• 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
  • Alan R. Warehime Faculty Chair in Agribusiness
  • Director Entrepreneurship and Innovation
  • College of Agricultural Sciences
  • Associate Teaching Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management

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
  • Professor and Department Head of Plant Science

Areas of Expertise

  • Plant mineral nutrition
  • Micronutrient transport
  • Molecular mechanisms of iron transport
  • 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
  • Professor of Pedology & Graduate Program Chair

Areas of Expertise

  • Soil Science
  • Watershed Management
  • Landscape Ecology
  • Natural Resource Management
  • Professor and Associate Head of Food Science

Areas of Expertise

  • Food chemistry
  • Enology
  • Wine oxidation
  • Hop chemistry
  • Antioxidants
  • Lipid oxidation
  • 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)
  • Associate Professor of Food Science
  • Program Chair, Graduate Certificate Sensory & Consumer Science

Areas of Expertise

  • Sensory & Consumer Science
  • Flavor Chemistry & Flavor Biochemistry
  • Sensometrics
  • Sensory-assisted Breeding
  • Trace Analysis
  • Food Packaging
  • Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Metabolomics
  • Natural Product Chemistry
  • Bioinformatics
  • Antimicrobial Drug Discovery
  • Ethnobotany and Indigenous Knowledge
  • Plant-associated Microbiomes
  • Botanical Dietary Supplements
  • Toxicology
  • Assistant Research Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry
  • Production of Wine, Beer, and Cider
  • Plant Derived Metabolites
  • Research Professor of Plant Biotechnology

Areas of Expertise

  • Plant Biotechnology
  • Plant Functional Genomics
  • Plant Tissue Culture
  • Plant Propagation
  • Plant Disease Resistance
  • Plant – Microbes Interactions
  • Assistant Professor of Biology, Beaver Campus

Areas of Expertise

  • Plant Biology
  • Plant Genetics
  • Native and Medicinal Plants
  • 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
  • John and Patty Warehime Entrepreneur in Residence
  • Assistant Clinical Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Research Commercialization
  • Innovation and Entreprenuership
  • Intellectual Property
  • Organization Development and Change
  • Distinguished Professor of Food Science
  • Director of Graduate Studies

Areas of Expertise

  • Food process engineering
  • Food materials science
  • Biopolymers
  • Chocolate and confectionery

Office for Research and Graduate Education

Address

217 Agricultural Administration Building
University Park, PA 16802-2600

Office for Research and Graduate Education

Address

217 Agricultural Administration Building
University Park, PA 16802-2600