Draft:List of Pennsylvania State University faculty

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