- 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
- Associate Professor of Bacterial Pathogenesis
- Email soeren.abel@psu.edu
- Office 814-867-1227
- Professor of Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics and Demography
- Agribusiness Management Program Coordinator
Areas of Expertise
- Economic and environmental sustainability of agriculture
- Global food and agricultural markets
- Natural resource economics
- Climate change adaptation and mitigation
- Email dga2@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-8630
- Nancy and John Steimer Professor of Agricultural Sciences
- Professor of Forest Ecology and Physiology
Areas of Expertise
- Global change ecology
- Email agl@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-4901
- Coordinator of Undergraduate Advising
- Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences Undergraduate Advisor
- Instructor
Areas of Expertise
- Poultry Nutrition
- Bio-Statistics
- Assistant professor of Entomology/Arthropod ecology
Areas of Expertise
- Insect plant interactions
- Integrated pest management
- Chemical ecology
- Molecular biology
- Associate Professor of Advertising and Public Relations, Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications
- Email laa182@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-8314
- Associate Professor, Bioinfomatics
- Email iua1@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-2281
- Assistant Professor of Entomology
Areas of Expertise
- Entomology & Nematology
- Insect-Plant Interactions
- Behavioral Ecology
- Chemical Ecology
- Multi-trophic Interactions
- Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences
- Email rba6@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-1700
- Professor of Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics
- Co-Director, Center for Economic and Community Development
- Adjunct Research Fellow, Australian Center for Agriculture and Law, University of New England, Human Dimensions of Natural Resources and the Environment Graduate Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Agricultural Economics and Policy
- Development Economics
- Public Sector Economics
- Community and Regional Economics
- Community and Rural Development
- Comparative Rural Policy
- Institutional and Behavioral Economics
- Resource and Environmental Economics
- Public Scholarship and Civic Engagement in Higher Education
- Email talter@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-8640
- Assistant Professor of Entomology
Areas of Expertise
- Social behavior
- Chemical ecology
- Pollinator's health
- Physiology
- Genetics
- Bumble bees
- Professor of Food Science
- Director for Education by Non-Traditional Delivery
Areas of Expertise
- Food engineering and modeling
- Heat and mass transfer during food processing
- Microwaveable food product development
- Chocolate processing
- High pressure processing
- Professor of Horticultural Physiology
- Waller Professor of Biology
Areas of Expertise
- Plant abiotic stress responses
- Guard cell signaling
- Heterotrimeric G protein signaling in rice and Arabidopsis
- RNA structure-function relationships
- Email sma3@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-9579
- Wildlife Veterinarian, PA Game Commission
- Adjunct Associate Professor
- Email aa749@cornell.edu
- Office 607-253-3401
- Assistant Research Professor
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
Areas of Expertise
- Invasion Ecology
- Population Genetics
- Wildlife Ecology
- Evolution
- Conservation Biology
- Animal Coloration
- Island Biology
- Alan R. Warehime Faculty Chair in Agribusiness
- Director Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- College of Agricultural Sciences
- Associate Professor Emeritus of Agricultural and Extension Education
- Email bbc@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-7415
- Distinguished Professor of Entomology and Chemical Ecology
- Director, Center for Chemical Ecology
- Email tcb10@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-4435
- Professor of Entomology
Areas of Expertise
- Soil Entomology and Ecology
- Sustainable and Organic Agriculture
- Insect Pathology
- Women and Gender in Science
- Women and Agriculture
- Assistant Research Professor
- Extension Veterinarian
Areas of Expertise
- Transition cow management
- Dairy cattle reproduction
- Farm personnel training and performance
- Dairy production medicine
- Cow comfort
- Associate Professor of Avian Biology
- Email pab43@psu.edu
- Office 814-867-2365
- Professor of Horticulture
Areas of Expertise
- Informal seed systems in Southeast Asia
- Temperate zone woody plants
- Christmas tree management
- Extension and advisory systems for developing countires
- Email rmb30@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-2198
- Assistant Professor in Family Studies, Child, and Youth Development
Areas of Expertise
- Prevention Science
- Risk and Protective Factors in Childhood and Adolescence
- Evidence-based Programs
- Program Implementation and Evaluation
- Latent Variable Models
- Email blb339@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-7853
- Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Agronomy
Areas of Expertise
- Soil Fertility
- Soil Testing
- Nutrient Management
- Manure Management
- Assistant Professor of Phytobiomes
Areas of Expertise
- High-throughput sequencing
- Crop-associated microbiomes
- Impacts of disturbance on plant-microbe relationships
- Environmental microbiology
- Microbial products
- Assistant Research Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Hemp Production Sciences
- Plant Pathogen Interactions
- Fungal Secretomics
- Plant Proteomics
- Turfgrass Pest Diagnostics
- Email lbengyella@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-0918
- Associate Professor of Horticulture
- Email rdb4@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-2190
- Professor of Mushrooms
Areas of Expertise
- Mushroom cultivation
- Composting
- Mushroom nutrition and physiology
- IPM and Disease Management for Mushroom cultivation
- Mushroom extension services for the North American mushroom industry
- Tree Fruit Research Entomologist
- Research Professor
- Email djb134@psu.edu
- Office 717-677-6116
- Associate Professor of Anthropology
- Email dwb5537@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-1096
- Professor Of Anthropology
- Email rub33@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-2391
- Distinguished Professor of Entomology and Biology
- J. Lloyd & Dorothy Foehr Huck Chair of Epidemiology
- Email onb1@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-2983
- Professor Emeritus, Agricultural and Environmental Economics
- Assistant Research Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
- Affiliate Researcher of Engineering Design in SEDTAPP
Areas of Expertise
- Fabrication of research test equipment in metal, wood & plastic
- Computer aided design and analysis
- Design for additive manufacturing
- Engineering education
- Email rgb@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-2300
- Vernon E. Norris Faculty Fellow of Poultry Nutrition
- Assistant Professor of Poultry Science
Areas of Expertise
- Poultry Nutrition
- Feed Manufacturing
- Pellet Quality
- Email jxb2002@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-8934
- Assistant Teaching Professor in Turfgrass Weed Management
- Email jab267@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-3005
- Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture
- Interim Director, Hamer Center
- Email mub13@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-8136
- Vice Provost for Academic Affairs
- Email bxb1@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-7494
- Professor Emerita, Agricultural and Extension Education
Areas of Expertise
- Personal Financial Education
- Consumer Education
- Professor of Water Resources
- Co-hire, Institutes of Energy & the Environment
- Professor of Rural Sociology
- Director of Graduate Studies
Areas of Expertise
- Energy and Society, specifically Community Impacts of Marcellus Shale Development
- Community Development and Public Engagement
- Water Quality
- Environmental Governance Systems
- Women in Agriculture
- Professor and UNESCO Chair in Community, Leadership, and Youth Development
- Director of Graduate Studies, Agricultural and Extension Education and Applied Youth, Family, and Community Education
Areas of Expertise
- Community
- Community and Leadership Development
- International Development
- Research Methods and Statistics
- Social Change/Social Movements
- Rural Sociology
- Environmental/Natural Resource Sociology
- Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Environmental Economics
- Water Resource Economics
- Nonmarket Valuation
- Behavioral Economics
- Policy Analysis
- Stormwater and Green Infrastructure
- Transportation Economics
- Email dab320@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-7657
- Professor of Wildlife Resources
- Extension Wildlife Specialist
Areas of Expertise
- Avian ecology
- Effects of shale gas development on forests and birds
- forest songbirds
- Human impacts on bird population
- Wildlife habitat management on private lands
- Landscaping for birds and wildlife
- Assistant Teaching Professor
- Program Coordinator, Undergraduate Studies, Veterinary & Biomedical Sciences
- Email jdb56@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-4883
- Professor of Plant Stress Biology
Areas of Expertise
- Root phenomics
- Anatomical traits affecting water and nutrient acquisition
- Genome-wide association studies
- Root hairs
- Email kbe@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-2260
- Associate Professor of Wood Chemistry
Areas of Expertise
- BS in Forestry and Wildlife, Forest Products Utilization Concentration, Minor in Chemistry, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1997.
- Ph.D. in Forest Products, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2004. Recipient of USDA National Needs Fellowship, and participant in the Center for Adhesive and Sealant Science (CASS) program activities, administered in the Chemistry Department. Coursework in wood science and polymer chemistry.
- Associate Professor of Soil Microbiology and Biogeochemistry
Areas of Expertise
- Soil microbiology
- Nitrogen cycle
- Soil quality
- Ecological restoration
- Biogeochemistry
- Adjunct Professor of Agronomy, USDA-ARS
- Assistant Professor of Quantitative Wildlife Ecology
Areas of Expertise
- Bayesian statistics
- Hierarchical modeling
- Applied statistics
- Movement ecology
- Demography
- Terrestrial wildlife ecology
- Department Head, Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology
- Professor of Plant Pathology and Systematic Bacteriology
- Director, Penn State Microbiome Center
Areas of Expertise
- Phytobacteriology
- Translational Taxonomy
- Systematic Bacteriology
- Biological Control
- Sustainable and Organic Agriculture
- Email ctb14@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-7448
- Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Evolutionary Ecology of Legumes and Rhizobia
- Plant-microbe-climate interactions
- Mutualism Evolution
- Bio-inoculants and leguminous cover crops
- Biological Nitrogen Fixation
- Individual-based modeling
- Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS)
- Evolve and Resequence
- Associate Professor of Civil Engineering
- Email wdb3@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-0578
- Associate Teaching Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
- Program Director, Appalachian Botany and Ethnobotany, Shaver's Creek Environmental Center
Areas of Expertise
- Field Botany and Plant Taxonomy, Herbarium Methods
- Non-timber Forest Products (e.g., Maple Syrup, Medicinal/Culinary Plants and Fungi)
- Economic Botany and Ethnobotany
- Plant Husbandry and Horticulture
- Wild Plant Conservation, Management, and Policy
- Invasive Plant Ecology, Ethnobotany, and Management
- Appalachian Forest Plant Biology, Ecology, and Ethnobotany
- Agroforestry, Forest Farming
- Email epb6@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-3951
- Associate Head and Professor of English
- Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Horticultural Crop and Seed Pathology
- Plant & Fungal Reproductive Genetics
- Population Ecology & Reproduction with GIS
- Pedagogy and Online Curriculum Development
- Meat Extension Specialist
- Associate Professor - Animal Science
Areas of Expertise
- Processed Meats
- Food Safety
- Thermal Processing & Smoking
- Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point Systems
- Distinguished Professor of Biology
- Director, Lake Erie Regional Grape Research and Extension Center
Areas of Expertise
- Effects of climate change on dormancy and shoot growth in grapes
- Molecular and bioinformatic tools to investigate the biology of perennial plants with a specific focus on dormancy
- Post-harvest sprouting control in potato
- Email mac17@psu.edu
- Office 814-898-6474
- Distinguished Professor of Molecular Immunology
Areas of Expertise
- Host resistance to infection
- Immune-mediated diseases: multiple sclerosis, and inflammatory bowel disease
- T cells
- Gastrointestinal microbiota; Gnotobiotics
- Vitamins A & D regulation of immune function
- Edible mushrooms
- Selenium
- Department Head, Ecosystem Science and Management
- Professor of Molecular Genetics
- 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 Research Professor
- Program Manager for the Gender Equity through Agriculture Research and Education Initiative
Areas of Expertise
- International Development
- Gender and Development
- Conditional Cash Transfer Programs
- Email pxd171@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-5764
- Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
- Director, Graduate Studies
- Affiliated Faculty of the The Rock Ethics Institute
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.
- Associate Professor of Viticulture
Areas of Expertise
- Wine grape production
- Grapevine physiology
- cover crops
- cold temperature stress
- Professor of Pathology, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, and Pharmacology
- Professor of Rural Sociology, Demography, and Public Health Sciences
- Director, the Computational and Spatial Analysis Core
Areas of Expertise
- Environmental demography
- Spatial demography
- Socio-environmental systems
- Population-infrastructure dynamics
- Computational and spatial analysis
- Email gchi@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-8245
- Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology
- Research Associate, Rock Ethics Institute
Areas of Expertise
- Environmental sociology
- Food and agricultural ethics
- Science, knowledge, and technology
- Culture and consumption
- Social psychology
- Animals and society
- Qualitative research methods
- Email rchiles@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-8626
- Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Areas of Expertise
- Development of emerging bioproducts
- Additive manufacturing with lignocellulosic biomass
- Applications of synthetic chemistry to lignin
- Catalytic transformations of biomass
- Spectroscopic characterization of bio-derived molecules
- Email sc411@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-6815
- 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
- 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
- Email dec109@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-3484
- Associate Teaching Professor, Poultry Science
- 4-H Youth Poultry Program Coordinator
- Undergraduate Adviser
- Penn State Poultry Science Club Adviser
- Penn State Collegiate Poultry Judging Team Coach
Areas of Expertise
- Embryology in the Classroom
- Poultry Judging
- Purebred and Exhibition Poultry
- Incubation
- Small Specialty Poultry Production
- General Poultry Production Management
- Email pclauer@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-8960
- Assistant Professor of Food Science
Areas of Expertise
- Human Gut Microbiome
- Carbohydrate Active Enzymes
- Dietary Fiber
- Resistant Starch
- Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Ecology, Graduate Coordinator
- Email cac13@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-5735
- Associate Research Professor
- Director, Southeast Agricultural Research & Extension Center
Areas of Expertise
- Corn Disease
- Soybean Disease
- Wheat Disease
- Hemp Production
- Field Crops Disease Management
- Email aac18@psu.edu
- Office 717-653-4728
- Professor and Head
Areas of Expertise
- Plant mineral nutrition
- Micronutrient transport
- Molecular mechanisms of iron transport
- Associate Professor of Advertising and Public Relations, Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications
- Email cuc15@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-3073
- Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Areas of Expertise
- Industrial Ecology
- Ethical Decision Making
- Life Cycle Analysis
- Professor of Food Science;
- Undergraduate Program Coordinator
- Assistant Professor of Soils and Environmental Microbiology
- Email efc5279@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-1615
- Assistant Professor of Soilborne Disease Dynamics and Management
Areas of Expertise
- Fungal ecology and evolution
- Soil & plant microbiome response to stress
- Biological management of fungal & oomycete pathogens
- Soil health and disease modeling
- Professor of Geography
- Director, Alliance for Earth Sciences, Engineering, and Development in Africa
- Email rqc3@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-7598
- Professor of Horticulture
- Extension Specialist, Tree Fruit Production
Areas of Expertise
- Deciduous Tree Fruit Production
- Tree Fruit Rootstocks
- Pruning and Training Tree Fruit
- Apple Varieties
- Tree fruit nutrition
- Asian pear varieties
- Impact of climate change on tree fruit production
- Emeritus Professor of Weed Science
Areas of Expertise
- Managing weedy plants in agroecosystems
- Conservation tillage and cover crops
- Herbicide use
- Integrated weed management
- Weed management in organic cropping systems
- Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Extension Education
Areas of Expertise
- Science Literacy
- Teacher Education
- School-based Agricultural Education
- Motivation
- Professor of Food Science
- Assistant Director of Food Safety & Quality Programs
- Food Safety Extension Specialist - Muscle Foods
Areas of Expertise
- Food safety
- Food microbiology
- Foodborne pathogens
- Antimicrobials
- Edible films
- Spoilage
- Meat, poultry, seafood, muscle foods
- HACCP
- Sanitation
- Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Tree Diseases
- Biocontrol
- Email ddd2@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-1689
- Director and Outreach Associate Professor of Health Policy and Administration
- Pennsylvania Office of Rural Health
- Email lad3@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-8214
- Professor
- Director of the Frost Entomological Museum
- Email adeans@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-2863
- Associate Professor of Dairy Cattle Genetics
- Undergraduate Adviser, Dairy, Genetics
- Email cdechow@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-3659
- Program Coordinator, Plant Science Major
- Professor of Horticulture and Plant Ecosystem Health
Areas of Expertise
- Air Pollution Injury on Plants
- Air Quality and Ecosystem Responses
- Environmental Plant Physiology
- Vegetable Crops
- Photomorphogenesis (light regulated plant growth)
- Senior Extension Associate
- Email efz@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-2303
- Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
- Bioprocess and Food Safety Engineering
Areas of Expertise
- Bioprocess Engineering/Fermentation: Bioconversion of agricultural raw and waste commodities into value added products including bioenergy/biofuels, microbial enzymes, organic acids, polysaccharides, antimicrobial agents; optimization; novel bioreactors; downstream processing.
- Food Engineering/Food Safety : inactivation of pathogenic and spoilage microorganisms by using novel non-thermal processing technologies including pulsed UV light, electrolyzed oxidizing water, and ozone.
- Email demirci@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-1098
- Professor of Biology
- Email cwd3@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-6412
- Assistant Professor of Vegetable Crop Science
Areas of Expertise
- Sustainable vegetable production systems
- Plant nutrition, soil fertility and irrigation management
- Alternatives to chemical soil fumigation
- Vegetable response to abiotic stress
- Vegetable quality
- Agrobiodiversity and novel vegetable products
- Agronomic biofortification
- Associate Professor of Reproductive Biology
Areas of Expertise
- Reproductive Biology
- Nutrition and Reproduction
- Ovarian Function
- Oocyte Development
- Email fjd10@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-1499
- Adjunct Professor of Wildlife Ecology
- Leader, PA Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit
Areas of Expertise
- biometrics
- white-tailed deer
- harvest management
- population estimation
- Assistant Professor of Phytobiomes
Areas of Expertise
- Microbial community ecology
- Plant-microbe interaction
- Environmental microbiology
- Soil microbiology
- Ecological resilience and resistance
- Causes and consequences of biodiversity
- Animal Resource Program & IACUC Veterinarian
- Instructor
- Undergraduate Advisor
Areas of Expertise
- Laboratory Animal Medicine
- Email jwd12@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-7813
- Associate Professor Emeritus of Food Science
- Associate Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
- Email fld3@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-6805
- Associate Teaching Professor, Small Animal Science
- Undergraduate Adviser
- Adviser for the Small and Exotic Animals Club (SEAC)
Areas of Expertise
- Companion Animal Science
- Animal Behavior
- Animal Welfare and Stress
- Veterinary Medicine
- Online teaching
- Email nad5@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-4197
- Associate Professor of Pedology
Areas of Expertise
- Soil Science
- Watershed Management
- Landscape Ecology
- Natural Resource Management
- Email pjd7@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-4246
- Associate Professor
- Email ead9@psu.edu
- Office 610-892-1459
- Director of E. coli Reference Center
- Professor of Food Science
Areas of Expertise
- Microbiology
- Microbial pathogens
- Molecular microbiology
- Microbial genomics
- Food Safety
- Food Microbiology
- Professor of Soil Management and Applied Soil Physics
Areas of Expertise
- No-tillage
- Cover crops
- Soil compaction
- Soil health
- Soil erosion
- Soil conservation
- Nitrogen fixation
- Assistant Professor of Hydrology
Areas of Expertise
- Ecohydrology
- Hydrology
- Biogeochemistry
- Terrain Analysis
- Water Quality
- Watershed Management
- Associate Clinical Professor
- Avian Pathologist and Field Investigator
Areas of Expertise
- Emphasis on diagnosis and control of infectious diseases of poultry, waterfowl, gamebirds.
- Board certification in the American College of Poultry Veterinarians.
- Assistant Research Professor in Storage Root Physiology
Areas of Expertise
- Root Crop Physiology
- Abiotic Stress
- Breeding for Environmental Stress Resistance
- Phenotyping and Database Management
- Morphometrics of Flowers and Other Plant Organs
- Email loduque@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-0710
- 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
- 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
- Interim Head and Professor
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 of Food Science
Areas of Expertise
- Food chemistry
- Enology
- Wine oxidation
- Hop chemistry
- Antioxidants
- Lipid oxidation
- Email elias@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-5371
- Professor of Avian Nutritional Biochemistry
- Director of Graduate Studies - Animal Science Program
- Poultry and Avian Science Minor Coordinator
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 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 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 Research Professor
- Associate Director, Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development
- Email jentsminger@psu.edu
- Office 814-867-6050
- Pronouns He/Him
- Assistant Teaching Professor, Agribusiness Management
Areas of Expertise
- consumer markets/behavior
- farm & small firm management
- technology adoption
- marketing strategies & techniques
- Email stanernst@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-7656
- Director, Master of Biotechnology Degree Program
- Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Professor of Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering, Undergraduate Program Chair of Energy and Fuels Engineering Option
- Email sxe2@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-1392
- 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
- Email pde6@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-0680
- Distinguished Professor of Animal Nutrition
- Email tde@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-3665
- Associate Professor of Agricultural and Extension Education
- Undergraduate Program Coordinator
Areas of Expertise
- Teacher Preparation
- Experiential Learning
- Email jce122@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-7463
- Professor of Agricultural Engineering
- Environmental Biophysics, Animal Welfare, and Agricultural Emissions
- Integrated Research and Extension Programs
Areas of Expertise
- Air quality in indoor agriculture (barns, poultry houses)
- Heating and Ventilation system design, principles and practice
- Horse facility engineering (stables, riding arenas)
- Farm animal welfare
- Agricultural air emissions (gas, odor, particulates)
- Assistant Professor of Agricultural Economics
Areas of Expertise
- Food Economics and Policy
- Health Economics
- International Trade
- Email lpf5158@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-5575
- Assistant Teaching Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Areas of Expertise
- Study of sediment transport
- Ecohydrology
- Mathematical modeling
- Email suf474@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-8124
- Assistant Professor
- Beef Extension Specialist
Areas of Expertise
- Beef cattle nutrition
- Beef cattle metabolism
- Beef cattle management
- Feedlot nutrition and management
- Email tfelix@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-0065
- Professor and Department Head of Entomology
- Associate Professor of Fisheries Management
- Associate Director of Academic Programs
- Email cpf3@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-2095
- Professor of Latin American History and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- Email mzf52@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-2278
- Professor of Plant and Soil Sciences,
- (Division of Science, Penn State Berks Campus).
- Courtesy Professor of Turfgrass Science,
- (Dept. Plant Science, Penn State University Park).
- Email maf100@psu.edu
- Office 610-396-6330
- Professor Emeritus of Forest Resources
Areas of Expertise
- Human Dimensions of Natural Resources
- Forest Regeneration
- Sustainable Forest Management
- Email fj4@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-0402
- Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics and Public Policy
- Director, Institute for Sustainable Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Science (SAFES)
- Co-Director, Program on Coupled Human and Earth Systems (PCHES)
Areas of Expertise
- Economy-wide modeling
- Climate change impacts and adaptation
- Integrated assessment
- Professor of Entomology
Areas of Expertise
- Insect population dynamics
- IPM
- Email sjf4@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-7788
- Professor of Plant Genetics
Areas of Expertise
- Plant genetics and breeding
- Molecular breeding
- Biotic stresses
- Abiotic stresses
- Plant nutritional quality
- Tomato
- Email mrf5@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-5408
- Associate Professor
- Agricultural Teacher Educator
Areas of Expertise
- Agricultural Teacher Education
- Teaching and Learning in Agriculture
- Developing Global Competency in Agriculture
- School-based agricultural education
- Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture
- Email kxf15@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-8133
- Assistant Professor of Biology
- Email arf1@psu.edu
- Office 570-675-9346
- Harbaugh Entrepreneur and Innovation Faculty Scholar
- Associate Teaching Professor, Agribusiness
Areas of Expertise
- Entrepreneurship
- Strategy
- AgTech entrepreneurship
- Bio-renewable building product technologies
- Firm-industry analytics
- Email mag199@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-0469
- Assistant Professor of Food Animal Microbiomes
Areas of Expertise
- Microbiome
- Epidemiology
- Food Production Systems
- Antimicrobial Resistance
- Dairy Cattle
- Mastitis
- Animal Health and Productivity
- Email ganda@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-4084
- Professor of Mycology
- Director, Fusarium Research Center
Areas of Expertise
- Fusarium and Aspergillus
- Fungal genetics
- Fungal systematics and evolution
- Fungal plant and animal pathogens
- Email dmg17@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-9773
- Instructor of Biology
- Email bxs18@psu.edu
- Office 717-749-6238
- Professor of Rural Sociology and Science, Technology, and Society
- Email llg13@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-8636
- Professor of Molecular Toxicology and Carcinogenesis
- Associate Chair, Molecular Cellular and Integrative Biosciences Graduate Program
- Email abg11@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-7170
- Professor of Agricultural and Regional Economics
- Director of The Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development
Areas of Expertise
- Food Systems Economics
- Economic Growth and Development
- Regional Economics and Policy
- Email sgoetz@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-4664
- Instructor in Agricultural Science
- Email geg3@psu.edu
- Office 814-949-5506
- Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, Professor of Geography, Faculty-In-Charge Environmental Inquiry Minor
- Email ljg11@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-9511
- Adjunct Associate Professor of Agronomy, USDA-ARS
- Associate Professor of Food Science
- Division of Science, Berks College
- Department of Food Science, University Park
- Email hxg7@psu.edu
- Office 610-396-6121
- Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Email cgrady@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-9434
- Professor of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management
- Chair Human Dimensions of Natural Resources and the Environment
- Email gyu@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-8986
- Adjunct Professor, Department of Entomology, Penn State
- Executive Director, GardenGenetics LLC, Bellefonte PA
- Professor Emeritus
- Professor of Neural and Behavioral Sciences
- Email psg6@psu.edu
- Office 717-531-5772
- Assistant Research Professor
- Watershed Management Extension Specialist
Areas of Expertise
- Watershed Management
- Water Quality
- Nitrogen Cycle
- Biogeochemistry
- Conservation Practices
- Soil-Water Interactions
- Email tag5611@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-7541
- Distinguished Professor of Entomology
- Director, Center for Pollinator Research
Areas of Expertise
- Pollinators
- Honey Bees
- Social Insects
- Genomics
- Immunity
- Behavior
- Physiology
- Professor of Vegetable Pathology
- Director of Graduate Studies
Areas of Expertise
- Integrated vegetable disease management
- Plant pathogen diagnosis
- Disease monitoring and forecasting
- Sustainable crop production
- J. Franklin Styer Professor of Horticultural Botany and Professor of Plant Molecular Biology
Areas of Expertise
- Plant Genomics and Genetics
- Plant Molecular Biology
- Theobroma cacao (cocoa)
- Email mjg9@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-7957
- Professor Emeritus of Forage Management
Areas of Expertise
- Forage Crop Establishment, Management and Utilization
- Perennial Warm-Season Grass Establishment and Management
- Assistant Professor
- Dr. Frances Keesler Graham Early Career Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Genomics
- Human Genetics
- Exposome
- Genetic Interactions (Epistasis)
- Gene-Environment Interactions
- Complex Disease
- Precision Medicine
- Biomedical Informatics
- Metabolomics
- Email mah546@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-0794
- Professor of Immunology
- Immunology and Infectious Disease Undergraduate Advisor
Areas of Expertise
- Regulation of innate immunity, hematopoiesis and cellular transformation by receptor tyrosine kinases.
- Associate Professor of Statistics and Chair of the Undergraduate Program
- Email muh10@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-8126
- Director, Penn State Fruit Research and Extension Center (FREC)
- Professor of Agricultural Economics
Areas of Expertise
- Farm Management
- Risk Management
- Production Economics
- Professor of Food Science
Areas of Expertise
- Dairy Processing
- Food Rheology
- Food Engineering
- Email fmh14@psu.edu
- Office 814-867-5689
- Professor of Nutritional Physiology
Areas of Expertise
- Milk fat synthesis
- Rumen fatty acid metabolism
- Omega-3 fatty acids
- Email kjh182@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-6334
- Assistant Professor of Biology
- Email mih10@psu.edu
- Office 570-963-2529
- Associate Professor
- Email mth7@psu.edu
- Office 724-773-3876
- Professor of Food Science
- Director, Sensory Evaluation Center
Areas of Expertise
- Sensory science
- Human psychophysics
- Taste biology
- Drug delivery systems
- Food choice
- Ingestive behavior
- Consumer acceptability
- Email jeh40@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-7129
- Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Areas of Expertise
- Mechanization and Automation for Specialty Crops
- Robotic Solutions for Agricultural Applications
- Precision Agriculture
- Electro-Hydraulic Control System
- Email luh378@psu.edu
- Office 717-677-6116
- Penn State Volunteer Curator, Pasto Agricultural Museum
- Email dkh2@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-1383
- Undergraduate Advisor
- Laboratory Animal Veterinarian
Areas of Expertise
- Laboratory Animal Medicine and Behavior
- Professor & Department Head of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Areas of Expertise
- Engineering for specialty crop production systems
- Quality evaluation of specialty crops
- Email hzh@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-7792
- Professor of Dairy Science
Areas of Expertise
- Heifer nutrition and management
- Effective fiber for dairy cows
- Email ajh@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-3916
- Professor of Biology
- Email rmh11@psu.edu
- Office 570-385-6063
- Assistant Professor of Arthropod Ecology and Trophic Interactions
- Assistant Professor of Arthropod Ecology and Trophic Interactions
Areas of Expertise
- Predator-Prey Interactions
- Arthropod Ecology
- Behavioral Ecology
- Chemical Ecology
- Biological Control
- Email SLH@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-8321
- Assistant Professor of Animal Science
- Livestock Extension, Swine Specialist
Areas of Expertise
- Swine Production and Management
- Swine Growth and Development
- Swine Reproductive Physiology
- Nutritional Influences on Growth and Development
- Email eah405@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-3267
- Associate Professor of Biology and Entomology
Areas of Expertise
- Systematics & Biodiversity
- Evolutionary Genetics
- Genomics
- Development
- Pollinator Biology
- Hymenoptera
- Bumble bees
- Email hmh19@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-8830
- Professor of Rural Sociology
Areas of Expertise
- food systems
- sustainable agriculture
- agrarian change
- sustainability transitions
- Assistant Professor of Microbial Ecology
- Lloyd Huck Early Career Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Bacteriology
- Phyllosphere Microbiology
- Protein-mediated Bacterial Antagonism
- Molecular Biology
- Program Coordinator, Landscape Contracting Major
- Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Biological filtration
- Natural Swimming Pools
- Sustainable Landscape Design
- Green Infrastructure
- Associate Professor of Dairy Science
- Dairy Extension Team
Areas of Expertise
- Dairy Advisory Teams
- Integrated Dairy Management
- Email lah7@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-3672
- Professor of Entomology
- Center for Chemical Ecology
- Center for Pollinator Research
Areas of Expertise
- Biology and ecology of invasive species
- Insect-microbial symbiosis
- Tritrophic interactions
- Insect virology
- Pollination of forest trees
- Email kxh25@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-6369
- Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education
Areas of Expertise
- Youth leadership development
- Teaching and learning
- Email tsh102@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-7521
- Rasmussen Career Development Professor in Food Science
- Assistant Professor of Food Science
- Program Chair, Graduate Certificate Sensory & Consumer Science
Areas of Expertise
- Sensory Science
- Flavor Chemistry & Flavor Biochemistry
- Sensometrics
- Sensory-assisted Breeding
- Trace Analysis
- Food Packaging
- Email hxh83@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-5572
- Pronouns She/Her
- Instructor of Forestry
- Email cth2@psu.edu
- Office 717-749-6239
- Associate Research Professor
- Extension Veterinarian
Areas of Expertise
- Mastitis and Milk Quality
- Milking Equipment Performance
- Bovine Hoof Health
- Antimicrobial Resistance
- On-farm Food Safety
- Johne's Disease
- Biosecurity and Infectious Disease Management
- Epidemiology
- Distinguished Professor of Dairy Nutrition
Areas of Expertise
- Dairy Nutrition
- Protein Nutrition of Dairy Cows
- Rumen Fermentation
- Nitrogen Utilization
- Methane Mitigation
- Environment
- Professor of Turfgrass Breeding and Genetics
- Email drh15@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-9805
- Associate 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
- Email lah4@psu.edu
- Office 717-677-6116
- Assistant Professor of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management
- Email cah59@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-9773
- Assistant Dean of Multicultural Affairs
- Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Cultural Competence
- Email pdi1@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-7439
- Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Aerobiology
- Food security
- Integrated Pest Management
- Email sai10@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-6290
- Distinguished Professor of Anthropology
- Email ngj2@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-2509
- Director of the Animal Resource Program
- Research Professor - Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
- Professor of Forest Resources
Areas of Expertise
- Water Energy Food Nexus
- Bioenergy
- Agroforestry
- Forest Economics and Finance
- International Forestry
- Forest Extension
- Non Timber Forest Products
- Email mgj2@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-3994
- Professor of Agricultural Economics
Areas of Expertise
- Economic modeling of food purchase behavior
- Link between food behavior and health
- Retail food product offerings and prices
- Organic food and agriculture
- Instructor in Agronomy
- Email brj8@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-7118
- Professor Emeritus
Areas of Expertise
- Wood products processing and manufacturing
- Wood composite material systems
- Wood structural applications
- Wood composite performance characteristics and related material evaluation methodologies
- Director, Animal Diagnostic Laboratory
- Professor, Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
- Coordinator, One Health Minor
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
- 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
- Assistant Teaching Professor of Soil Science
Areas of Expertise
- Soil Morphology
- Soil Taxonomy
- Soil Mapping
- Soil Genesis
- Pedology
- Biogeochemistry
- Potting Media
- Professor and Associate Head, Department of Plant Science
- Director, Golf Course Turfgrass Management Program
Areas of Expertise
- Turfgrass Science
- Turfgrass Management
- Agronomy
- Golf Course Management
- Turfgrass Pathology
- Weed 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
- Professor, Intergenerational Programs and Aging
Areas of Expertise
- Developing & evaluating intergenerational initiatives in diverse settings.
- Training Extension educators and other professionals in intergenerational programming.
- Establishing intergenerational strategies for civic engagement and environmental design.
- Email msk15@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-7871
- Professor of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
- Huck Distinguished Chair in Global Health
- Associate Director, Huck Institutes of Life Sciences
- Adjunct Professor, Nelson Mandela African Institute of Science and Technology (Arusha, Tanzania)
Areas of Expertise
- Microbial pathogenomics and molecular epidemiology.
- Email vkapur@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-9788
- Associate Professor of Crop Production / Ecology
Areas of Expertise
- Agroecology
- Conservation & Dairy Cropping Systems
- Soil & nutrient conservation, perennials, cover crops
- Pasture ecology and grazing management
- Email hdk3@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-3179
- Distinguished Professor of Soil Biogeochemistry
- Chair of Ecology Intercollege Graduate Degree Program
Areas of Expertise
- Ecosystem ecology
- Nitrogen cycle
- Carbon cycle
- Forest ecosystems
- Sustainable agriculture
- Email jpk12@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-1614
- Associate Professor of Forest Ecology
Areas of Expertise
- Global change ecology
- Forest ecology
- Dendrochronology
- Community ecology
- Associate Research Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Dairy Food Processing & Quality
- Dairy Food Safety
- Sensory Analysis of Dairy Products
- Artisanal Cheese
- Value-Added Dairy Products
- Assistant Research Professor of Wildlife Behavioral Ecology
Areas of Expertise
- Animal behavior/ behavioral ecology
- Animal cognition
- Evolution
- Neurogenomics
- Computer Programming
- Assistant Professor, Department of Health and Nutritional Sciences and Food Science
Areas of Expertise
- Leveraging the food industry to improve child nutrition
- Improving the palatability of foods targeted at children
- Email klk37@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-2915
- Associate Professor of Geosciences
- Email kzk10@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-6718
- Professor of Horticultural Marketing and Business Management
- Affiliate Appointment: Agribusiness Management, Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education
Areas of Expertise
- Alcoholic beverage trends
- Wine consumer attitudes and behaviors
- Produce and ethnic food marketing
- Retail layout and design
- Promotional strategies
- Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Metabolomics
- Natural Product Chemistry
- Bioinformatics
- Antimicrobial Drug Discovery
- Ethnobotany and Indigenous Knowledge
- Plant-associated Microbiomes
- Botanical Dietary Supplements
- Toxicology
- Email jjk6146@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-2887
- Associate Head, Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education
- Professor of Agricultural Economics
- Community, Environment, and Development Program Coordinator
- Co-Director, Center for Economic & Community Development
- 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
- Assistant Professor of Avian Biology
- Dorothy Foehr and J. Lloyd Huck Early Career Chair, Huck Institutes of Life Sciences
Areas of Expertise
- Functional Genomics
- Genome Editing
- Avian Genetic Engineering
- Email taekim@psu.edu
- Office 814-867-3203
- Associate Professor of Geography
- Email bhk2@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-2612
- Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Immunologic mechanisms of Bordetella
- Pathogenesis of Francisella tularensis
- Host-pathogen interactions
- Development of BSL-3 research programs
- Adjunct Professor of Food Science
- Adjunct Associate Professor of Soil Science, USDA-ARS
- Professor Emeritus of Food Science
- Assistant Professor of Animal Science
- Undergraduate Adviser, Beef Cattle
- Block and Bridle Club Adviser
- Collegiate Cattlewomen Adviser
- Email dkniffen@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-7809
- 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 Landscape Architecture
- Email npk1@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-8134
- Associate Professor of Physiology
- Email dhk102@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-5679
- Lester Earl and Veronica Casida Career Development Professor of Food Safety
- Assistant 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
- 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
- Assistant Research Professor
- Fire and Natural Resources Management
Areas of Expertise
- Fire Ecology
- Fire Behavior and Effects
- Assistant Professor of Forest Resource Management
Areas of Expertise
- Social and economic values associated with private forests, including wildlife, carbon sequestration and water resources