- Professor of Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics
- Co-Director, Center for Economic and Community Development
- Adjunct Research Fellow, Australian Center for Agriculture and Law, University of New England, Human Dimensions of Natural Resources and the Environment Graduate Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Agricultural Economics and Policy
- Development Economics
- Public Sector Economics
- Community and Regional Economics
- Community and Rural Development
- Comparative Rural Policy
- Institutional and Behavioral Economics
- Resource and Environmental Economics
- Public Scholarship and Civic Engagement in Higher Education
- Email talter@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-8640
- Administrative Support Assistant for the Center for Economic and Community Development
- Email azg5380@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-3536
- Professor, Intergenerational Programs and Aging
Areas of Expertise
- Developing & evaluating intergenerational initiatives in diverse settings.
- Training Extension educators and other professionals in intergenerational programming.
- Establishing intergenerational strategies for civic engagement and environmental design.
- Email msk15@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-7871
- Associate Head, Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education
- Professor of Agricultural Economics
- Community, Environment, and Development Program Coordinator
- Co-Director, Center for Economic & Community Development
- Teaching Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Environmental Governance
- Community Development
- Landscape Systems Design
- Professor of Youth and Family Resiliency and Policy
- Principal Scientist and Founder, Clearinghouse for Military Family Readiness
- Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center, Affiliate Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Youth and Family Resiliency
- Service Members, Veterans and Military Families
- Dissemination and Implementation Science
- Evidence-based Programs
- Applied Research and Evaluations
- Community Collaboration
- Applied Research Educator, Center for Economic and Community Development
Areas of Expertise
- Secondary Data Analysis
- Public Policy Analysis
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
- Applied Research- Community and Economic Development
- Community Engagement
- Professor of Rural Sociology, Demography, and Public Health Sciences
Areas of Expertise
- Environmental demography
- Spatial demography
- Socio-environmental systems
- Population-infrastructure dynamics
- Computational and spatial analysis
- Email gchi@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-8245
- Professor emerita of Rural Sociology and Demography
Areas of Expertise
- rural poverty and livelihoods
- spatial inequality
- gender and development
- gender, disaster, and climate change
- Email art14@psu.edu
- Office 814-954-2735
- Associate Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics
- Graduate Program Director: Energy, Environmental, and Food Economics (EEFE)
Areas of Expertise
- Environmental Economics
- Urban and Land Use Economics
- Applied Econometrics
- Nonmarket Valuation
- Policy Analysis
