Featured academics
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Christina Grozinger
Grozinger studies the social behaviour and health of bees, linking genomics, landscape ecology and climate data to explain pollinator declines. Her team's decision-support tools, such as Beescape, help growers, land managers and beekeepers create pollinator-friendly landscapes, and she directs Penn State's interdisciplinary Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences.
Clive Randall
Randall invented the cold sintering process, which densifies ceramics at drastically reduced temperatures and opens routes to lower-energy manufacturing of electronics and solid-state batteries. Directing Penn State's Materials Research Institute, he coordinates cross-disciplinary collaborations with industry that translate electroceramics research into energy storage and dielectric applications.
Troy Ott
Ott leads Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences and the Pennsylvania Agricultural Experiment Station, overseeing research and extension that reach farms across the Commonwealth. A reproductive biologist, his work on early pregnancy and immune function in livestock underpins strategies to reduce embryo loss and improve fertility in dairy and beef herds.