Office of the Dean

Office of the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education
Office of the Associate Dean for Graduate Education and Research

Academic Departments

Energy and Mineral Engineering (EME)
Yaw Yeboah, Department Head

Department of Geography (GEOG)
Karl Zimmerer, Department Head

Department of Geosciences (GEOSC)
Tim Bralower , Department Head

Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MATSE)
Gary Messing, Department Head

Department of Meteorology (METEO)
William Brune, Department Head

Institutes

The Alliance for Earth Sciences, Engineering, and Development in Africa (AESEDA)
Rob Crane, Director

EMS Energy Institute
Chunshan Song, Director

Research in the areas of carbon materials, clean fuels and catalysis, petroleum and natural gas, sustainable energy, and thermal and electrochemical energy.

Earth and Environmental Systems Institute
Susan Brantley , Director

Research in the areas of Earth system science, environmental chemistry and geochemistry, integrated regional assesment, modeling Earth system history, natural hazards, land use and regional planning, and environmental computing.

e-Education Institute
David DiBiase, Director

A community of EMS faculty members, staff, and students working together to improve the quality and accessability of EMS education through the imaginative use of networked computing.

Centers

Earth System Science Center (ESSC)
Susan Brantley , Director

The Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium
Lisa Brown, Director

Penn State Astrobiology Research Center (PSARC)
Hiroshi Ohmoto, Director

Center for Integrated Regional Assessment (CIRA)
C. Gregory Knight, Principal Investigator

Center for Advanced Materials
Digby Macdonald, Director

Center for Environmental Chemistry and Geochemistry (CECG)
Susan Brantley, Director

Gould Center for Geography Education and Outreach
David DiBiase, Director

Natural Hazards Center
Kevin Furlong, Director

GeoVISTA Center
Alan MacEachren, Director