- 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
- 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
- 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
- Assistant Professor of Weed Science
- Email brunharo@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-9552
- Pronouns He/Him
- Professor of Soil Microbiology and Biogeochemistry
Areas of Expertise
- Soil microbiology
- Nitrogen cycle
- Soil quality
- Ecological restoration
- Biogeochemistry
- 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
- 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
- Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Evolutionary ecology of legumes and rhizobia
- Plant-microbe-climate interactions
- Mutualism evolution
- Bio-inoculants and leguminous cover crops
- Biological nitrogen Fixation
- 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
- 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
- Distinguished Professor of Biology
- Director, Lake Erie Regional Grape Research and Extension Center
Areas of Expertise
- Effects of climate change on dormancy and shoot growth in grapes
- Molecular and bioinformatic tools to investigate the biology of perennial plants with a specific focus on dormancy
- Post-harvest sprouting control in potato
- Email mac17@psu.edu
- Office 814-898-6474
- 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
- Associate Professor of Viticulture
Areas of Expertise
- Wine grape production
- Grapevine physiology
- Sustainable viticulture
- cold temperature stress
- Professor of Pathology, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, and Pharmacology
- 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
- Assistant 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
- 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
- Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Areas of Expertise
- Industrial Ecology
- Ethical Decision Making
- Life Cycle Analysis
- Professor of Food Science
- Undergraduate Program Coordinator
- Assistant Professor of Soils and Environmental Microbiology
- 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
- Associate Teaching Professor, Small Animal Science
- Small and Exotic Animals Club (SEAC) Advisor
- Roar For More: SSD University Park Puppy Raising Club Coordinator/Instructor
Areas of Expertise
- Companion Animal Science
- Animal Behavior
- Animal Welfare and Stress
- Veterinary Medicine
- Online teaching
- Email nad5@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-4197
- Professor of Pedology & 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
- 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
- Assistant Dean for Graduate Education
- Associate Director of the Pennsylvania Agricultural State Experiment Station
- Professor of Vegetable Pathology
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
- Professor of Nutritional Physiology
- C. Lee Rumberger Chair in Agricultural Sciences
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 of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
- Director, Technologies for Agriculture and Living Systems Initiative, College of Agricultural Sciences
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
- Assistant Clinical Professor of Canine Behavioral Welfare
- Canine Extension Specialist
Areas of Expertise
- Animal Behavior
- Animal Welfare
- Canine Cognition
- Email axh6089@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-4611
- 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
- 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 and Department Head, Graduate Program Head
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
- 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
- Interim Department Head and 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
- Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Metabolomics
- Natural Product Chemistry
- Bioinformatics
- Antimicrobial Drug Discovery
- Ethnobotany and Indigenous Knowledge
- Plant-associated Microbiomes
- Botanical Dietary Supplements
- Toxicology
- Email jjk6146@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-2887
- Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology.
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
- Assistant Professor of Avian Biology
- Dorothy Foehr and J. Lloyd Huck Early Career Chair of Avian Transgenic Biology, Huck Institutes of Life Sciences
Areas of Expertise
- Functional Genomics
- Genome Editing
- Avian Genetic Engineering
- Email taekim@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-4084
- 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
- Lester Earl and Veronica Casida Career Development Professor of 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
- Associate 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
- Assistant Professor in Community Development and Resilience
- Interim 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
- Associate Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
- Machinery and Biomass Logistics
- Program contact 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
- Lorenzo L. Langstroth Early Career Professor
- 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
- Assistant 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
- 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
- Program Coordinator, Turfgrass Science Major
- Professor of Soil Science
- Director, Center for Sports Surface Research
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
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
- 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
- Deputy 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 Reproductive Biology
- Walther H. Ott Professor in Avian Biology
- Director of Graduate Studies
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
- Associate Professor of Biological and Chemical Engineering
- Synthetic Biology
Areas of Expertise
- Synthetic Biology
- Metabolic Engineering
- Biophysics
- Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
- Modeling & Optimization
- Email salis@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-1931
- 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
- Assistant 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
- Assistant Professor of 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
- Assistant Research Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Molecular biology
- Plant bacteriology
- Development of novel controls for citrus greening and fire blight
- Genetics of virulence and auxotrophy in Erwinia amylovora
- Email jps6@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-7399
- 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 Community Development and Engagement
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
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
- Associate Professor of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
Areas of Expertise
- Animal models of influenza
- Airborne transmission of influenza viruses
- Evolution of pandemic influenza viruses
- Highly pathogenic avian influenza
- Development of live-attenuated influenza vaccine platforms
- High containment BSL3+ research
- Email tcs38@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-0693
- 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
- Associate Professor of Rural Sociology, Sociology, and Demography
- Director of Graduate Studies in Rural Sociology
- Associate 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
- Adjunct Professor of Fisheries Ecology
- Assistant Unit Leader, U.S. Geological Survey, PA Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
Areas of Expertise
- Fisheries ecology
- Hierarchical modeling
- Macrosystems ecology
- Ecological stressors
- Species of management concern
- Monitoring and assessment
- 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
- Adjunct Associate Professor of Wildlife Ecology
- Assistant Unit Leader,
- PA Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit
Areas of Expertise
- Applied Spatial Ecology
- Disease Epidemiology
- Stable Isotope Ecology
- 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
- Extension-Research Assistant Professor
- Agricultural Risk Management and Agricultural Finance
- Research Professor and Attending Veterinarian for Agricultural Animals and Wildlife
Areas of Expertise
- Principles of Small Animal Health and Disease
- Veterinary Medicine
- Animal Welfare
- Animal Health and Disease and Preventative Medicine
- Regulations Overseeing Animals In Research
- Email jrw140@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-1495
- 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
- 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
