AGROECOLOGY - Key Persons


Aaron Matthew Cook

Job Titles:
  • Research Project Manager

Abbe Hamilton

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Abbie E. Spackman

Job Titles:
  • Project Assistant

Abby Hopkins Floyd

Job Titles:
  • Director of Major Gifts

Adam Brandt

Job Titles:
  • Laboratory Assistant

Adana Smith

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant

Adrian A. Barragan

Job Titles:
  • Associate Research Professor

Adrianna Cohen

Job Titles:
  • Potato Research Technologist, Qu Lab

Alan Cook

Job Titles:
  • Farm Machinery Operator / Mechanic

Albert Dreibelbis

Job Titles:
  • Poultry Research Technician

Albert Nakpil

Job Titles:
  • Database Specialist

Alexandra McLaughlin

Job Titles:
  • Penn State Extension Writer ( Marketing Communications Specialist )

Allison Causey

Job Titles:
  • Serology Technician

Alyssa Bakke

Job Titles:
  • Instructor

Alyssa Conrad

Job Titles:
  • Financial Specialist

Alyssa Gurklis

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Assistant for the Center for Economic and Community Development

Amanda L. Basalla-Hepfer

Job Titles:
  • Assistant to the Department Head

Amanda Scott

Job Titles:
  • Financial Assistant

Amelia Romo

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Amy Bubb


Amy Duke

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director of Communications

Amy Long

Job Titles:
  • Research Administrator Post - Award

Andrea Kocher

Job Titles:
  • Instructor of Equine Science and Equine Extension Specialist

Andrea McCool

Job Titles:
  • Art Director

Andrea Rice

Job Titles:
  • Marketing Strategy Specialist

Andrea Selivan

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant, Office of Access and Equity

Andrew Dutrow

Job Titles:
  • Barn Utility Worker ( Dairy Complex )

Andrew Slavinsky

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Andrew Wyne

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Assistant

Angela Clark

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Manager

Angie Auman

Job Titles:
  • Research Administrator

Ann R Tickamyer

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emerita of Rural Sociology and Demography

Ann Rishel

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
  • Supervisor

Ann Stone

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Assistant

Annalisa Ariatti

Job Titles:
  • Research Support Staff

Annaylse Kehs - COO

Job Titles:
  • Operations Director

Arabella (Bell) Confer

Job Titles:
  • Financial Assistant

Armon Zolghadr

Job Titles:
  • IT Support Specialist

Ashley Marie Rivera Morales

Job Titles:
  • Virology Research Technologist

Ashley McMullen

Job Titles:
  • Event Management Specialist

Ashley Snyder

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant

Ashley Struble

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Assistant

Ashley Tice

Job Titles:
  • Financial Associate

Audrey Gay Rodgers

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee

Austin Brown

Job Titles:
  • Extension Program Specialist in Small Ruminant Production & Management

Austin Kirt

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

B.S. Student

Job Titles:
  • Student

Barb Sellers

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Assistant

Ben Kunkel


Benjamin Kline

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Swine Center Unit Manager

Benjamin Maus

Job Titles:
  • GIS Specialist

Beth K. Gugino

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Dean for Graduate Education / Associate Director of the Pennsylvania Agricultural State Experiment Station / Professor of Vegetable Pathology
  • Assistant Dean for Graduate Education and Associate Director of the Pennsylvania State Experiment Station

Beth Tepsic

Job Titles:
  • Manager of Departmental Operations

BethAnn Hassinger

Job Titles:
  • Program Assistant

Bethany Mathie

Job Titles:
  • Program Manager

Betsy Lohr

Job Titles:
  • Education Program Coordinator

Betty Jo Houser

Job Titles:
  • Proposal and Awards Generalist

Bhuvana Katkere

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Teaching Professor

Bill Kurtz


Bill Weaver

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Blair Siegfried

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education Director of the Pennsylvania Agricultural Experiment Station

Bob Conn

Job Titles:
  • Systems Administrator

Bob Rosenberry


Bobbi Jo Scovern

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Assistant

Braden Lee

Job Titles:
  • Graphic Design Specialist Intermediate Professional - Full Tim

Brandon Woelkers

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director of CRM Strategy and Operations

Brenda Wert

Job Titles:
  • Financial Assistant

Brent Alan Harding

Job Titles:
  • Director of Forestlands Management Offic

Brian Adair


Brian Macafee

Job Titles:
  • Agricultural Operations Specialist

Brian Redder

Job Titles:
  • Student, Soil Scienc

Brian Ringo

Job Titles:
  • Part - Time Marketing / Communications Specialist

Brittany Dodson

Job Titles:
  • Editor

Brooke Morder

Job Titles:
  • Management Specialist

Brosi Bradley

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Bryan Hed

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Bryan M. Welker

Job Titles:
  • Barn Worker, Milker

Caleb Wright

Job Titles:
  • Director

Cameron Cedeno

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Cara Beck

Job Titles:
  • Part - Time Customer Service Representative

Carl Schlagnhaufer

Job Titles:
  • Lab Research Technician

Carla Snyder

Job Titles:
  • Associate State Program Leader, Energy, Business and Community Vitality

Carrie Khouzani

Job Titles:
  • Technology Specialist

Carrington J. Stephenson

Job Titles:
  • Research Technician, Avian Virology

Carston Myers


Cassidy Bumbaugh

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Catherine Nettles Cutter

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Food Science

Chad Dreibelbis


Chad Moore

Job Titles:
  • Biological Technician

Charlene Paquette

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Student Services Coordinator / Academic Adviser

Charlie Hullihen

Job Titles:
  • Marketing Automation Manager

Cheryl Kazemi

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant

Cheryl Miller


Chris Houser

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director for Programs

Chris Sanchez

Job Titles:
  • Agricultural Operations Specialist

Christina Voortman

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Christine Doster

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Assistant

Christopher Coyne

Job Titles:
  • Instructional Designer

Christopher J. Grant

Job Titles:
  • Equine Farm Technician

Christopher Sigler

Job Titles:
  • Associate Teaching Professor of Food Scienc

Christy Shaw

Job Titles:
  • Director, Office of Grants and Contracts

Chrystal A Wheeler

Job Titles:
  • Academic Adviser

Chuck Gill

Job Titles:
  • News Editor
  • Senior Public Relations Specialist

Cindee Feagley


Claudia Johnstonbaugh

Job Titles:
  • Proposal and Award Generalist - Entomology

Claudio Frumento

Job Titles:
  • IT Consultant

Cody Depew

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Cole Connolly

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Student

Coleen M. Jones

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Colleen Heckard

Job Titles:
  • Team Marketing Coordinator

Colleen Mangold

Job Titles:
  • Editor

Connor Hoffman

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist - Plant Sciences

Corey Dillon

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Agronomy Farm

Cory Chelko

Job Titles:
  • Director

Courtney Beitz

Job Titles:
  • Team Marketing Coordinator

Craig Story

Job Titles:
  • Database Specialist 3

Crystal Henry

Job Titles:
  • Marketing Strategy Specialist

Crystal Switalski

Job Titles:
  • Human Resources Consultant

Dan Eichenlaub

Job Titles:
  • Member of the College Strategic Planning Committee
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Vice President, Eichenlaub, LLC

Dana Graupensperger

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant

Dana Grove

Job Titles:
  • Proposal and Awards Generalist

Danelle Silva

Job Titles:
  • Customer Service Representative

Daniel D. Foster

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Daniela Carrijo

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist, Grain Crop Production

Danielle Clark

Job Titles:
  • Instructional Designer

Dante Pighetti

Job Titles:
  • Barn Utility Worker, Penn State Dairy Barns

Darlene K. Ishler

Job Titles:
  • Event Registration System & Operations Manager

Darren Clapper

Job Titles:
  • Systems Administrator

Dave Sandor

Job Titles:
  • Instructional Designer

Dave Smith

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Member of the Nominating Committee

David Abler

Job Titles:
  • 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

David Muñoz

Job Titles:
  • Research and Equity Specialist

Dayton Spackman

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Deah Lieurance

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Invasive Species Biology and Management

Deanna M. Behring

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Dean and Director for Ag Sciences Global

Deborah Heeman

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Assistant

Debra Ellis

Job Titles:
  • Program Manager, Ag Progress Days

Denise Coslo

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Denise Rylance

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Assistant

Denver Greenawalt

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Derek Shaffer

Job Titles:
  • Team Lead - Consulting

Diane Lehr

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Diane Yoder

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Coordinator and Office Manager

Dianne Petrunak

Job Titles:
  • Adviser

Dilhani Nisansala Jayawardhana

Job Titles:
  • Research Technician

Don C. Wagner

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director of Pre - Award
  • Deer Unit Manager

Don Smith

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Ed Zuech

Job Titles:
  • Director, Information Technologies

Edward Kaiser

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Elizabeth "Liz" Barnes

Job Titles:
  • Part Time Administrative Assistant - Animal Diagnostic Laboratory

Elizabeth Deecher

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist - Life Sciences

Elizabeth Egan

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant

Elizabeth Fulton

Job Titles:
  • Agricultural Outreach Specialist, Project Coordinator

Elizabeth Ransom

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of International Affairs

Elizabeth Timblin

Job Titles:
  • Research Administrator

Elle Andreen

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Research Assistant

Ellen Fisher

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Assistant

Emerald Welteroth

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager

Emily Grandinette

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Emily Jozefik

Job Titles:
  • Research Administrator

Emily Morrison

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Coordinator

Emily Pakhtigian

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Public Policy

Emily Reid

Job Titles:
  • Team Marketing Coordinator

Emily Slimak

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Manager

Eric Anderson

Job Titles:
  • Orchard Worker and Mechanical Operations

Eric Rosenbaum

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee

Erica Johnson

Job Titles:
  • Proposal and Award Generalist

Erika Stover

Job Titles:
  • Proposal and Award Generalist

Erikka Runkle

Job Titles:
  • Strategic Partner
  • Strategic Partner, Human Resources

Erin E. Connolly

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Department Head, Ag Economics, Sociology, and Education

Erin Mickney

Job Titles:
  • Financial Assistant

Erin Nelson

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Erin Shawley

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Assistant

Ethan Hull

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Eugene Wingert

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Legislative Committee
  • Member of the Nominating Committee

Evelyn Mayhew

Job Titles:
  • Financial Assistant

Farmer Liaison


Felipe Montes

Job Titles:
  • Associate Research Professor

Forest Stewardship

Job Titles:
  • Forest Stewardship Program Coordinator, Center for Private Forests at Penn Stat

Francine McCullough

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Frank Doyle

Job Titles:
  • Android Engineer

Frank Jost

Job Titles:
  • Research Administrator

Gary W. Felton

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Department Head, Entomology

George Dills

Job Titles:
  • Farm Machinery Operator / Mechanic

Geremy Kephart

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant

Glenn L. Myers

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Penn State Meats Lab

Grace Gutierrez

Job Titles:
  • Part - Time Research Assistant / Associate

Grant Hoffer

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist - Plant Sciences

Greg Kirkham

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Secretary / Treasurer, Westfield Insurance

Greg Raymond

Job Titles:
  • Multimedia Specialist

Gregg Robertson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the College Strategic Planning Committee
  • Member of the Legislative Committee
  • Member of the Program Committee
Nominating Committee of current Board members to prepare a slate of candidates for positions as Officers, to be elected by the Board of Directors. Committee will be expanded to include a non-board member to prepare a slate of candidates for positions on the Board of Directors to be elected by the Council membership in October.

Gretta Tritch Roman

Job Titles:
  • Director of Research Development and Initiatives
Areas of Expertise Provide strategic leadership and consultation for the development and sustainability of interdisciplinary teams

Haessly Nachman

Job Titles:
  • Pre - Award Research Administrator

Hailey Guerriero

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director of Finance and Business Operations

Hanh Tran

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Hannah Rock

Job Titles:
  • Event Management Specialist

Hassan Gourama

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Food Science

Heather Engler

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Heather Nowlin

Job Titles:
  • Financial Associate

Hillary Clark

Job Titles:
  • Marketing Strategy Specialist

Ikenna Okafor


Isabella Petitta


Jacki Sterner Weikert

Job Titles:
  • IT Consultant

Jackie Gibboney

Job Titles:
  • Academic Adviser

Jackie Huntington

Job Titles:
  • Research Administrative Support Assistant

Jacob Kardelis

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Jaime Garcia Prudencio

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Teaching Professor, Spanish for Agricultural Program

James Bollinger

Job Titles:
  • Senior Agronomy Technician

James Brown

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Sales & Marketing

Jamie Comly

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Assistant for the Office for Research and Graduate Education
Areas of Expertise Financial and Budgetary support

Jamie Hockenberry

Job Titles:
  • Proposal and Award Generalist

Jamie Klaue

Job Titles:
  • Office Manager

Jan McClintock

Job Titles:
  • Part - Time Multimedia Specialist, Web Content Editor

Jane Gardner

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Coordinator

Janelle Larson

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics

Janice McMahon

Job Titles:
  • Building Coordinator

Jared Shelly

Job Titles:
  • Field Technician ( Orchard Worker and Machine Operator )

Jason Houck


Jason Issenhood

Job Titles:
  • Worker

Jeff Jodon

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Jeff Mulhollem

Job Titles:
  • Public Relations Specialist / Science Writer

Jeff Zook


Jeffery Bucha

Job Titles:
  • Creamery Stock Assistant

Jeffrey Hyde

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean and Director of Penn State Extension

Jenn Barnhart

Job Titles:
  • Development Assistant

Jenna Neff

Job Titles:
  • Pre - Award Research Administrator

Jennah Meek

Job Titles:
  • Spotted Lanternfly Call Center Team Lead

Jenneth R. Layaou

Job Titles:
  • Director of Campus Enrollment and Retention
  • Director of Campus Enrollment and Retention / Director, Pennsylvania School for Excellence in the Agricultural Sciences

Jennie Conklin

Job Titles:
  • Customer Service Lead

Jennie Diehl Mazzone

Job Titles:
  • Master Gardener Coordinator, Franklin County

Jennifer Bair

Job Titles:
  • Art Director

Jennifer McLaughlin

Job Titles:
  • Coordinator for Financial and Administrative Operations

Jennifer Monroe

Job Titles:
  • Extension Administrative Support Assistant

Jennifer Plank

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Coordinator

Jennifer Reed-Harry

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Member of the Program Committee

Jennifer Sanson

Job Titles:
  • Pre - Award Research Administrator

Jennifer Weld

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Research Professor

Jennifer Zdaniewski

Job Titles:
  • Research Administrator

Jenny Storch


Jenny Walker

Job Titles:
  • Graphic Designer

Jeremy Maggio

Job Titles:
  • Student

Jesse Bussard

Job Titles:
  • Team Marketing Coordinator

Jesse Darlington

Job Titles:
  • College Facilities Coordinator

Jesse Freyer

Job Titles:
  • Barn Worker, Milker

Jessica Betts

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Jessica Clippinger

Job Titles:
  • Part - Time Research Assistant / Associate

Jessica Kara

Job Titles:
  • Quality Assurance Manager

Jessica Michaels

Job Titles:
  • Financial Assistant

Jessie Edson

Job Titles:
  • Genetics Laboratory Manager

Jill Paige

Job Titles:
  • IT Consultant

Jill Selfe

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Manager

Jim Shirk

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Legislative Committee

Jim Valent

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee

Joanne Loose

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Assistant

Joe Marino

Job Titles:
  • E - Commerce Web Specialist

Joel Rotz

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Legislative Committee
  • Farmer Liaison

John Hamman

Job Titles:
  • Creamery Stock Assistant - Grade 9

John Summerson

Job Titles:
  • Multimedia Specialist

John T Spargo

Job Titles:
  • Associate Research Professor

Jolene Smeltzer

Job Titles:
  • Pre - Award Research Administrator

Jon Emigh

Job Titles:
  • Director of Marketing and Digital Education

Jonathan Seaman

Job Titles:
  • Program Manager

Jonathan Ziegler

Job Titles:
  • Art Director

Jordan Kobularcik


Joshua Gery

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Joshua Sayko

Job Titles:
  • Special Relief Utility Operator

Joshua Weist

Job Titles:
  • IT Support Specialist

Joslyn Neiderer

Job Titles:
  • Team Marketing Coordinator

Judi Glaze

Job Titles:
  • Instructional Designer

Julia Gest

Job Titles:
  • Early Learning Specialist

Julie Bowie

Job Titles:
  • Retail Store Manager

Julie Stringfellow

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Assistant, Community and Economic Development Graduate Program

Justin Clapper

Job Titles:
  • Director

K. Sandeep Prabhu

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Interim Department Head, Ecosystem Science and Management

Kacee Burke

Job Titles:
  • Academic Program Coordinator ( Graduate Programs )

Kadie Bower

Job Titles:
  • Accountant

Kaile Jump

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist 2 - Kalantari Lab

Kaiyi Chan

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Assistant for the Office of Research and Graduate Education
Areas of Expertise Research Development & Initiatives Support

Kaleb Wolfe

Job Titles:
  • Research Technician

Kandice Harris

Job Titles:
  • Instructional Designer Assistant

Karah Cramer

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Karen Brown


Karen Miller

Job Titles:
  • Customer Service Representative

Karen Mullen

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant and Graduate Program Coordinator

Kasey Baker

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Kasey Snell

Job Titles:
  • Ag Safety Assistant

Kate Anton

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Kate Oyler

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director of Web Strategy and Operations

Katherine Shumac

Job Titles:
  • Research Support Technologist III

Katherine Y. Zipp

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics
Areas of Expertise Environmental and resource economics

Kathleen Arrington

Job Titles:
  • Business Systems Analyst

Kathryn Bartling

Job Titles:
  • Watershed Project Coordinator

Kathryn J. Brasier

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Rural Sociology

Kathryn J. Williams

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Kathy Kelley

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Horticultural Marketing and Business Management

Kathy Pletcher

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant
  • Administrative Assistant / Student Records

Kathy Wholaver

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Katie Bohn

Job Titles:
  • Science and News Writer

Katina Moten

Job Titles:
  • DUS Programs Coordinator

Kayla Sgobba

Job Titles:
  • Academic Program Coordinator

Kellen Takoch

Job Titles:
  • Pre - Award Research Administrator

Kelli Gardner

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director of Stewardship

Kelly Drum

Job Titles:
  • Financial Assistant

Kelly Hilsey

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director of Creative Services

Kelly Praskovich

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director of Alumni Relations

Kelly Reese

Job Titles:
  • User Experience Specialist

Ken Fultz


Ken Martin

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee

Kenneth Davis

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Atmospheric and Climate Science

Kenneth Snyder

Job Titles:
  • Barn Worker - Milker, Penn State Dairy Barns

Keri Griffin

Job Titles:
  • Lead Multimedia Specialist

Kerry E. Kaylegian

Job Titles:
  • Associate Research Professor Emeritus of Food Science
Areas of Expertise Dairy Food Processing & Quality

Ketja Lingenfelter

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director

Kevin Cook


Kim Boonie

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Assistant for the Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development

Kim Bower-Spence

Job Titles:
  • Copywriter

Kimberly Hall

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Program Coordinator

Kristen Devlin

Job Titles:
  • Communications Specialist, NERCRD

Kristen Greskovic

Job Titles:
  • Academic Program Coordinator

Kristen Koch

Job Titles:
  • Program Manager

Kristin Price

Job Titles:
  • Facilities Administrative Assistant

Kristy Loper

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant

Kurt Fuchs

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Member of the Legislative Committee

Kurtis Davidson

Job Titles:
  • Poultry Research Technician

Kylie Green

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Laura Burghard

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Coordinator

Laura Kirt

Job Titles:
  • Marketing / Communications Specialist

Laura L Sproat

Job Titles:
  • IT Support Specialist

Laura Laiton Jimenez

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Laura Mellott

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant - Entomology

Laura P. Leites

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Dean for Access and Equity
  • Assistant Dean for Access and Equity / Research Professor of Quantitative Forest Ecology

Laura Porturas

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Curator

Lauren Hassinger

Job Titles:
  • Marketing Strategy Specialist

Lauren Steinberg

Job Titles:
  • Senior Director of Development
  • Senior Director, Development

Lauren Turner

Job Titles:
  • Laboratory Analyst

Lauri Enterline

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Students Advisor

Laurie Jones

Job Titles:
  • Editor

Leanne Crosson

Job Titles:
  • Financial Assistant

Leidy Fernandez Montiel

Job Titles:
  • Part - Time Research Assistant / Associate

Leif Jensen

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Professor of Rural Sociology and Demography

Leland Glenna

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Rural Sociology and Science, Technology, and Society

Lena Sheaffer

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Research Professor

Lesley Heller-Guenther

Job Titles:
  • Financial Assistant

Lesley Maalouf

Job Titles:
  • Financial Officer

Leslie A. Martin

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Assistant

Leslie Pillen

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director, Farm and Food Systems

Lester Earl

Job Titles:
  • Lester Earl and Veronica Casida Career Development Professor of Food Safety / Associate Professor of Food Science

Linda Nobrega

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant

Linda Weaver

Job Titles:
  • Financial Associate

Lindsay Jimeson

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant

Lindsey Orchard

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Linsie Adams

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant

Lisa A. Holden

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Interim Department Head, Animal Science

Lisa Kassab

Job Titles:
  • Human Resources Consultant

Lisa Sharkey

Job Titles:
  • Part - Time Accountant

Lissa Neese

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Assistant, Graduate Program

Logan Haugh

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Logan Pearce

Job Titles:
  • Research Administrator

Lola Hubler

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Lori Barger

Job Titles:
  • Lead Instructional Designer

Lori Clayton

Job Titles:
  • Instructional Designer Assistant

Lori Connelly

Job Titles:
  • Director of Experiential Learning and Career Services

Lori Shingler

Job Titles:
  • Wage Staff, CSIS

Lori Smith

Job Titles:
  • Executive Assistant to the Dean

Lori Stasko

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Coordinator

Lott Miller

Job Titles:
  • Entomology Research Technician

Lucas Stover

Job Titles:
  • Farm Machinery Operator / Mechanic

Luke May

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Lydia Hardie

Job Titles:
  • Research Geneticist

László J. Kulcsár

Job Titles:
  • Dean
  • Senior Associate
  • Senior Associate Dean, College of Agricultural Sciences

M.S. Student

Job Titles:
  • Student

Madison Heilveil

Job Titles:
  • Adviser

Maggie Frederick

Job Titles:
  • Research Project Manager

Maggie Kisick

Job Titles:
  • Human Resources Consultant

Marc E. McDill

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Forest Management

Marc Lewis

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • President, PA Forestry Association

Marcela Martinez

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Margaret Weber

Job Titles:
  • Academic Program Coordinator

Mari Royer

Job Titles:
  • Department Head Assistant

Maria Landschoot

Job Titles:
  • Team Marketing Coordinator

Maria R. Long

Job Titles:
  • Research Support Technician

Maria Spencer

Job Titles:
  • John and Patty Warehime Entrepreneur in Residenc

Marianne Stevens


Marjorie Nye

Job Titles:
  • Lead Instructional Designer

Mark R. Kreidler

Job Titles:
  • Swine Center Unit Manager

Mark Wach

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Immediate past President, American Mushroom Institute

Mark Walters


Marlene Stauffer

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Member of the Program Committee

Martin Bucknavage

Job Titles:
  • Senior Food Safety Extension Associate
  • Senior Food Safety Extension Associate and Team Lead, Industrial Food Safety and Quality

Mary "Dani" Thomas

Job Titles:
  • Financial Associate

Mary B. Shoffner

Job Titles:
  • Instructional Designer

Mary Barbercheck

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Entomology

Mary Beth Day

Job Titles:
  • Financial Associate

Mary Jo Schillings

Job Titles:
  • Department Head Assistant

Mary Seaton

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director, College Relations Offic
  • Assistant Director, College Relations Office

Mary Wirth

Job Titles:
  • Director, College Relations and Communications

Mary Wodecki

Job Titles:
  • Editor
  • Web Developer

María del Mar Jiménez Gasco

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Department Head, Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Matt Ehrhart

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Legislative Committee

Matt Stumpf

Job Titles:
  • Director of Academic Advising in the College of Agricultural Sciences

Matthew Fultz

Job Titles:
  • IT Consultant

Mattie Dutrow

Job Titles:
  • Conference Planner

Mauricio Rosales


Max Radicchi

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Megan Clitherow

Job Titles:
  • Marketing Strategy Specialist

Megan Copeland

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant Serology Lab

Megan Homan

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director of Marketing Strategy

Megan Marshall

Job Titles:
  • Director of Student Recruitment and Activities

Megan Mershon

Job Titles:
  • Laboratory Coordinator

Melanie Miller Foster

Job Titles:
  • 106 Agricultural Administration Building
  • Associate Teaching Professor of International Agriculture

Melanie Perryman

Job Titles:
  • Research Tech

Melanie Schupp

Job Titles:
  • Plant Sciences Research Technician

Melinda Conrad

Job Titles:
  • Part - Time Customer Service Representative

Melissa Ishler

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Melissa M. Kreye

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Forest Resources Management
Areas of Expertise Social and economic values associated with private forests, including prescribed fire, wildlife, and carbon sequestration.

Melissa McCloskey

Job Titles:
  • Financial Coordinator

Melissa Strouse


Melissa Tomascik


Michael Hill

Job Titles:
  • Illustrator, Grozinger Lab

Michael Houtz

Job Titles:
  • Multimedia Specialist

Michael L. Hile

Job Titles:
  • Program Coordinator and Adviser for the ERM Program

Michael Mayernick

Job Titles:
  • Instructional Production Specialist

Michael Powell


Michael Quickel

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student - Pathobiology

Michael Toolan

Job Titles:
  • Student, Forest Resources

Michael Tribone

Job Titles:
  • Design Specialist

Michele Lauriha

Job Titles:
  • Graphic Designer

Michele Mansfield

Job Titles:
  • Research Support

Michele Yon

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Michelle Barnyak

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Assistant for the Department 's M.S. and Ph.D Degree Program

Michelle Peiffer

Job Titles:
  • Research Support Assistant

Mike Hoffman

Job Titles:
  • Director of Facilities and Safety

Mike Parisi

Job Titles:
  • Building Coordinator

Milton G. Newberry, III

Job Titles:
  • Director of Student Advocacy and Access Programs

Milton Loyer

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Research Assistant

Mindy Fisher

Job Titles:
  • Research Project Manager

Mindy Moore

Job Titles:
  • Human Resource Consultant

Mischelle B. Forgy

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Coordinator in the Center for Professional Personnel Development
  • Assistant to the Department Head

Mitch Colpetzer

Job Titles:
  • Special Relief Utility Operator

Mitchell Stephens

Job Titles:
  • Manager of Haller Farm

Molly Martin

Job Titles:
  • Academic Program Coordinator ( Undergraduate Programs )

Morgan Brumbaugh

Job Titles:
  • Beef and Sheep Assistant Manager

Myrannda Kleckner

Job Titles:
  • Social Media Manager

Nadine S. Houck

Job Titles:
  • Co - Manager, Penn State Dairy Barns

Naomi Knaub

Job Titles:
  • Conference Planner

Naomi Minarchick


Nate McCartney

Job Titles:
  • Research Technician II

Nate Webb

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Nathan Reigner

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Research Professor

Nazmiye Celik

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Nhat Ngo

Job Titles:
  • IT Support Specialist

Nicholas Gabel

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Nick Grove


Nicole Bohn

Job Titles:
  • Cost Share Accountant

Nicole Day

Job Titles:
  • Multimedia Specialist

Nicole Houck

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Program Coordinator

Nina Falcone

Job Titles:
  • Student

Noel Habashy

Job Titles:
  • Associate Teaching Professor
  • Associate Teaching Professor / Coordinator, International Agriculture Minor

Olivia Black

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Olivia Burgess

Job Titles:
  • Part - Time Project Assistant, Creative Services

PA IPM

Job Titles:
  • PA IPM Community Program Specialist

Pablo Ochoa-Anderson

Job Titles:
  • Research Technician

Pamela Lynn Paletta

Job Titles:
  • 4 - H Youth Development Educator

Pamela Nisewonger

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Assistant

Patricia Anne Nordstrom

Job Titles:
  • Instructional Designer

Patricia Murphy


Patrick Campbell

Job Titles:
  • College Marketing Coordinator

Patty Graff


Paul Armstrong

Job Titles:
  • Agricultural Operations Specialist

Paul D. Esker

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Epidemiology and Field Crop Pathology
Areas of Expertise Integrated management of field crop diseases

Paula Morgan

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Coordinator

Paulyanna Stecko

Job Titles:
  • Manager

Peggy Newel

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant

Pete Moskel

Job Titles:
  • Worker

Peter Hanchar

Job Titles:
  • Facilities and Safety Coordinator

Peter McCloskey

Job Titles:
  • Research Data Analyst

Preston Goss

Job Titles:
  • IT Consultant

Qin Wang

Job Titles:
  • Research Support Technician

Rachel Brimmer

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Rachel Cloninger

Job Titles:
  • Animal Science Advising Coordinator

Rachel Herschlag


Rachel Smith

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Administrative Assistant

Rada Hristova

Job Titles:
  • Multimedia Specialist

Radhika Chalam

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Ramaswamy C. Anantheswaran

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Food Science

Randall L. Swope

Job Titles:
  • Coordinator of Support Units

Ray Delaney

Job Titles:
  • PA IPM Community Program Specialist

Ray Dreibelbis

Job Titles:
  • Barn Worker, Milker

Rebecca Berger

Job Titles:
  • Salesforce CRM Business Analyst

Rebecca Bomberger

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist I ( Harvatine Lab )

Rebecca Crouse

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Assistant

Rebecca Rumbel

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director of Digital Education - Non - Credit

Red Yuan

Job Titles:
  • Instructional Designer

Renuka Elizabeth Joseph

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Assistant ( Research )

Retha Sellmer

Job Titles:
  • Part - Time Education Program Support

Rhiannon Barry

Job Titles:
  • Virology Services Manager

Rhonda McGhee

Job Titles:
  • Part - Time Administrative Support

Richard Cole

Job Titles:
  • Director

Richard Sanders

Job Titles:
  • Creamery Storeroom Assistant - Grade 10

Richard Spicer

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student

Richard Stehouwer

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Environmental Soil Science

Rick Bates

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Horticulture
Areas of Expertise Informal seed systems in Southeast Asia

Rimnoma Serge Ouedraogo

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Research Professor

Rita Graef

Job Titles:
  • Director, Pasto Agricultural Museum & Armsby Respiration Calorimeter

Robert F. Roberts

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Department Head, Food Science

Robert Stout


Roger Tharp

Job Titles:
  • Team Lead - Systems and Infrastructur

Ron Hoover

Job Titles:
  • Senior Project Associate

Roxane Brenneman

Job Titles:
  • Lab Coordinator - Animal Sciences

Russell E. Larson

Job Titles:
  • Lake Erie Regional Grape Research and Extension Center

Ruth Markle

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Assistant

Ruth Mendum


Ryan Golas

Job Titles:
  • Building Coordinator

Ryan Marker

Job Titles:
  • IT Support Specialist

Ryan V. Trexler

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student

Sally Brown Bair

Job Titles:
  • News Writer

Samantha Mills

Job Titles:
  • Financial Assistant

Sara Banker

Job Titles:
  • Forest Stewardship Program Coordinator, Center for Private Forests at Penn Stat

Sara R. May

Job Titles:
  • Head Diagnostician and Plant Disease Clinic Manager

Sarah Chinn

Job Titles:
  • Kalser Faculty Research Assistance

Sarah Kania

Job Titles:
  • Assistant for Bee Collection - López - Uribe Lab

Sarah Pauley

Job Titles:
  • Digital Marketing and Analytics Manager

Sarah Ruszkowski

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Sarah Tierney

Job Titles:
  • Student, Soil Scienc

Savannah Wolfe

Job Titles:
  • Student, Plant Pathology

Scott Diloreto

Job Titles:
  • Greenhouse Manager

Scott Freyer

Job Titles:
  • Barn Worker / Milker

Scott Irvin

Job Titles:
  • IT Consultant Team Lead

Scott Kephart

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Poultry Education & Research Center ( PERC )

Scott Knouse

Job Titles:
  • Systems Administrator

Scott Sylves

Job Titles:
  • Senior Salesforce Administrator, Data Quality and Reporting Analyst

Sean O'Rourke-Ibach

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Shannon Zarkovich

Job Titles:
  • Research Administrator

Sheila Crust

Job Titles:
  • Business Manager

Sherry Crum

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director

Sheryl Flick

Job Titles:
  • Office Manager

Simon Mark Aspinall

Job Titles:
  • IT Consultant

Sina Sinai

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant, Leites Lab

Stacie Hritz

Job Titles:
  • 4 - H Enrollment CRM Administrator

Stefanie Hugill

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Manager

Stephanie Buechler

Job Titles:
  • Associate Research Professor

Stephanie Edel-Malizia

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director, Academic Digital Education

Stephanie Hill

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Support Coordinator

Stephanie McGargle

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Stephanie Slusser

Job Titles:
  • Research Support

Stephen Logue

Job Titles:
  • Director of Major Gifts

Steve Buchholz

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director for Business Operations

Steven Shanko

Job Titles:
  • Part - Time Research Assistant / Associate

Susan Bass

Job Titles:
  • Academic Program Coordinator

Susan Bedsworth Warner

Job Titles:
  • Development Communications Specialist

Susan Blesh

Job Titles:
  • Director of Business Operations

Susan Lechtanski

Job Titles:
  • Marketing Strategy Specialist

Susan Valimont


Suzanna Windon

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, Youth and Adult Leadership, Penn State Extension

Suzanne Watson

Job Titles:
  • Proposal and Award Generalist

Suze Dreibelbis

Job Titles:
  • Customer Service Representative

Tameria Veith

Job Titles:
  • Extension Manager

Tammy Kurtz

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Assistant for the Office of Research and Graduate Education
Areas of Expertise Rock Springs and Greenhouse Operations

Tammy May

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Assistant for Undergraduate Programs

Tammy Perkins

Job Titles:
  • Office Assistant

Tammy Winters

Job Titles:
  • Financial Assistant

Tara Mondock

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director for Client Relations

Tara Presnall

Job Titles:
  • Museum Specialist

Taran Rowles

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Tarrah Geszvain

Job Titles:
  • Coordinator

Teal Jordan

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist & Laboratory Manager, Kellogg Lab

Ted Fuller

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Terra Ingram

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Coordinator for the SAFES Institut

Terry Grove


Theodore Schaeffer

Job Titles:
  • Copywriter

Thomas Adams

Job Titles:
  • Research Project Manager

Thomas Dimick

Job Titles:
  • Outreach Coordinator and Computer Support

Thomas Harper


Thomas Leach

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
  • E - Commerce Manager

Tim Simkins

Job Titles:
  • Analyst
  • Programmer

Tim Wentz

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Legislative Committee

Timothy Kelsey

Job Titles:
  • Associate Head, Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education / Professor of Agricultural Economics

Timothy Lulis

Job Titles:
  • Teaching and Research Assistant

Tina Cutler

Job Titles:
  • Customer Service Representative

Tina Hall

Job Titles:
  • Human Resources Consultant, Extension

Tinamarie Illar

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director of Marketing Strategy

Tom Bettle

Job Titles:
  • Turf Research Facility Manager

Tom Smith


Tony Chiocco

Job Titles:
  • Instructional Designer

Tosh Rung Mazzone


Traci Pierre

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Tracy S. Hoover

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education
Areas of Expertise Youth leadership development

Travis D. Edwards

Job Titles:
  • Dairy Unit Co - Manager

Travis Waltz

Job Titles:
  • Systems Administrator

Trevor Bowes

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Trish Shaw


Troy Ott

Job Titles:
  • Dean C. Lee Rumberger and Family Chair in Agricultural Sciences

Ty Butler

Job Titles:
  • Program Coordinator

Tyler Lantiegne

Job Titles:
  • Research Tech

Tyler Robinson

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant

Veronica Brown

Job Titles:
  • Retail Store Manager

Veronika Weaver

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Victoria Barnhart

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director of Post - Award

Victoria Clouser

Job Titles:
  • Creamery Store Assistant

Victoria Siegle

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Assistant

Vincent Nelson

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Vinnie Valicente

Job Titles:
  • Research Project Manager - Sensory & Consumer Sciences

Wayne Martenas

Job Titles:
  • Member of the College Strategic Planning Committee
  • Member of the Program Committee

Weiya Xue

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Wendall M. Landis

Job Titles:
  • Beef / Sheep Complex Manager

Wendy Thomas

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Assistant

Whitney Fisher

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
  • Financial Officer

Will Stewart

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

William Boone

Job Titles:
  • Farm Manager

William Folmar

Job Titles:
  • Proposal and Award Generalist

William Myers

Job Titles:
  • Ag Operations Specialist

William Peters

Job Titles:
  • Field Technician ( Orchard Worker and Mechanical Operations )

Yuning Shi

Job Titles:
  • Associate Research Professor

Yvette Wolpo

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist ( Stenhouse Lab )

Zachary Kindall

Job Titles:
  • Salesforce Developer