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Pages in category "Pennsylvania State University faculty" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 651 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State or PSU) is a public state-related land-grant research university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1855 as Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania, [13] Penn State was named the state's first land-grant university eight years later, in 1863.
In 1886, the board of trustees approved the creation of a department of mechanical engineering. Shortly after, Penn State became one of the ten largest engineering schools in the nation. Atherton also expanded the liberal arts and agriculture programs, and as a result, was rewarded with regular appropriations from the state beginning in 1887.
Faculty members have included former diplomats, a Navy Vice Admiral, National Security Council staff, a senior official of both the African Union and the United Nations, an economic development agency director, former CIA officials, a State Department senior counselor, a U.S. Geological Survey chief scientist, and international and arbitration ...
The Penn State Board of Trustees is the 38-member [1] governing body for Pennsylvania State University. Its members include the university's president, the Governor of the Commonwealth , and the state Secretaries of Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources, and Education, as well as a representative for the Governor.
After his two-year stay at Penn State, he was re-elected to the Girard College Presidency, and then to be the president of the American Bible Society. Allen Street in State College, Pennsylvania and Allen Road on the Penn State University Park campus are named in his honor. 3: John Fraser (c. 1823–1878) [6] [7] 1866 – 1868 (2 years)
James Fraser Kasting (born January 2, 1953) is an American geoscientist and Distinguished Professor of Geosciences at Penn State University. Kasting is active in NASA's search for habitable extrasolar planets. [2] [3] He is considered a world leader in the field of planetary habitability, assessing habitable zones around stars. [4]