Graduate Faculty

Lynne McLandsborough, Head of Department, Professor, B.A., University of Miami, Ohio, 1986; M.S., Minnesota, 1989; Ph.D., 1993.

Lili He, Graduate Program Director, Professor, B.S., Zhejiang University, China, 2004; M.S., 2006; Ph.D., Missouri, 2009.

Eric A. Decker, Professor, B.S., Pennsylvania State, 1982; M.S., Washington State, 1985; Ph.D., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1988.

John Gibbons, Associate Professor, B.S., Keene State, 2005; Ph.D., Vanderbilt, 2012.

Lutz Grossmann, Assistant Professor, B.S. University of Hohenheim, Germany, 2012; M.S., 2015; Ph.D., 2019

Amanda Kinchla, Extension Associate Professor, B.S., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1998; M.S., Rutgers, 2005.

Charmaine K.W. Koo, Lecturer, Chief Undergraduate Advisor, B.S., University of British Columbia, Canada, 2011; Ph.D. Massachusetts at Amherst, 2016.

Jiakai Lu, Assistant Professor, B.S., Shanghai Jiaotong University, China, 2008; M.S., Purdue, 2013; Ph.D., 2014.

D. Julian McClements, Distinguished Professor, B.S., Leeds, England, 1985; Ph.D., 1988.

Matthew D. Moore, Assistant Professor, B.S., Cornell, 2010; Ph.D., North Carolina State, 2016.

Alissa Nolden, Assistant Professor, B.S., Massachusetts at Amherst, 2011; M.S., Pennsylvania State, 2013; Ph.D., 2016.

Yeonhwa Park, F.J. Francis Endowed Chair, Professor, B.S., Seoul National University, Korea, 1988; M.S., 1990; Ph.D., Wisconsin, 1996.

David Sela, Associate Professor, B.S., New York at New Paltz, 2003; M.S., California at Davis, 2006; Ph.D. 2010.

Peiyi Shen, Lecturer, B.S., Nanchang University, China, 2009; M.S., 2012; Ph.D., Massachusetts at Amherst, 2018.

Hang Xiao, Professor, B.E., Ocean University of China, 1996; Ph.D., Wisconsin, 2004.

Adjunct/Associate Faculty

Jochen Weiss, Professor at University of Hohenheim, B.S., Universitat Karlsruhe, Germany, 1991; M.S., 1996; Ph.D., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1999.

Faculty Emeriti

Ernest Buck, Professor Emeritus, 1990.

Fergus Clydesdale, Professor Emeritus, 2008.

David Evans, Professor Emeritus, 1995.

Ronald G. Labbe, Professor Emeritus, 2018.

Raymond Mahoney, Professor Emeritus, 2013.

Wassef Nawar, Professor Emeritus, 1992.

Micha Peleg, Professor Emeritus, 2015.

Kalidas Shetty, Professor Emeritus, 2013.