CCA - 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 Hushon

Job Titles:
  • Partner

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

Frank Schneider

Job Titles:
  • Director

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

Hanna Wells


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:
  • Administrative Coordinator
  • 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 Bresaw

Job Titles:
  • Water Program Specialist

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 Hykes


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

PA Certified Crop

Job Titles:
  • Adviser Program
The Certified Crop Adviser or CCA program was created specially for professionals who advise growers on agronomic practices and meet the standards of the program.

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