Assistant Professor of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
Areas of Expertise
- Immunologic mechanisms of Bordetella
- Pathogenesis of Francisella tularensis
- Host-pathogen interactions
- Development of BSL-3 research programs
- Adjunct Professor of Food Science
- Professor of Food Science
- Assistant Professor of Animal Science
- Undergraduate Adviser, Beef Cattle
- Block and Bridle Club Adviser
- Collegiate Cattlewomen Adviser
- 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
- Assistant Professor of Food Science
Areas of Expertise
- Food Microbiology
- Food Safety
- Foodborne Pathogens
- Antimicrobial Resistance
- Epidemiology
- Comparative, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
- Microbiomes
- Extension Tree Fruit Entomologist
- Senior Research Associate/Research Associate 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
- Assistant Professor of Fire and Natural Resources Management
Areas of Expertise
- Fire Ecology
- Fire Behavior and Effects
- Assistant Professor of Forest Resource Management
Areas of Expertise
- Forest Policy and Economics
- Social and economic values associated with private forests, wildlife and water resources
Areas of Expertise
- Zoonotic and Emerging Viruses
- Diagnostic assay development
- Immune responses to viruses
- Viral pathogenesis
- Viral vaccines and Anti-virals
- Department Head of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education
- Professor of Rural Sociology and Demography
Areas of Expertise
- Mycotoxins
- Endophytes
- Fusarium
- Fungal genetics
- Fungal secondary metabolites
- Agricultural biosecurity
- Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Extension Education
Areas of Expertise
- Program Evaluation
- Survey Methodology
- Social Network Analysis
- Research Methods and Applied Data Analysis
- Behavior Change Theories and Frameworks
- Natural Resource Management
- Lester Earl and Veronica Casida Development Professor for Food Safety
- Associate Professor of Food Science
Areas of Expertise
- Tracking Listeria monocytogenes in produce production and processing environments
- Food safety validation of mushroom growing, packing, and processing procedures
- Farm food safety (Good Agricultural Practices) training
- Hazards Analysis and Risk Based Preventive Controls training
- Non-thermal food processing
- Technical assistance to home and commercial food processors
- Professor of Biology and BMB
- Associate 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
- Professor of Vegetable Crops
- Professor of Turfgrass Science
Areas of Expertise
- Turfgrass disease and weed management
- Turfgrass nutrient management
- Soil fertility and fertilizers
- Irrigation water quality
- Composts as soil amendments
- Evaluation of turfgrass species and cultivars
- Management and selection of grasses for non-mowed/naturalized areas
- Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics
- Associate Professor of Physics
- Assistant Professor of Quantitative Forest Ecology
- Professor of International Affairs and Affiliate Law Faculty
- Professor of Psychology and Linguistics
- Assistant Professor in Community Development and Resilience
- Associate Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
- Machinery and Biomass Logistics
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
- Associate Professor of Animal Genomics
- Undergraduate Adviser
- Graduate Faculty in Animal Science, Genetics, Bioinformatics and Genomics Graduate 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
Areas of Expertise
- Food Marketing
- Food and Energy Policy
- Energy Economics
- Industrial Organization
- Applied Econometrics
- Assistant Teaching Professor
- Senior Associate Dean and Professor
- Adjunct Professor of Food Science
- Assistant Professor of Poultry Science and Avian Health
Areas of Expertise
- Diseases of Broilers
- Coccidiosis
- Necrotic Enteritis
- Ascites
- Clinical Professor
- Avian Virologist
- Section Head, Avian Virology, ADL
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
- Instructor
- Immunology and Infectious Disease (IID) Undergraduate Advisor
Areas of Expertise
- Anatomic Pathology
- Clinical Pathology
- Transfusion
- Medicine
- Professor of Plant Nutrition
Areas of Expertise
- crop ecophysiology
- plant adaptation to abiotic stress
- plant genetics
- simulation modeling
- Visiting Associate Professor
- Roossinck Lab
