Affiliated Researchers: Social Environment

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

Displaying 121 search result(s) for Social Environment.

Frederico Fonseca


Associate Professor, College of Information Sciences and Technology
Top research keywords: Ontology, Geographic Information, Information Systems, Geographic Information System, Ontology-driven

Louisa Holmes


Associate Professor, Geography
Top research keywords: Older Adults, Young Adults, Narcotic Drugs, San Francisco Bay Area, San Francisco

Melissa Wright


Department Head, Geography
Top research keywords: Mexico, Feminist, Ciudades, Femicide, USA

Laura Y. Cabrera


Associate Professor, Engineering Science and Mechanics
Top research keywords: Deep Brain Stimulation, Ethical Issues, Psychiatrists, Parkinson's Disease, Neuroethics

Ryan Thombs


Assistant Professor, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: Carbon Dioxide, United States, Income Inequality, CO2 Emissions, Economic Growth

Lee Ahern


Associate Professor, Advertising and Public Relations
Top research keywords: Environmental Advertising, Communication Campaign, Advertising, National Geographic Magazine, Narrative

Dennis Shea


Associate Dean, College of Health and Human Development
Top research keywords: Nursing Home, Medicare, Nursing Homes, Mental Health Service, Employers

Hong Wu


Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture
Top research keywords: Green Stormwater Infrastructure, China, Public Perception, Prescribed Fire, Sponge City

Sheri A. Berenbaum


Professor, Psychology
Top research keywords: Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia, Androgens, Sex Characteristics, Gonadal Steroid Hormones, Spatial Navigation

Belén Noroña


Assistant Professor of Geography

Aparna Parikh


Assistant Teaching Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Asian Studies

Jennifer Van Hook


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

James Mutunga


Assistant Research Professor

Erik Foley


Director of Sustainability, Smeal College of Business

Leland Glenna


Professor, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: USA, Scientists, Genetically Modified Crops, University Research, Agricultural Biotechnology

Rebecca Napolitano


Assistant Professor in Architectural Engineering, Architectural Engineering
Top research keywords: Masonry Structure, Structural Health Monitoring, Historic Structures, Masonry Structures, Masonry Building

Jennifer Baka


Associate Professor and John T. Ryan, Jr. Faculty Fellow, College of Earth & Mineral Sciences
Top research keywords: Biofuel, Wasteland, Hydraulic Fracturing, India, USA

Stephanie Buechler



Top research keywords: Mexico, Climate Change, Feminist Political Ecology, Environmental Degradation, Sonora

Ebony Creswell


Ph.D. Student

Alan MacEachren


Professor, Geography
Top research keywords: Visualization, Map Symbols, Geographic Information Systems, Cartography, Decision Making

Deborah Ehrenthal


Professor, Biobehavioral Health
Top research keywords: Wisconsin, Medicaid, Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes, Confidence Interval, United States

Lorraine Jones


Research Assistant, EnvironMentors

Frans Padt


Teaching Professor

Janelle Larson


Professor, Division of Engineering, Business & Computing (Berks)
Top research keywords: Access To Credit, Developing World, Teaching Innovation, Informal Sector, Institutional Factors

Karen Page Winterich


Professor, Marketing
Top research keywords: Moral Identity, Brand Attitude, Power Distance Belief, Self-construal, Self-Construals

Timothy W. Kelsey


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

Joshua Smyth


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

Asher Rosinger


Associate Professor, Biobehavioral Health
Top research keywords: Water Insecurity, Tsimane, Household Water Insecurity, NHANES, Food Insecurity

Lindsay Fernández-Rhodes


Associate Professor, Biobehavioral Health
Top research keywords: Genetics, Latino, Hispanic Community, Genomics, Hispanic Or Latino

Wilson Brown


Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology, School of Humanities & Social Sciences (Behrend)
Top research keywords: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms, Severe Mental Illness, Mental Illness

Taylor Bishop Scott


Associate Research Professor, Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center (PRC)
Top research keywords: Politicians, Research Use, Evidence-based Policy, Policy Making, Use Of Research Evidence

Mark Ortiz


Assistant Professor, Department of Geography

Natalie Boyle


Assistant Research Professor, Genomics of Social Behavior and Bee Health, Entomology
Top research keywords: Apoidea, Osmia Lignaria, Pollinator, Hymenoptera, Megachilidae

Erica Smithwick


Distinguished Professor, Geography
Top research keywords: Climate Change, Pinus, Carbon Sink, Pennsylvania, Prescribed Fire

Tess Russo


Assistant Professor and Rudy L. Slingerland Early Career Professorship, Geosciences
Top research keywords: Groundwater, Water Management, Aquifer, Shale, Modeling

Manzhu Yu


Assistant Professor, Geography
Top research keywords: Dust Storm, Particular Matter 2.5, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Spatiotemporal

Kimberly Van Meter


Assistant Professor, Geography
Top research keywords: Water Quality, Eutrophication, Groundwater, Mississippi, N Input