AGROECOLOGY - Key Persons


Abbie E. Spackman

Job Titles:
  • Project Assistant

Abby Hopkins Floyd

Job Titles:
  • Director of Major Gifts

Adam Brandt

Job Titles:
  • Laboratory Assistant

Adele M. Turzillo

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Department Head, Animal Science

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 Coordinator

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 L. Pyle

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Assistant

Amy Long

Job Titles:
  • Proposal and Awards Generalist

Andre Luis

Job Titles:
  • Programmer / Analyst 4

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

Andrew Dutrow

Job Titles:
  • Barn Utility Worker ( Dairy Complex )

Andy Nollman

Job Titles:
  • Spotted Lanternfly Research Administrator

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

Arash (Feizollah) Maleki


Armon Zolghadr

Job Titles:
  • IT Support Specialist

Ashley McMullen

Job Titles:
  • Event Management Specialist

Ashley Struble

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Assistant

Audrey Gay Rodgers

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee

Austin Kirt

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

B.S. Student

Job Titles:
  • Student

Barb Sellers

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Assistant

Ben Kunkel

Job Titles:
  • Poultry Research Technician

Ben Morrison

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Benjamin Kline

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Swine Center Unit Manager

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:
  • Administrative Support

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, Part - 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 Macafee

Job Titles:
  • Agricultural Operations Specialist

Brian Redder

Job Titles:
  • Student, SOILS

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

Cara Beck

Job Titles:
  • Customer Service Representative

Cara Rosancrans


Carl Schlagnhaufer

Job Titles:
  • Lab Research Technician

Carla Snyder

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

Carrie Bomgardner

Job Titles:
  • Director

Carrie Khouzani

Job Titles:
  • Specialist

Carrington J. Stephenson

Job Titles:
  • Research Technician, Avian Virology

Carston Myers


Catherine Nettles Cutter

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Food Science / Assistant Director of Food Safety & Quality Programs

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 Miller


Chris Sanchez

Job Titles:
  • Agricultural Operations Specialist

Christina Voortman

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Christine Andrus

Job Titles:
  • Assistant

Christine Doster

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Assistant

Christopher Coyne

Job Titles:
  • Instructional Designer

Christopher J. Grant

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Manager, Horse Unit

Christopher Sigler

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Teaching Professor / Academic Advisor

Chrystal A Wheeler

Job Titles:
  • Academic Adviser

Chuck Gill

Job Titles:
  • News Editor
  • Senior Public Relations Specialist

Cindee Feagley


Claudio Frumento

Job Titles:
  • IT Consultant

Cole Connolly

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Student

Coleen M. Jones

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Colleen Heckard

Job Titles:
  • Team Marketing Coordinator

Corey Dillon

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Agronomy Farm

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

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

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

Darrin Youker

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Secretary / Treasurer, PA Farm Bureau

Dave Sandor

Job Titles:
  • Instructional Designer

Dave Smith

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Member of the Nominating Committee

David Long


David Muñoz

Job Titles:
  • Research and Equity Specialist

Dayton Spackman

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Dean Miller

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Deanna M. Behring

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

Deanne Bailey

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Coordinator

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 Technologist I

Dilooshi Weerasooriya

Job Titles:
  • Lab Manager

Don C. Wagner

Job Titles:
  • Deer Unit Manager
  • Research Administrator, Pre - Award

Don Smith

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Ed Rajotte

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus of Entomology

Ed Zuech

Job Titles:
  • Director, Information Technologies

Edit Radone

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director - Research Administrator, Post - Award

Edward Jedrzejewski

Job Titles:
  • Horse Unit Manager

Edward Kaiser

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Elizabeth "Liz" Barnes

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

Elizabeth Egan

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist, Roadside Vegetative Management Project

Elizabeth Ransom

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of International Affairs

Elle Andreen

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Research Assistant

Ellen Bingham

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Ellen Fisher

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Assistant

Emerald Welteroth

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager

Emily Grandinette

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Emily Jozefik


Emily Morrison

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Coordinator

Emily Reid

Job Titles:
  • Team Marketing Coordinator

Eric Anderson

Job Titles:
  • Orchard Worker and Mechanical Operations

Eric Rosenbaum

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Member of the Program Committee

Erica A. Johnson

Job Titles:
  • Proposal & Awards Generalist

Erika Stover

Job Titles:
  • Proposal and Award Generalist

Erikka Runkle

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

Eriks Dunens

Job Titles:
  • Strategy and Compliance Specialist

Erin E. Connolly

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

Erin Mickney

Job Titles:
  • Financial Assistant

Erin Reed

Job Titles:
  • Conference Planner

Erin Shawley

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Assistant

Estelle McKee

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Ethan Hull

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Ethan Whitmoyer

Job Titles:
  • Grain Crops Research Technologist

Eugene Wingert

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

Evelyn Mayhew

Job Titles:
  • Financial Assistant

Farmer Liaison


Forest Stewardship

Job Titles:
  • Forest Stewardship Program Associate
  • 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

Ginamaría Román Echevarría

Job Titles:
  • Communication Specialist

Glenn L. Myers

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Penn State Meats Lab

Grace Gutierrez

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Research Assistant

Greg Kirkham

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Member of the Program Committee

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 Officers Team
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Immediate past President, PA Landscape & Nursery Association
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


Hailey Guerriero

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director of Finance and Business Operations

Haley Chilcot

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Hanh Tran

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Harmony Miller

Job Titles:
  • Agricultural Outreach Specialist ( Education Program Specialist )

Hassan Gourama

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Food Science

Heather Engler

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Heather Nowlin

Job Titles:
  • Financial Assistant

Hillary Clark

Job Titles:
  • Marketing Strategy Specialist

Ikenna Okafor


Interim Dean

Job Titles:
  • Member of the College Leadership Team

Isabella Petitta


Isako Di Tomassi

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant - Pecchia Lab

Jacki Sterner Weikert

Job Titles:
  • IT Consultant

Jackie Gibboney

Job Titles:
  • Academic Adviser

Jackie Huntington

Job Titles:
  • Research Administrative Support Assistant

Jafar Dzhabarov

Job Titles:
  • Research Data Analyst

Jaime Garcia Prudencio

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

James Bollinger

Job Titles:
  • Senior Agronomy Technician

James Brown

Job Titles:
  • Berkey Creamery Assistant Manager

Jamie Klaue

Job Titles:
  • Office Manager

Jan McClintock

Job Titles:
  • 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

Job Titles:
  • Barn Worker, Milker

Jason Issenhood

Job Titles:
  • Worker

Jayson K. Harper

Job Titles:
  • Director, Penn State Fruit Research and Extension Center ( FREC ) Professor of Agricultural Economics

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 Allen Osborne

Job Titles:
  • Forest Stewardship Program Associate

Jenn Barnhart

Job Titles:
  • Development Assistant

Jenna Neff

Job Titles:
  • Proposal and Award Generalist

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

Jennifer Bair

Job Titles:
  • Art Director

Jennifer McLaughlin

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Assistant

Jennifer Monroe

Job Titles:
  • Extension Administrative Support Assistant

Jennifer Morocko

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Assistant 3, Undergraduate Support

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

Jenny Storch


Jenny Walker

Job Titles:
  • Graphic Designer

Jeremy Maggio

Job Titles:
  • Student

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

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

Jodi Butler

Job Titles:
  • Financial 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 Ciaccia

Job Titles:
  • Sensory Coordinator

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 Kozak

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

K. Sandeep Prabhu

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

Kadia Bower

Job Titles:
  • Grants and Cost Share Coordinator

Kaile Jump

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist 2 - Kalantari Lab

Kaleb Wolfe

Job Titles:
  • Research Technician

Kama Corman

Job Titles:
  • Financial Coordinator

Kandice Harris

Job Titles:
  • Instructional Designer Assistant

Karen Brown


Karen Miller

Job Titles:
  • Customer Service Representative

Karen Mullen

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant

Kasey Baker

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist ( Joy Pate Lab )

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 Elder


Katherine L. Cason

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

Katherine Shumac

Job Titles:
  • Research Support Technologist III

Kathryn Bartling

Job Titles:
  • Watershed Project Coordinator

Kathryn J. Brasier

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Rural Sociology
Areas of Expertise Energy and Society, specifically Community Impacts of Marcellus Shale Development

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

Kay Allyn

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

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 Snyder

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

Kenneth Woll

Job Titles:
  • IT Consultant

Keri Griffin

Job Titles:
  • Lead Multimedia Specialist

Kerry E. Kaylegian

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

Ketja Lingenfelter

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director
  • Assistant Director for Student Global Engagement

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:
  • Administrative Staff Assistant

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 Laiton Jimenez

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Laura Mellott

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant - Entomology

Laura Mikulak

Job Titles:
  • Proposal and Award Generalist

Laura P. Leites

Job Titles:
  • Research Professor of Quantitative Forest Ecology
Areas of Expertise Adaptation to climate in forest trees

Laura Porturas

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Curator

Lauren Hassinger

Job Titles:
  • Marketing Strategy Specialist

Lauren Steinberg

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

Lauri Enterline

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Students Advisor

Laurie Jones

Job Titles:
  • Editor

Leanne Crosson

Job Titles:
  • Financial Assistant

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:
  • Research Assistant

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 Weaver

Job Titles:
  • Financial Assistant

LingLing Li

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

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

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:
  • Member of the College Leadership Team

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
  • Vice President, PA Forestry Association

Marcela Martinez

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Marcia Kerschner-Jones

Job Titles:
  • Financial Assistant

Margaret Weber

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Assistant

Mari Royer

Job Titles:
  • Department Head Assistant

Maria Blesh

Job Titles:
  • Education Program Specialist

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
  • President, American Mushroom Institute

Mark Walters


Marlene Stauffer

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Member of the Program Committee

Marley Stonesifer

Job Titles:
  • Research Tech

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:
  • Administrative Support Assistant

Mary B. Shoffner

Job Titles:
  • Instructional Designer

Mary Barbercheck

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Entomology

Mary Beth Day

Job Titles:
  • Financial Coordinator

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:
  • Web Coordinator

Maryellen O'Brien

Job Titles:
  • Director, Grants and Contracts

Matt Black

Job Titles:
  • Marketing Communications Specialist

Matt Ehrhart

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Legislative Committee

Matt Stumpf

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

Matthew B. Royer

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director of Partnerships & Engagement

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

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

Melissa Ishler

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Melissa McCloskey

Job Titles:
  • Financial Coordinator

Melissa Strouse


Melissa Tomascik


Michael Dwyer

Job Titles:
  • Agricultural Operations Specialist

Michael Hile

Job Titles:
  • Director - Penn State Odor Assessment Laboratory

Michael Hill

Job Titles:
  • Illustrator, Grozinger Lab

Michael Houtz

Job Titles:
  • Multimedia Specialist ( P / T )

Michael Mayernick

Job Titles:
  • Instructional Production Specialist

Michael Powell


Michael Quickel

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student - Pathobiology

Michael Robbins

Job Titles:
  • Soil Research Cluster Laboratory Manager

Michael Toolan

Job Titles:
  • Student, Forest Resources

Michael Tribone

Job Titles:
  • Specialist

Michael Zerby

Job Titles:
  • Creamery Delivery Driver

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 Loyer

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Research Assistant

Mindy Moore

Job Titles:
  • Human Resource Consultant

Mischelle B. Forgy

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Coordinator in the Center for Professional Personnel Development
  • Administrative Support Assistant

Mitch Colpetzer

Job Titles:
  • Special Relief Utility Operator

Mitchell Stephens

Job Titles:
  • Manager of Haller Farm

Mollie Van Loon

Job Titles:
  • Senior Project Associate, CSIS

Molly Martin

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Assistant ( Grad / Undergrad 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:
  • Avian Virology Diagnostic Technician

Nathan Reigner

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Research Professor

Nazmiye Celik

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Nhat Ngo

Job Titles:
  • IT Support Specialist

Nick Grove


Nicole Day

Job Titles:
  • Multimedia Specialist

Nicole Houck

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Program Coordinator

Nikki Palmiero

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Nina Falcone

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Noel Habashy

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

Norma Jeanne Young

Job Titles:
  • Content Manager - Education Coordinator

Olena Voloshchuk

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Olivia Burgess

Job Titles:
  • Project Assistant

Pamela Lynn Paletta


Pamela Nisewonger

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Assistant

Patreese Ingram

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Dean for Multicultural Affairs

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 Guest

Job Titles:
  • Editor

Paula Morgan

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Coordinator

Paulyanna Stecko

Job Titles:
  • Manager

Peggy Newel

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support 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

Job Titles:
  • Student

Rachel L. Unger

Job Titles:
  • Coordinator for Financial and Administrative Operations

Rachel Smith

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Administrative Assistant

Rada A 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 Dreibelbis

Job Titles:
  • Barn Worker, Milker

Rebecca Berger

Job Titles:
  • Business Systems 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

Reneé Miller

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Coordinator

Renuka Elizabeth Joseph

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Assistant ( Research )

Rhiannon Barry

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Rhonda McGhee

Job Titles:
  • Part - Time Administrative Support

Richard Roush

Job Titles:
  • Dean, College of Agricultural Sciences

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 Shannon

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering / Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Education, College of Agricultural Sciences

Robert Stout


Roger Tharp

Job Titles:
  • Team Lead - Systems and Infrastructur

Ron Hoover

Job Titles:
  • Senior Project Associate

Russell E. Larson

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

Ruth Markle

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Assistant

Ruth Mendum

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director for Gender Initiatives

Ruth Nissly

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Research Professor

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 Lexon

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Sarah Pauley

Job Titles:
  • Digital Marketing and Analytics Manager

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

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:
  • Pre - Award, Research Administrator

Sheila Crust

Job Titles:
  • Business Manager

Sherry Crum

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director

Sheryl Flick

Job Titles:
  • Office Manager

Sierra Fleck

Job Titles:
  • Financial Assistant

Simon Mark Aspinall

Job Titles:
  • IT Consultant

Sina Sinai

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant, Leites Lab

Sofia Maki

Job Titles:
  • Customer Service Representative

Stacie Hritz

Job Titles:
  • 4 - H Enrollment CRM Administrator

Stacy Port

Job Titles:
  • Financial Coordinator

Stefanie Hugill

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Coordinator

Stephanie Bierly

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant - Food Animal Microbiome ( Ganda Lab )

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 Technician ( John Boney Lab )

Stephanie Slusser

Job Titles:
  • Research Support

Stephen Logue

Job Titles:
  • Director of Major Gifts

Steve Buchholz - COO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Operating Officer

Steve Loerch

Job Titles:
  • Dean
  • Member of the College Leadership Team
  • Senior Associate

Steven Shanko

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Research Assistant

Suat Irmak

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

Susan Bass

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Program Coordinator

Susan Bedsworth Warner

Job Titles:
  • Development Communications Specialist

Susan Blesh

Job Titles:
  • Director of Business Operations

Susan Kertis


Susan Rudy

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Assistant

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 May

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Assistant for Undergraduate Programs

Tammy Perkins

Job Titles:
  • Office Assistant

Tammy Shannon

Job Titles:
  • Academic Advising Coordinator, Environmental Resource Management

Tammy Winters

Job Titles:
  • Financial Assistant

Tara Mondock

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director of 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

Thomas R. Davis

Job Titles:
  • Berkey Creamery Manager

Tim Baker

Job Titles:
  • Farm 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

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist III

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


Ty Butler

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Coordinator

Tyler Lantiegne

Job Titles:
  • Research Tech

Tyler Robinson

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Assistant

Veronica Brown

Job Titles:
  • Retail Store Manager

Veronika Weaver

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Victoria Barnhart

Job Titles:
  • Proposal and Award Generalist

Victoria Clouser

Job Titles:
  • Creamery Store Assistant

Victoria Siegle

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Assistant

Vincent Nelson

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist

Wai Fun Leong

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Laboratory Support Specialist

Wayne Martenas

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

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 )

Zachary Kindall

Job Titles:
  • Salesforce Developer

Zachary Paul Sanders

Job Titles:
  • Research Technologist / PhD Graduate Student, Soil Scienc