Affiliated Researchers: Application

Theodore R. Alter

Professor, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: Community Development, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Tax Capitalization, Performance Evaluation

Cynthia Brewer

Department Head, Geography
Top research keywords: Symbol, Evaluation, Labeling, Hydrography, Geographical Information System

Ken Tamminga

Distinguished Professor, Landscape Architecture
Top research keywords: Rivers, River, Learning, Climate Change, Sustainable Development

Laura Guertin

Professor, Penn State Brandywine
Top research keywords: Student, Carbonate, Literacy, Sequence Boundary, Pliocene

Mehdi Kiani

Dorothy Quiggle Career Development Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering
Top research keywords: Wireless Power Transfer, Inductive Power Transmission, Ultrasonics, Power Management, Transducers

Melik Demirel

Professor, Engineering Science and Mechanics
Top research keywords: Proteins, Protein, Liquid Film, Thin Films, Polymers

S. Shyam Sundar

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

Xiaojun "Lance" Lian

Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Top research keywords: Pluripotent Stem Cells, Stem Cells, Cardiac Myocytes, Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, Catenins

Adri van Duin

Distinguished Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Top research keywords: Molecular Dynamics, Field Theory (physics), Simulation, Force, Computer Simulation

Huanyu "Larry" Cheng

Associate Professor and Dorothy Quiggle Career Development Professor in Engineering, Engineering Science and Mechanics
Top research keywords: Electronic Equipment, Graphene, Mechanics, Skin, Substrates

Cunjiang Yu

Associate Professor, Engineering Science and Mechanics
Top research keywords: Electronic Equipment, Skin, Strain, Electronics, Resonators

Alandra Kahl

Associate Teaching Professor of Environmental Engineering (Greater Allegheny)

Robert Crane

Professor, Geography
Top research keywords: General Circulation Model, Sea Ice, Downscaling, Climate, Ice

Daniel Brent

Associate Professor, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: Social Comparison, Willingness To Pay, Water Use, Stormwater, Conservation Programs

Carter Hunt

Associate Professor, Anthropology
Top research keywords: Tourism, Ecotourism, Resident, Nature-based Tourism, Tourism Development

Stephen Chmely

Assistant Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Top research keywords: Lignin, Catalysts, Biomass, Stereolithography, Ligands

Katherine Zipp

Associate Professor, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: Energy Crops, Ecosystem Services, Invasive Species, Bioenergy, Landowners

Heather Preisendanz

Associate Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Top research keywords: Drug Products, Wastewater, Nutrients, Impurities, Runoff

Robert Beelman

Professor Emeritus of Food Science; Director, Center for Plant and Mushroom Foods for Health
Top research keywords: Nutritional and medicinal properties of mushrooms, Antioxidants-selenium and ergothioneine, Vitamin D-enrichment of mushrooms

Robin Brandt

Professor in the Agriculture department

Mary Ann Bruns

Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Soil, Manure, Dairy Manure, Odorants, Bacteria

Brian Black

Division Head and Distinguished Professor, History, Division of Arts & Humanities (Altoona)
Top research keywords: Oil, Petroleum, Oil Boom, Economic Planning, World War I

Nikhil Menon

Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, School of Science, Engineering & Technology (Harrisburg)
Top research keywords: Automated Vehicle, Autonomous Vehicles, Vehicle, Statistical Analysis, Traffic

Richard Ciocci

Associate Professor, School of Science, Engineering & Technology (Harrisburg)
Top research keywords: Lead-free Solders, Lead, Electronics Industry, Students, Naphthalene

Richard Stehouwer

Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Soil, Soils, Trace Elements, Nutrients, Compost

Nilanjan Ray Chaudhuri

Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering
Top research keywords: Damping, Farms, Phasor Measurement Units, Electric Power Systems, Electric Potential

Douglas Werner

John L. and Genevieve H. McCain Chair Professor, Electrical Engineering
Top research keywords: Metamaterials, Antennas, Lenses, Frequency Selective Surfaces, Genetic Algorithms

Catherine Nettles Cutter

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

Anand Sivasubramaniam

Distinguished Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
Top research keywords: Data Storage Equipment, Servers, Costs, Computer Hardware, Scheduling

George Young

Professor, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science
Top research keywords: Boundary Layer, Synthetic Aperture Radar, Convection, Weather, Forecast

Sean Brennan

Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Top research keywords: Robots, Wheelchairs, Simulators, Robotics, Road Vehicles

Tonya Peeples

Harold and Inge Marcus Dean, College of Engineering
Top research keywords: Bioconversion, Extremophiles, Methanocaldococcus, Hydrolysis, Biocatalysis

Vasant Honavar

Professor and Edward Frymoyer Chair of Information Sciences and Technology, College of Information Sciences and Technology
Top research keywords: Classifiers, Proteins, Ontology, Learning Algorithms, Classifier

Susan Sinnott

Department Head and Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Top research keywords: Molecular Dynamics, Simulation, Many-Body Potential, Density Functional Theory, Computer Simulation

Kenneth Davis

Professor, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science
Top research keywords: Boundary Layer, Carbon, Carbon Dioxide, Troposphere, Net Ecosystem Exchange