Affiliated Researchers: Research

Greg Barber

Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Division of Mathematics & Natural Sciences (Altoona)
Top research keywords: Photonic Crystals, Surface Plasmons, Photonic Crystal, Solar Cells, Dye-sensitized Solar Cells

Troy Ott

Professor, Animal Science
Top research keywords: Ovine, Interferon-α (IFN-α), Interferon Tau, Conceptus, Endometrium

Prasenjit Mitra

Professor, College of Information Sciences and Technology
Top research keywords: Search Engines, Digital Libraries, Metadata, Semantics, Classifiers

David Toews

Assistant Professor, Biology
Top research keywords: Warbler, Genomics, Hybrid Zone, Genetics, Aves

Kevin Hockett

Associate Professor, Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology
Top research keywords: Pseudomonas Syringae, Bacteriocin, Infectious Agent, Bacteriophage, Pseudomonas

Nikhil Menon

Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, School of Science, Engineering & Technology (Harrisburg)
Top research keywords: Automated Vehicle, Statistical Analysis, Transportation Network, Transport, COVID-19 Pandemic

Josephine Wee

Assistant Professor, Food Science
Top research keywords: Aspergillus Parasiticus, Aflatoxin, Oxidative Stress, Transcription Factors, Transcription Factor

Bert Chandler

Professor, Chemical Engineering
Top research keywords: Nanoparticle, Dendrimer, Titanium Dioxide, Oxidation Reaction, CO Oxidation

Ali Borhan

Professor, Chemical Engineering
Top research keywords: Surfactant, Axisymmetric, Solid Surface, Bond Number, Fluid Viscosity

Blair Siegfried

Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education, College of Agricultural Sciences
Top research keywords: Western Corn Rootworm, Diabrotica Virgifera, Coleoptera, European Corn Borer, Bacillus Thuringiensis

Edward Dudley

Professor, Food Science
Top research keywords: Escherichia Coli, Escherichia Coli O157:H7, Serotype, Escherichia Coli O157, Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)

Sukwon Choi

Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Top research keywords: Nitride, Transistor, Ga2O3, Gallium Nitride, GaN HEMT

George Milner

Distinguished Professor, Anthropology
Top research keywords: Skeleton, Cemetery, Dental Calculus, Death, River

Paul Cremer

J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Natural Sciences, Eberly College of Science
Top research keywords: Supported Lipid Bilayer, Lipids, Sum-frequency Generation Spectroscopy, Spectroscopy, Aqueous Solution

Gretchen A. Kuldau

Associate Professor, Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology
Top research keywords: Maize, Fusarium Verticillioides, Fusarium, Fusarium Graminearum, Ensiling

Aida Ebrahimi

Associate Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Top research keywords: Silicon, Hydrogenation, Carbon Nanotube, Nanostructure, Graphene

Seth Bordenstein

Professor, Biology
Top research keywords: Wolbachia, Cytoplasmic Incompatibility, Bacteriophage, Microorganism, Nasonia

Matthew Jones

Research Assistant, Biology
Top research keywords: Aedes Aegypti, Wolbachia, Infectious Agent, West Nile Virus, Dengue Virus

Gamini Mendis

Assistant Professor of Engineering, School of Engineering (Behrend)
Top research keywords: Energy Consumption, Genetic Algorithm, Energy Efficiency, Energy Conservation, Bauxite Residue

Margarita López-Uribe

Lorenzo L. Langstroth Early Career Professor and Associate Professor, Entomology
Top research keywords: Apoidea, Hymenoptera, Pollinator, Pollinators, Apidae

Fernando Soto

Assistant Professor of Energy Engineering, Penn State Greater Allegheny
Top research keywords: Surface (Surface Science), Solid Electrolyte, Density, Solid Electrolyte Interphase, Density Functional Theory

Zihan Zhou

Assistant Professor, College of Information Sciences and Technology
Top research keywords: Face Recognition, Sparse Representation, Convolutional Neural Network, Art Performance, Wireframe

Mauricio Terrones

George A. and Margaret M. Downsbrough Department Head, Evan Pugh University Professor, and Verne M. Willaman Professor of Physics, Physics
Top research keywords: Carbon Nanotube, Nanotube, Graphene, Carbon Nanotubes, Monolayers

Burcu Ozden

Assistant Professor of Engineering, Division of Engineering and Science (Abington)
Top research keywords: Transistor, Polaritons, AlGaN-GaN, Electron Mobility, GaN HEMT

Isabelle Holland-Lulewicz

Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Top research keywords: Florida, United States Of America, Georgia Coast, Native American, Mounds

Joshua Smyth

Distinguished Professor, Biobehavioral Health
Top research keywords: Ecological Momentary Assessment, Health, Mood, Mindfulness, Depression

Kristin Sznajder

Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences
Top research keywords: China, Structural Equation Analysis, Prospective Cohort Study, COVID-19, Resilience

Tanya Renner

Associate Professor, Entomology
Top research keywords: Carnivorous Plants, Evolution, Genomics, Primary Metabolism, Carabid Beetles

Femeena Pandara Valappil

Assistant Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Top research keywords: Duckweed, Watersheds, Lemna, Water Assessment Tool, Soil Investigation

Stephanie Law

Associate Professor and Norris B. McFarlane Faculty Career Development Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Top research keywords: Film, Topological Insulator, Bismuth Telluride, Mid-infrared, Thin Films

Michael Skvarla

Assistant Research Professor, Entomology
Top research keywords: Coleoptera, Mite, Acari, Hemiptera, New Species

Tonya Peeples

Harold and Inge Marcus Dean, College of Engineering
Top research keywords: Bioconversion, Aqueous Two-phase System, Methanocaldococcus Jannaschii, Extremophiles, Summer Bridge Programs

David Craft

Professor Emeritus, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Top research keywords: Acinetobacter Baumannii, Military Facilities, Iraq, Microbiology, Acinetobacter

Joshua Robinson

Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Top research keywords: Graphene, Monolayers, Transition Metal Dichalcogenide, Two-Dimensional Material, Heterojunction

Lisa Emili

Associate Professor, Division of Mathematics & Natural Sciences (Altoona)
Top research keywords: Peatland, British Columbia, Surface Water, Creek, National Memorial

Travis Flohr

Assistant Professor, Landscape Architecture
Top research keywords: Environmental Justice, Methods Courses, Urban Trees, Mean Radiant Temperature, Virtual Field Trips

Ruohao Zhang

Assistant Professor, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: COVID-19 Mortality, Mortality, Vaccination Record, COVID-19, Economic Impact Payments

Tami Mysliwiec

Associate Professor of Biology, Division of Science (Berks)
Top research keywords: Tyrosine Kinase, C-Terminus, Receptor Tyrosine Kinase, SH3 Domain, Sporogenesis

Stephen Chmely

Assistant Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Top research keywords: Lignin, Density Functional Theory, Mixed Metal Oxide Catalyst, Phosphide, Carbides

Jasna Kovac

Lester Earl And Veronica Casida Career Development Professor Of Food Safety And Associate Professor Of Food Science, Food Science
Top research keywords: Bacillus Cereus, Bacillus Cereus Group, B.cereus, Campylobacter, Ethiopia