Affiliated Researchers: Environment

Xun Cao

Professor, Political Science
Top research keywords: Air Pollution, China, Environmental Regulations, Economic Policy, Democracy

Edward (Ted) Reutzel

Senior Research Associate, Applied Research Laboratory (ARL)
Top research keywords: 3D Printers, Lasers, Additive, Powders, Fusion Reactions

Alexander Hristov

Professor, Animal Science
Top research keywords: Rumen, Dairy Cows, Methane, Milk, Rumen Fermentation

Jeffrey Hyde

Director of Extension and Associate Dean, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: Corn, Zea Mays, Farms, Farm, Ostrinia Nubilalis

Somayeh Asadi

Associate Professor, Architectural Engineering
Top research keywords: Energy Utilization, Scheduling, Renewable Energy Resources, Hot Temperature, Asphalt Pavements

Catherine Nettles Cutter

Professor, Food Science
Top research keywords: Red Meat, Beef Carcasses, Listeria Monocytogenes, Beef, Escherichia Coli O157

Melanie Hetzel-Riggin

Professor, School of Humanities & Social Sciences (Behrend)
Top research keywords: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders, Dissociative Disorders, Trauma, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Wounds And Injuries

Robert Hickey

Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Top research keywords: Block Copolymers, Block Copolymer, Nanoparticles, Self Assembly, Polyethylene Oxides

Kathy Kelley

Professor, Plant Science
Top research keywords: Edible Flowers, Consumer Preferences, Wine, Purchasing, Gardeners

Bing Pan

Professor, Recreation, Park and Tourism Management
Top research keywords: Tourism, Tourist, Search Engine, Marketing, Travel

Kostas Papakonstantinou

Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Top research keywords: Markov Processes, Inspection, Life Cycle, Dynamic Programming, Partially Observable Markov Decision Process

Jennifer Van Hook

Roy C. Buck Professor, Sociology and Criminology
Top research keywords: Immigrant, Immigrants, Immigration, Child, Emigration And Immigration

Ying-Ling Jao

Associate Professor, Ross and Carol Nese College of Nursing
Top research keywords: Dementia, Apathy, Nursing Homes, Long-Term Care, Systematic Reviews

Philip Bevilacqua

Professor, Chemistry
Top research keywords: Catalytic RNA, RNA, Hepatitis Delta Virus, RNA Folding, Catalysis

William Driscoll

Top research keywords: Altruism, Allelopathy, Sociobiology, Eutrophication, Haptophyta

Wilson Brown

Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology, School of Humanities & Social Sciences (Behrend)
Top research keywords: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Trauma, Veterans, Drop-out

Karen Fisher-Vanden

Professor, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: Carbon, Climate Change, China, Carbon Tax, Taxation

Ashkan Negahban

Associate Professor of Engineering Management, Engineering Division (Great Valley)
Top research keywords: Agent-based Simulation, New Products, Hybrid Simulation, Problem-Based Learning, Sales

Julie Urban

Associate Research Professor, Entomology
Top research keywords: Fulgoridae, Hemiptera, Lycorma Delicatula, Fulgoroidea, Planthopper

Timothy W. Kelsey

Professor, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: Farms, Farm, Agriculture, Mushroom, Costs

Aleksandra Radlinska

Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Top research keywords: Slags, Concretes, Slag, Portland Cement, Drying

Michael Yukish

Research Associate, Applied Research Laboratory (ARL)
Top research keywords: Space Exploration, Design, Fidelity, Data Visualization, Energy Absorption

Howard Salis

Associate Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Top research keywords: Ribosomes, Kinetics, Proteins, Riboswitch, Machine Learning

Gamini Mendis

Assistant Professor of Engineering, School of Engineering (Behrend)
Top research keywords: Machining, Bauxite, Recovery, Lignin, Energy Utilization

Gary Perdew

John T. And Paige S. Smith Professor, Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
Top research keywords: Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptors, Hydrocarbon, Ligands, Human AHR Protein, Protein

Rudolf Schilder

Associate Professor, Entomology
Top research keywords: Alternative Splicing, RNA Precursors, Odonata, Troponin T, Muscles

Louisa Holmes

Associate Professor, Geography
Top research keywords: San Francisco, Young Adult, Bays, Nicotine, Cannabis

S. Shyam Sundar

Distinguished Professor, Film-Video and Media Studies
Top research keywords: Interactive Media, Websites, Experiments, User Experience, Communication

Simon Miller

Research Assistant, Applied Research Laboratory (ARL)
Top research keywords: Design, Fidelity, Textiles, Trade, Recurrent Neural Networks

Mary Beth Williams

Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, Eberly College of Science
Top research keywords: Polyethers, Oxidation-Reduction, Nanoparticles, Ligands, Polyether

Ezra Clark

Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering
Top research keywords: Electrochemical Reduction, Nanowires, Reduction, Nanowire, Positive Ions

Xiang Gao

Professor, Nutritional Sciences
Top research keywords: Parkinson Disease, Prospective Studies, Confidence Intervals, Restless Legs Syndrome, Cohort Studies

Jiawei Gong

Top research keywords: Dye-sensitized Solar Cells, Perovskite Solar Cells, Conversion Efficiency, Electrodes, Turbulence

Majid Foolad

Professor, Plant Science
Top research keywords: Lycopersicon Esculentum, Tomatoes, Salt Tolerance, Germination, Quantitative Trait Loci

Gregory Ziegler

Professor, Food Science
Top research keywords: Chocolate, Starch, Milk, Amylose, Milk Chocolate

Zuleima Karpyn

Associate Dean for Graduate Education and Research; Professor, John and Willie Leone Department of Energy & Mineral Engineering (EME)
Top research keywords: Rocks, Permeability, Fluids, Fluid, Oil Well Flooding

Sergei Koshkin

Assistant Research Professor, Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences
Top research keywords: Pyridoxine, Aminophosphine, Phosphorodithioic Acid, 6-methyluracil, Meteoroids

Elizabeth Ransom

Associate Professor, School of International Affairs
Top research keywords: Food, Local Food Systems, Global Commodity Chains, Gender, Rural Communities

Aron Laszka

Assistant Professor, College of Information Sciences and Technology
Top research keywords: Blockchain, Attack, Game, Ethereum, Topology

Sherri Mason

Sustainability Coordinator, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College
Top research keywords: Microplastics, Lakes, Pollution, Lake, Plastic