Upcoming Events

Food Science Reimagined: Feeding the World

"The New American Farmer: Immigration, Race, and the Struggle for Sustainability

“Regulatory Sanctions and Firm Environmental Performances in China” by Xun Cao, Associate professor of Political Science and faculty affiliate of the School of Public Policy, Penn State

"2020 Vision: Christian Cooper, John Muir and the Nature of Green Space.”

Energy and Environmental Economics and Policy Seminar

Zhen Lei, Associate Professor of Energy and Environmental Economics, Penn State

Sarah Walker, Senior Lecturer, Assistant Professor School of Economics, UNSW Business School University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Rebecca Schewe is an Associate Professor of Sociology and a Senior Research Associate in the Center for Policy Research. She received her Ph.D. in sociology and Master's in rural sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After completing a postdoc at Michigan State University's Kellogg Biological Station, she was an Assistant Professor at Mississippi State University before joining Syracuse University's faculty. Becky's research focuses on the relationship between humans and the natural environment. Through interdisciplinary partnerships, her research examines how the state's major social institutions, economy, and community structure our human interactions with ecosystems.

Mohamed Rali Badissy, Assistant Professor of Law, Penn State Dickenson Law

Ashish Tyagi, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management

David Spence, Baker Botts Chair in Law at the University of Texas School of Law; Professor of Business, Government & Society at UT-Austin’s McCombs School of Business Professor Spence’s research and teaching focuses on government regulation of the energy industry: broadly defined to include economic and environmental regulation of the entire energy sector.

Wuyang Hu, Ohio State University Professor and Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics (AEDE) Honors Coordinator, Ohio State University

Nadia Streletskaya, Oregon State University

Catie Hausman, Associate Professor, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy; Research Associate, National Bureau of Economics Research, University of Michigan

Lauren Chenarides, Assistant Professor, Morrison School of Agribusiness, W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University

Damian Adams, Associate Professor, Natural Resource Economics and Policy School of Forest Resources and Conservation Food and Resource Economics Department University of Florida

Ying Bao, Assistant Professor Marketing at Gies College of Business University of Illinois at Urbana and Champaign

Ujjayant Chakravorty, Professor of Economics at Tufts University; Fellow at the Toulouse School of Economics and CESifo. He is co-editor of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management and associate editor of the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control.

Adriana Diaz, Business Development Analyst, ThinkWell

Dr. Dan Azzara, Professor of Food & Agriculture

Kathy Sexsmith, Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology

John Byrnes, Extension Educator, Philadelphia

John Aloysius Zinda is assistant professor in the Department of Global Development at Cornell University. An environmental sociologist, he studies how people create, struggle over, and sometimes resolve environmental concerns. Much of his work has examined how people and landscapes in rural China respond to developmental and environmental interventions around new national parks, afforestation, and agricultural livelihoods. He also examines how people respond to changing flood risk in the United States. His work has appeared in World Development, The China Quarterly, Society & Natural Resources, Geoforum, Rural Sociology, Human Ecology, and The Journal of Peasant Studies.