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The following is a List of Pennsylvania State University faculty, including administrators, professors, and coaches:
Faculty and coaches[edit]
- 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
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