Directory
Lori Francis
Professor of Biobehavioral Health
Early childhood exposure to adversity and cardiometabolic risk/resilience; community engaged research; plant-human health interactions; human stress response and resilience; living classrooms and nature learning; forest therapy and impacts on children who experience(d) adversity
Sagan Friant
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Evolutionary anthropology of human health, disease ecology, nutrition, socio-ecological systems, bushmeat hunting, Nigeria.
Ben Fry
Associate Teaching Professor of Biobehavioral Health
Neurobiology of learning and memory, specifically as it pertains to the circuit-specific role of dopamine in motivated behavior, pre-clinical models of schizophrenia, and the use of Pavlovian learning theory to understand the manner in which the brain processes incoming sensory information and gives rise to such phenomena as hallucinations.
Erika Ganda
Emphasis Area Representative, Microbiome Sciences; Associate Professor of Food Animal Microbiomes
Developing practical ways to leverage the microbiome to improve food safety and improve food production animals' production efficiency.
Scott Gartner
Director, Penn State School of International Affairs; Professor of International Affairs
Lisa Gatzke-Kopp
Professor of Human Development and Family Studies
Developmental neuroscience of psychopathology with a focus on aggression, hyperactivity, and substance abuse; relationship between experience, environment, and neurobiological dysfunction.