Draft:List of Pennsylvania State University faculty

Draft article not currently submitted for review.

This is a draft Articles for creation (AfC) submission. It is not currently pending review. While there are no deadlines, abandoned drafts may be deleted after six months. To edit the draft click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.

To be accepted, a draft should:

Show the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article by using multiple sources that meet four criteria. The sources should be (1) reliable (2) secondary (3) independent of the subject (4) talk about the subject in some depth. For some topics, there are alternative criteria.
Be written from a neutral point of view
Respect copyright and do not plagiarize. Do not copy-paste.

It is strongly discouraged to write about yourself, your business or employer. If you do so, you must declare it.

Where to get help

If you need help editing or submitting your draft, please ask us a question at the AfC Help Desk or get live help from experienced editors. These venues are only for help with editing and the submission process, not to get reviews.
If you need feedback on your draft, or if the review is taking a lot of time, you can try asking for help on the talk page of a relevant WikiProject. Some WikiProjects are more active than others so a speedy reply is not guaranteed.

How to improve a draft

Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia – a basic overview on how to edit Wikipedia.
Help:Wikitext – how to use the markup
Help:Referencing for beginners – how to include references
Wikipedia:Article development – how to develop your article
Wikipedia:Writing better articles – how to improve your article
Wikipedia:Verifiability – make sure your article includes reliable third-party sources

You can also browse Wikipedia:Featured articles and Wikipedia:Good articles to find examples of Wikipedia's best writing on topics similar to your proposed article.

Improving your odds of a speedy review

To improve your odds of a faster review, tag your draft with relevant WikiProject tags using the button below. This will let reviewers know a new draft has been submitted in their area of interest. For instance, if you wrote about a female astronomer, you would want to add the Biography, Astronomy, and Women scientists tags.

Add tags to your draft

Editor resources

Easy tools: Citation bot (help) | Advanced: Fix bare URLs

Last edited by Liz (talk | contribs) 0 seconds ago. (Update)

Submit the draft for review!

An editor has marked this as a promising draft and requests that, should it go unedited for six months, G13 deletion be postponed, either by making a dummy/minor edit to the page, or by improving and submitting it for review.
Last edited by Liz (talk | contribs) 0 seconds ago. (Update)

The following is a List of Pennsylvania State University faculty, including administrators, professors, and coaches:

Faculty and coaches

Gregory Ain, architect and former Department of Architecture dean
Richard Alley, glaciologist and climate scientist
Paul Amato, sociologist
George Andrews, mathematician
Henry P. Armsby, agriculturalist chemist and inventor of animal respiration calorimeter
Larry Catá Backer, Cuban-American legal and international relations scholar
Stephen Barrett, psychiatrist and webmaster of Quackwatch
John Barth, novelist and short story author
Samuel Preston Bayard, folklorist, expert on fife and fiddle tunes
Leann Birch, developmental psychologist and director of Center for Childhood Obesity Research
Chrystelle Trump Bond, dancer, choreographer, and dance historian
Christian M. M. Brady, targumist and former Schreyer Honors College dean
Cynthia Brewer, professor and Department of Geography chairperson who contributed to cartographic visualization and the invention of ColorBrewer
Simon J. Bronner, folklorist and professor emeritus of American Studies
Velvet Brown, tuba soloist, recording artist, and is associate professor of music
O. Richard Bundy, director, Penn State Blue Band
Donald Byrne, coach of the first United States varsity chess team
John M. Carroll, human–computer interaction specialist
Paul F. Clark, professor of labor studies and chairman of Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations
Haskell Curry, combinatory logic specialist and former professor
Paul DeMaine, founder, Computer Science Department
Norman C. Deno, chemistry professor and seed germination researcher
Jose Dolores Fuentes, atmospheric chemist and professor of meteorology
William K. George, fluid dynamicist
Lee Giles, co-creator of CiteSeer, David Reese Professor of Information Sciences and Technology, and former Air Force Office of Scientific Research program manager
Kathryn Gines, professor of philosophy
Mary Godfrey, assistant professor of art education and university's first African American faculty member
Joseph Heller, author, Catch-22
Joshua Melko, professor of chemistry at the University of South Florida
Vasant Honavar, professor, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and bioinformatics researcher and educator, former Program Director, National Science Foundation
Ivan Illich, polymath: author, philosopher, and polemicist
Mary Jane Irwin, computer scientist, National Academy of Science member
Philip Jenkins, professor of religious studies and writer on modern religious controversies
James Kasting, atmospheric chemist and astrobiologist, aka "Dr. Habitable Zone"
Gary N. Knoppers, head of the Department of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies; wrote a lengthy and prominent two-volume commentary on I Chronicles
Bohdan Kulakowski, professor of mechanical engineering; head of the Pennsylvania Transportation Institute (PTI) from 1992 to 2003
Alan MacEachren, professor of geography, notable for his contributions to geographic visualization
Michael E. Mann, professor of atmospheric science, IPCC lead author, known for the hockey stick graph
Mark D. Maughmer, developed first successful winglet designs for gliding competitions; aerodynamicist; author
John D. McCarthy, professor of sociology, notable for his contributions to social movement studies and resource mobilization theory
Webb Miller, one of the pioneers of computational biology; co-creator of BLAST, a research tool used by geneticists worldwide
Michael G. Moore, pioneer of online learning and theory of distance education; listed (Routledge, 2017) as one of "most influential thinkers about education of all time"
Erwin Wilhelm Müller, inventor of the field emission microscope, field ion microscope, and atom probe; first person to view atoms
Robert Neffson, artist
Masatoshi Nei, theoretical population geneticist and evolutionary biologist
Jon Nese, lecturer in meteorology and former Weather Channel personality
Dipanjan Pan, Dorothy Foehr Huck & J. Lloyd Huck Chair professor in nanomedicine
Joe Paterno, head football coach, 1966–2011
Rene Portland, head women's basketball coach, 1980–2007
C. R. Rao, 2002 National Medal of Science-winning statistician
Frank Ritter
Theodore Roethke, 1954 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry recipient
Russ Rose, Women's volleyball head coach since 1979 and university professor
Mary Beth Rosson
Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Empire Falls; his novel Straight Man was drawn from his experiences teaching at Penn State Altoona
Saad Ali Shire, Minister of finance, Somaliland
Cael Sanderson, 2004 Olympic gold medalist in freestyle wrestling at 84 kg; current head college wrestling coach
Jerry Sandusky, former assistant football coach 1969–1999, a period during which he committed crimes that led to the Penn State child sex abuse scandal
Kenneth Bernard Schade, sexual offender and founder of Singing Boys of Pennsylvania
Lee Smolin, theoretical physicist
William Tenn (pen name of Philip Klass), science fiction writer
David Titley professor of meteorology, former NOAA chief operating office, U.S. Navy rear admiral and chief oceanographer
Susan Trolier-McKinstry, materials scientist
Alan Walker, paleoanthropologist
James Z. Wang
William C. Waterhouse, mathematician and two-time recipient of Lester R. Ford Award
Frank C. Whitmore, pioneering organic chemist who described the mechanism of carbocation reactions
James Wines, artist and founder of SITE
Aleksander Wolszczan, discovered first extrasolar planets and pulsar planets
Qiming Zhang, electrical engineering and materials science and engineering professor
Jerry Zolten, music historian and producer of Grammy Award-winning gospel and roots music albums

Faculty and coaches

See also