Affiliated Researchers: Science

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

Displaying 601 search result(s) for Science.

Jason Keagy


Assistant Research Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Mating Success, Gasterosteidae, Gasterosteus Aculeatus, Smegmamorpha, Sexual Selection

Farshad Rajabipour


Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Top research keywords: Concretes, Fly Ash, Silica, Cements, Mortar

James Wang


Professor of Information Sciences and Technology, College of Information Sciences and Technology
Top research keywords: Image Retrieval, Image Annotation, Semantics, Painting, Histology

Lauren McPhillips


Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Top research keywords: Stormwater, Denitrification, Watershed, Infrastructure, Urban Ecosystem

Amanda Johnsen


Assistant Professor, Ken and Mary Alice Lindquist Department of Nuclear Engineering
Top research keywords: Neutron Activation Analysis, Irradiation, Trace Elements, Gas Cooled Fast Reactors, Plutonium

Aleksandra Radlinska


Hartz Family Career Development Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Top research keywords: Slags, Concretes, Slag, Portland Cement, Drying

Nina Jablonski


Evan Pugh University Professor of Anthropology, Anthropology
Top research keywords: Skin Pigmentation, Hominidae, Theropithecus, Vitamin D, Ultraviolet Rays

Bradley Wyble


Professor, Psychology
Top research keywords: Attentional Blink, Short-Term Memory, Memory, Color, Amnesia

Sally Mackenzie


Lloyd and Dottie Huck Chair for Functional Genomics and Professor, Biology
Top research keywords: Mitochondrial Genome, Arabidopsis, Fertility, Plastids, Male Infertility

Robert Mathers


Professor, Penn State New Kensington
Top research keywords: Polymerization, Monomers, Polymers, Monomer, Hydrophobicity

Michael Skvarla


Assistant Research Professor, Entomology
Top research keywords: Cunaxidae, Acari, Mite, Mites, Arkansas River

Wesley Reinhart


Assistant Professor in Materials Science and Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering
Top research keywords: Nanochannel, Simulation, Janus, Machine Learning, Deoxyribonucleic Acid

Sanjib Sharma


Assistant Research Professor, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute
Top research keywords: Forecast, Streamflow, Flood Hazard, Prediction, River Basin

Carolyn Mahan


Professor, Division of Mathematics & Natural Sciences (Altoona)
Top research keywords: Tamias Striatus, Sciuridae, National Parks, Flying Squirrels, Glaucomys Sabrinus

Tanya Furman


Associate Vice President and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, The Pennsylvania State University
Top research keywords: Mantle, Geochemistry, Basalt, Volcano, Melting

Casey Helgeson


Assistant Research Professor, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute
Top research keywords: Climate Change, Bayesian Epistemology, Organism, Epistemic Significance, Explanandum

Bryan McDonald


Sherwin Early Career Professorship and Associate Professor, History
Top research keywords: Ban, Wilderness, Urban Planning, Human Security, Infectious Disease

Peter Idowu


Assistant Dean for Graduate Studies, Penn State Harrisburg
Top research keywords: Students, Energy Storage, Electrical Engineering, Battery, Storage System

Victoria Ashley Villar


Assistant Professor, Astronomy & Astrophysics
Top research keywords: Merger, Binary Stars, Supernovae, Neutron Stars, LIGO (observatory)

C. Lee Giles


David Reese Professor, College of Information Sciences and Technology
Top research keywords: Digital Libraries, Search Engines, Recurrent Neural Networks, Metadata, Neural Networks

Dana L. Stuchul


Associate Professor, Curriculum & Instruction
Top research keywords: Racial Violence, Liberation, Climate, Literacy, Anxiety

Rebecca Napolitano


Assistant Professor in Architectural Engineering, Architectural Engineering
Top research keywords: Structural Health Monitoring, Photogrammetry, Virtual Reality, Lighthouses, Cracks

Joel Anstrom


Associate Research Professor, Larson Pennsylvania Transportation Institute
Top research keywords: Hybrid Vehicles, Lithium-ion Batteries, Electric Motors, Literature Review, Dynamic Control

Jiawei Gong



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

Alandra Kahl


Associate Teaching Professor of Environmental Engineering (Greater Allegheny)

Tara Felix


Associate Professor, Animal Science
Top research keywords: Zea Mays, Feedlots, Cattle, Carcass Characteristics, Distillers Grains

Justine Lindemann


Assistant Professor of Community Development and Resilience, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: Land Reform, Green Infrastructure, Politics, Community Development, Agricultural Sciences

Amanul Haque


Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Top research keywords: Thin Films, Nanowires, Electron Microscopes, MEMS, Transmission Electron Microscopy

Junjun Yin


Assistant Research Professor, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: Twitter, Mobile Computing, Activity Pattern, Visibility, Big Data

Mark Gagnon


Research Associate, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: Human Resources, Supervisors, Supervisory Personnel, Personnel, Cellular Agriculture

Joshua D. Lambert


Professor, Food Science
Top research keywords: Tea, Polyphenols, Epigallocatechin Gallate, (-)-Epigallocatechin 3-Gallate, Polyphenol

Abhronil Sengupta


Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering
Top research keywords: Spintronics, Neural Networks, Neurons, Deep Neural Networks, Brain

Saurabh Basu


Assistant Professor, Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Top research keywords: Microstructure, Machining, Strain, Plastic Deformation, Textures

Jennifer Gray


Assistant Research Professor, Materials Characterization Lab
Top research keywords: Nanostructures, Epitaxial Growth, Molecules, Substrates, Quantum Dot

Allison Beese


Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Top research keywords: 3D Printers, Austenitic Stainless Steel, Additive, Powders, Lasers

Elizabeth Ransom


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

Alexander Hristov


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

Gregory Ziegler


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

Catherine Nettles Cutter


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

Jon Sweetman


Assistant Research Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management