Huck Life Sciences Millennium Science Complex Entrance

Communications & Engagement

Core Facilities

Craig Praul

  • Director of Core Facilities

Facilities & Safety

For assistance from Huck Facilities, please email one of these addresses:

  • Huckfacilities@psu.edu
    All general facilities requests – equipment, repairs, etc., or if you are unsure where to send your request.
  • Huckaccess@psu.edu
    All access requests, including keys and card swipes. A separate request must be submitted for each individual. An attached, completed Facilities Access Authorization Request (FAAR) form is required.
  • HuckAV@psu.edu
    Requests for help with Huck Managed Conference rooms in MSC, LSB or Wartik and/or training on or setting up AV equipment (room reservations are first made in 25-Live).

Madison Beucler

  • Facilities Representative

Scott Boor

  • Collaboration & Conferencing

Ashley Gallagher

  • Facilities Representative

Nathan Hamm

  • Facilities Representative

Michael Uchneat

  • Director of Facilities

Oversight and coordination of all facility issues for the Huck Institutes buildings including renovation, space planning,. . .

Graduate Programs

Charles Anderson

  • Chair, Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Plant Biology
  • Professor of Biology

In vivo imaging of plant cell wall dynamics. Molecular genetic analysis of genes involved in cell growth. Cell wall. . .

Sonia Cavigelli

  • Chair, Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Neuroscience
  • Associate Professor of Biobehavioral Health

Development of temperament/personality; relationship of temperament and social status to stress and health; individual. . .

Dana Coval-Dinant

  • Graduate Program Office Coordinator and Supervisor

Oversight of the six Huck inter-college graduate degree programs and supervision of day-to-day operations of graduate office. . .

Jason Kaye

  • Chair, Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Ecology
  • Professor of Soil Biogeochemistry

Ecosystem ecology; global change biology; biogeochemistry of nitrogen and carbon cycling in managed and unmanaged ecosystems.

Donna Korzick

  • Director of Graduate Training Initiatives
  • Professor of Physiology and Kinesiology

My research is focused on aging, post-menopausal women, and cardiac ischemia reperfusion injury using animal models. We are. . .

David Koslicki

  • Chair, Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Bioinformatics and Genomics
  • Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Biology

Developing efficient algorithms to extract insight from high-throughput sequencing data.

Tasha Marasco

  • Academic Program Coordinator: Plant Biology
  • Integrative and Biomedical Physiology

Jean Pierce

  • Assistant Training Grant Administrator
  • Academic Program and Training Grant Coordinator: Ecology

Process paperwork, including qualifying and comprehensive exam requests, thesis defense requests, and committee forms;. . .

David Puts

  • Huck Associate Director for Graduate Education
  • Professor of Anthropology

Understanding both the endocrine mechanisms underlying human sexual differentiation and the evolution of these mechanisms,. . .

Melissa Rolls

  • Lead Huck Graduate Chair
  • Chair, Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Biosciences

Subcellular compartmentalization of neurons. The cellular basis of neuronal polarity and neuronal responses to injury. . .

Greg Shearer

  • Chair, Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Integrative and Biomedical Physiology
  • Professor of Nutrition and Physiology

We seek to understand disease-related functional changes in the context of global changes in lipid mediators (bioactive. . .

Connie Smith

  • Training Grant Specialist

Connie provides management of training grants in the Huck Institutes by performing a variety of processes including trainee. . .

Natasha Tirko

  • Director, Master of Biotechnology Degree Program
  • Associate Teaching Professor

Cassie Vomero

  • Academic Program Coordinator: Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Biosciences
  • Neuroscience: Biotechnology Masters

Information Technology

Operations

Melinda Cain

  • Assistant to the Director

Emily Martell

  • Managing Director

Responsible for Huck business administration and operations management

Rebecca Stoner

  • Administrative Assistant, Research Operations

Mary Waechter

  • Assistant Director of Core Facilities