Affiliated Researchers: Policy Analysis

Affiliates are Penn Staters who have a connection to or an interest in the work of the Institute of Energy and the Environment.

Displaying 60 search result(s) for Policy Analysis.

Nikhil Menon



Top research keywords: Automated Vehicle, Statistical Analysis, COVID 19 Epidemic, Transport, Transportation Network

Douglas Wrenn


Associate Professor, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: Subdivision Development, Residential Subdivisions, Pennsylvania, Shale Gas Development, Residential Development

Kusumal Ruamsook


Assistant Research Professor, Center for Supply Chain Research
Top research keywords: Supply Chain Management, Transport, USA, Low-cost Countries, Comparative Analysis

Max Crowley


Professor, Human Development and Family Studies
Top research keywords: Politicians, Externalization, Randomized Controlled Trial, Evidence-Based, Cost Benefit Analysis

Ryan Thombs


Assistant Professor, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: Carbon Dioxide, United States, Fixed Effects, Income Inequality, US States

Guangqing Chi


Professor, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: China, Population Dynamics, Population Change, Land Use, Population Increase

Mehrdad Mahdavi


Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
Top research keywords: Harmony Search, Neural Network, Optimization Problem, Gradient Descent, Approximation (Algorithm)

Elizabeth Ransom


Associate Professor, School of International Affairs
Top research keywords: Food Systems, Botswana, Food Insecurity, Food Security, Livestock

Esther Prins


Professor, Learning and Performance Systems
Top research keywords: Literacy Programmes, Family Literacy Programmes, Family Literacy, Adult Literacy, Literacy

Junjun Yin


Assistant Research Professor, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: Twitter Data, Spatial Interaction, Mobile Device, Twitter User, Social Media

Seth Blumsack


Professor, John and Willie Leone Department of Energy & Mineral Engineering (EME)
Top research keywords: Natural Gas, Power Engineering, United States, Power Grid, Joints (Structural Components)

Chiara Lo Prete


Associate Professor, John and Willie Leone Department of Energy & Mineral Engineering (EME)
Top research keywords: Microgrid, Crossed Product, Financial Transmission Rights, Power Engineering, Game Analysis

Suvrat Dhanorkar


Associate Professor, Supply Chain and Information Systems
Top research keywords: Waste Exchange, Material Exchange, Online Material, Supply Chain Management, Toxic Release

Darla Lindberg


Professor of Architecture, Architecture
Top research keywords: Porous Borders, Food Safety Assurance, Policy Response, Air Quality, Glycemic Index

Katriona Shea


Alumni Professor, Biology
Top research keywords: Carduus Nutans, Seeds, Thistle, Life History, Pollinator

Charles Ray


Associate Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Lumber, Kilns, Hardwoods, Wood, Drying

Lara Fowler


Senior Lecturer, Penn State Law (University Park)
Top research keywords: Stakeholder Engagement, Water Resources Management, Water Management, Climate Change, Washington

Mort Webster


Professor, John and Willie Leone Department of Energy & Mineral Engineering (EME)
Top research keywords: Power Generation, Texas, Air Quality, Electricity Generation, Power Engineering

Jeffrey Hyde


Director of Extension and Associate Dean, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: Dairy Farm, Maize, Wine, Pennsylvania, Cow

Anne Menefee


Assistant Professor, John and Willie Leone Department of Energy & Mineral Engineering (EME)
Top research keywords: Carbon Dioxide, Basalt, Shale, Carbonate, Greenhouse Gas

Joyce Sakamoto


Assistant Research Professor, Entomology
Top research keywords: Wolbachia, Wolbachia Infection, Vaginal Microbiome, Vagina Flora, Ixodes Scapularis

Mohamad Darayi


Associate Professor of Systems Engineering, Engineering Division (Great Valley)
Top research keywords: Network Components, Vulnerability, Disruptions, Multi-industry, Freight Transportation

Jayson K. Harper



Top research keywords: Growers, Bug, Cultivar, Poland, Maize

Akhlesh Lakhtakia


Evan Pugh University Professor and Charles G. Binder Professor, Engineering Science and Mechanics
Top research keywords: Thin Films, Dielectrics, Chiral Sculptured Thin Film, Surface Plasmon Polaritons, Plane Wave

Stephen Mainzer


Assistant Professor, Landscape Architecture
Top research keywords: Chesapeake Bay Watershed, Chesapeake Bay, USA, Collective Identity, Collective Action

Timothy W. Kelsey


Professor, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: Pennsylvania, Marcellus Shale, Agriculture, United States, Shale Gas

Christine Costello


Assistant Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Top research keywords: United States, Missouri, Climate Change, Land Use, Waste Management

Elizabeth Traut



Top research keywords: Public Transit, Charging Infrastructure, Optimal Allocation, Spatial Interaction, Optimal Design

Kostas Papakonstantinou


Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Top research keywords: Partially Observable Markov Decision Process, Reinforcement Learning, Deep Reinforcement Learning (deep RL), Lifecycle, Markov Decision Process

Shedra "Amy" Snipes


Associate Professor, Biobehavioral Health
Top research keywords: Farmers, Pesticides, Personal Protective Equipment, Mexican Americans, African Americans

Jeremy Gernand


Associate Professor, John and Willie Leone Department of Energy & Mineral Engineering (EME)
Top research keywords: Pulmonary Toxicity, Dose-response, Occupational Safety And Health, Nanomaterials, Pennsylvania

Martin Pietrucha


Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Top research keywords: Variable Message Signs, Visibility, Highway Systems, Traffic Signs, Travel Time

Mark Roberts


Professor, Economics
Top research keywords: Industry, Productivity Change, Export Markets, Price, Productivity Growth

Jamison Colburn


Professor, Penn State Law (University Park)
Top research keywords: Climate Change, Environmental Policy, National Environmental Policy Act, Law, Courts

William Easterling III


Professor, Geography
Top research keywords: Climate Change, Crop, Climate, Erosion Productivity Impact Calculator, Maize

Zuleima Karpyn


Associate Dean for Graduate Education and Research; Professor, John and Willie Leone Department of Energy & Mineral Engineering (EME)
Top research keywords: Relative Permeability, Well Flooding, Wettability, Oil Recovery, Multiphase Flow

Emily Pakhtigian


Assistant Professor in School of Public Policy, School of Public Policy
Top research keywords: Household, Coal-fired Power Plant, Cholera, Plant Closure, Risk Information

Karl Zimmerer


Distinguished Professor, Geography
Top research keywords: Agrobiodiversity, Bolivia, Andes, Environmental Impact Assessment, Geography

Jennifer Van Hook


Roy C. Buck Professor, Sociology and Criminology
Top research keywords: Immigrant, USA, Immigrants, United States, Immigrant Children

Edward C. Jaenicke


Professor, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: Private Label, United States, Organic Food, Household Level, Food Waste