Penn State Rural Interest Initiative
List of All Members
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| Researcher's Name | Research Interests |
| Adams, Jonathan | Emergency and Disaster Preparedness; Agromedicine |
| Aeschbacherr, Peter | Design & Planning, particularly community design & participatory processes |
| Altman, Naomi | statistical analysis |
| Bagdonis, Jessica | Food Systems, Community, Sustainable Development |
| Baker, Rose | Economic and workforce development |
| Banya, Ahmed | Rural Programs for Youth |
| Bartley, Christy | Youth Development |
| Beachler, Michael | N/A |
| Bengtson, Babs | We are focused on providing multimedia materials to the K-12 classroom in rural areas that have limited connectivity. How do we minimize the digital divide? |
| Bernatowicz, Brenda | Penn State Cooperative Extension Outreach to rural areas of Southwestern Pennsylvania. |
| Bixler, Bonnie | health care |
| Bracey, Karen | Children, Youth and Families |
| Brandt, William | I teach summer inservice workshops that educate rural science teachers about galaxies and cosmology. This helps them to teach their students better. I am also interested in rural outreach more generally. |
| Branstetter, Kathy | Health care |
| Brasier, Kathy | agriculture natural resources/environment community |
| Bridger, Jeffrey | Rural communities |
| Brooks, Robert | N/A |
| Brooks, Karen | Although I work in the Acoustics Program, I am a doctoral student in Adult Education. My interests are primarily in community organizations as units of agency and the interrelationship/interaction of community organizations in building sustainable and healthy communities. |
| Brua, Chas | health-care care access for underserved communities (immigrants, people with low socioeconomic status) |
| Bruce, Stewart | Geographic Information Systems |
| Brummel, Gretchen | Provision of pharmacy services. Provision of pediatric services. |
| Butler, Tom | Rural schools and communities |
| Carpenter, Lee | community, poverty |
| Carroll, John | appropriation of information technology digital divide remote collaboration online community support |
| Chick, Kay | teacher preparation gender issues in education special education social studies education |
| Cigler, Beverly | Fiscal policy Alternative service delivery multicommunity collaboration environmental policy |
| Cilley, Robert | pediatric trauma program medical director |
| Cole, Andrew | I'm the Associate Director of the Center for Watershed Stewardship. The CWS aids local communities in developing watershed stewardship plans through graduate education and training. |
| Coleman, Alisha | rural poverty food insecurity rural work arrangements |
| Condon-Vance, Margaret | Groundwater, engineering, subdivision, elderly re-engagement, elderly special needs for independence & transportation |
| Cook, Jessica | smart growth in rural communities |
| Crum, Robert | Mostly, I'm just curious. I'm a beef farmer in the distressed Appalachian county of Monroe in Ohio. I invest in for-profit remote education providers. My entire teaching load is internet/distance instruction (iMBA) through PSU World Campus. I grew up in the rural area where my farms are located. |
| Curry, William | Chronic disease management; Health literacy |
| Cyran, Stephen | Besides directing the Children's Heart Group, I direct the outreach program for CHG (17 offices throughout central PA) and serve as the Vice Chair for Outreach for the Department of Pediatrics at the Penn State Children's Hospital and Penn State College of Medicine. |
| D'Augelli, Anthony | none |
| Davis, Lisa | rual health agricultural health and safety community and economic development |
| Dawson, Katherine | Working with patients with serious, chronic, life-limiting illness and end of life issues. |
| Day, Rick | Geographic Information Systems, soils, agriculture, septic systems, community development |
| de Coste, Jennifer | My dissertation focuses on secondary public school sex educators in rural environments and how lesbian and gay issues are addressed. |
| De Marco, Allison | Welfare, poverty, and early childhood |
| De Onna, Janetta | workforce development |
| DelliFraine, Jami | children's health and specialty care |
| DeNoble, Donna | Afterschool programs, rural community development, rural schools |
| Depp-Nestlerode, Mary Jo | Economic and Community Development; and Leadership |
| Dodd, Ann | shared leadership for social change |
| Dunbar, JD | Communication and leadership skill development |
| Elavsky, Steriani | physical activity and health; psychosocial determinants and consequences of physical activity; rural women's health; menopause |
| Farmer, Tom | Rural Education; The development and adjustment of rural youth from childhood through the transition to adulthood |
| Filson, Dave | Disaster Education |
| Flanagan, Michael | Trans-disciplinary Medical Education via On-line Rural Outreach |
| Flarend, Richard | I am very much involved in science outreach to schools which are in rural areas. |
| Foley, Henry | N/A |
| Francis, Lori | Childhood Obesity and Cardiovascular Risk |
| Gettins, Christina | Healthcare |
| Gigliotti-Spratt, Diane | Workforce Development |
| Glasmeier, Amy | Poverty |
| Goetz, Stephan | clusters, human capital, land use, income growth, social capital |
| Goodman, JoVictoria | Education Issues and Policies in/for rural areas |
| Greenberg, Mark | Prevention of problem behaviors; Developmental study of rural children; Understanding rural community systems to support the positive development of young people |
| Haigh, Michel | anything regarding communication |
| Hecht, Michael | Adolescent drug prevention. |
| Hendrickson, Robert | N/A |
| Henning, George | Director, Agromedicine Program PRHA |
| Herman, James M. | health care primary care |
| Hessert, Jennifer | N/A |
| Hillemeier, Marianne | Rural/urban disparities in children's health and healthcare use |
| Hirshberg, Alan | Telemedicine Emergency Medicine |
| Hirt, Jennifer | I am interested in written narratives documenting rural life, as well as the role writing plays in rural life. |
| Hufnagel, Pamela | educational opportunities; child care |
| Ivy, Mark | I am interested in providing opportunities for active lifestyles and using recreation and leisure pursuits to reduce incidents of hypokinetic disease. A specific example would be working with landowners to provide community access to riparian areas for walking, biking, fishing, and/or boating. |
| Jablonski, Rita | oral health and rural nursing home residents; better jobs/better care with personal care assistants working in rural communities |
| Jackson, Daney | N/A |
| Jackson, Sr., Dr. Andrew | Economic and Community Development Issues Multicultural Education and Diversity Issues Environmental Research and Urban Education Issues |
| Jankoski, Jo | Poverty, rural mental health |
| Jenkins, Gaye | rural community capacity building; learning in rural community organizations |
| Jensen, Leif | Rural poverty Rural employment issues Rural minorities Rural elders Immigration to rural areas |
| Jensen, Eric | I study rural poverty. |
| Johnson, Andrea | Diabetes research |
| Johnson, Ernest | Research program development including the promotion of sponsored research funding opportunities and the identification of collaborators for multidisciplinary research programs. |
| Johnson, David | Rural Mental Health Child Neglect and Abuse in Rural and Urban areas |
| Johnson, Samuel | Rural Older Adult Mental Health |
| Jones, Arthur | economic and workforce development |
| Kallgren, Carl A. | Testing a new theoretical model of social intervention. Applied research. Healthy youth development, Teenage pregnancy prevention |
| Kanzleiter, Linda | ? |
| Karchner, Kathy | personal interests, gain ideas to develop conferences/workshops for professionals |
| Kelsey, Tim | Community development; economic development; public policy; outreach |
| Kerstetter, Deborah | tourism development sense of place women and sense of entitlement |
| King, Donna | Teacher Education Indigenous Knowledge |
| Kletchka, Dana | Because I work at an educational institution that serves much of Central PA, I am interested in this initiative and research on rural populations in general. |
| Kluhsman, Brenda | Cancer prevention and control; cancer survivorship and quality of life |
| Knoedler, Alicia | Everything |
| Kolanowski, Ann | Distance education for geriatric nursing educators |
| Labenberg, Jim | public and mental health hiv - access to care health care economics |
| Laughner, Jonathan | entrepreneurship and economic development |
| Lazarus, Philip | cancer, epidemiology, carcinogenic mechanisms |
| Lengerich, Eugene | cancer prevention and control; community-based research; disease surveillance; mapping and GIS; multilevel modeling |
| Leway, Susan | Outreach |
| Lewis, Vicki | How to reach rural audiences; how to design programs that meet the needs of rural audiences |
| Litz, Jennifer | NA |
| Loughran, Thomas | building rural networks for population research in cancer |
| Luloff, Al | rural community development; impacts of growth and change on natural resource use; rural well-being |
| Lybecker, Donna | environmental issues--include many things within rural areas. Most of my focus has been with water and issues on the US/Mexico border |
| Lyons, Josy | Continuous Quality Improvement and Post-approval Review Programs at the Office for Research Protections |
| Mackley, Heath | I'm interested in access to appropriate cancer treatment in rural Pennsylvania |
| Maguire, Linda | Public and Private education in rural PA; Revitalization of small rural communities in PA |
| Mahar, Jan | Digital Divide in IT |
| Maretzki, Audrey | Food Security/Hunger Health Care Access Community Development |
| Marshall, Amy | Domestic violence and family/couples distress. |
| Mastrofski, Jennifer | Justice-related areas that focus on families in rural settings (health, legal assistance, etc.) |
| Maurie, kelly | land use, geospatial information |
| McGee, Winifred | Rural Economic Development (Entrepreneurship) Shared Kitchen/Incubators |
| McLaughlin, Diane | rural community development; education, labor markets and employment; rural families and youth; rural poverty and inequality |
| McManus, Kim | Youth Development Leadership |
| Mendum, Ruth | sociology of agriculture, biodiversity |
| Miller, Carla | Research and health care for rural populations |
| Mincemoyer, Scott | Diabetes and Obesity Care |
| Mincemoyer, Claudia | Positive youth development |
| Mischler, John | Agriculture's impact on the environment |
| Morais, Duarte | Rural tourism |
| Morgen, Sandra | N/A |
| Moyer, Wendy | healthcare |
| Myatt James, Ann | alternative agriculture, economic development |
| Nachman, Anna Marie | N/A |
| Namey, Joanne | Cancer Research and Prevention Tobacco Research and prevention |
| Neil, Amy | I helped to promote the event and I may take photos. |
| Neureiter, Kathryn | grant funding and demographic information to support that funding |
| Osevala, Mary Louise | Increasing access in rural areas for patients with heart failure by advance practice nurses traveling to primary care sites to offer their skills to areas that may not have specialty care access. |
| Passmore, David | Economic modeling, forecasting, and simulation; workforce analysis. |
| Perkins, Daniel | Prevention science; Informal science education; Youth Development |
| Prentice, Rita | health care access |
| Pryor, Ginger | Environmental issues related to proper land use, environmentally friendly gardening Education of youth on environmental issue |
| Purrington, Andrew | Outdoor Recreation; Park and Recreation Area Planning and Management |
| Rapano, John | community development, rural aging, early care and education program policy, human service collaboration, social conditions in rural counties, and mental wellness. |
| Reichwein, Raymond | Stroke care [acute stroke therapies, stroke prevention, stroke rehab, networks] |
| Ricketts, Kristina | Rural community leadership and development |
| Rosson, Mary Beth | Social and technical infrastructure for community networks |
| Rusnak, Cecilia | Landscape history and character; community design and planning; transportation corridors |
| Ryan, Andrea | well-being of rural families; rural youth development; intersection of rural families and their communities |
| Sather, Anita | Education and financial literacy--in particular educating students and families about financing a college education. |
| Schafft, Kai | education; connection between rural schools and communities, community social and economic well-being, rural poverty, residential mobility |
| Schetter, Susann E. | Mammography - Increasing Breast Cancer screening rates in rural areas |
| Schrauf, Bob | Health Literacy; Immigrants |
| Schubart, Jane | cancer survivorship, symptom management, quality of life |
| Schultz, Chriss | education |
| Segilia, Joseph | program developement economic development |
| Setia, Monika | Access to long term care in rural areas; workforce issues of long term care paraprofessionals in rural areas. |
| Shea, Dennis | health policy |
| Sinz, Elizabeth | Teamwork training for healthcare providers at all levels and patient education using simulation modalities. |
| Skowron, Elizabeth | child maltreatment |
| Smith, Lindsay | community development; women in agriculture; natural resources |
| Smith, Carol A. | Preventive health care in rural areas |
| Smith, Stephen | Economic and Community Development; Changing employment structures |
| Smutz, Wayne | Community Engagment |
| Strong, James | Telemedicine/teleophthalmology. Diabetic Retinopathy. Retinal imaging. |
| Swistock, Bryan | private water systems and rural health |
| Tanner, Don | Economic Development Community Development |
| Terndrup, Tom | emergency medicine; emergency preparedness; resuscitation; pandemic influenza; disaster preparedness |
| Thomson, Joan | food system communications interface with economic/community development |
| Thorndyke, Luanne | Women's Health; Rural Women's Health |
| Tribe, Lorena | Molecular level theoretical research in soil - herbicide interactions. Fate of xenobiotics in agricultural areas. Bioremediation. |
| Trussel, John | Financial management and accounting of rural hospitals and local governments. I received a grant from the Center for Rural Pennsylvania to study financial distress in rural hospitals in PA. |
| Tuck, Elizabeth | Planning, Community Development, Neighborhood Infrastructure, Social Program Connectiveness |
| Tyworth, Stephanie | rural health |
| Ural, Serdar | Prenatal care |
| Veilleux, Bob | Economic Development Community Development Tourism Entrepreneurship Rural Ag Development |
| Wagner, Phillip | Sustainable agriculture, Ag Economics, Community and Economic Development |
| Wardrop, Denice | As Associate Director of the Penn State Coooperative Wetlands Center, we study the impact of human activities on wetland and stream ecosystems |
| Weaver, Robert D. | Economic growth strategies, SME performance |
| Weisman, Carol | Women's health, health care, and policy; rural women's health |
| Willits, Fern K. (Bunny) | social well-being community development |
| Wilson, Deborah | Health issues for rural Pennsylvania. |
| Wilson, Robin | health and biomarkers |
| Wolf, Mary | I am interested in learning more about social class in relation to rural populations in PA schools. |
| Youtz, Susan | Access to rural health care Issues of cost and qualty of health care for rural citizens |
| Zdenek, Brad | Community Development and Resource Management |
| Zurlo, John | HIV infection in rural settings |
