CORONAVIRUS UPDATES: Visit Penn State's virus information website to keep up with the latest from the University on the global coronavirus outbreak.

Evan Pugh Professors

Evan Pugh Professors

George E. Andrew
George E. Andrew, Evan Pugh professor of mathematics.
He is renowned for hi work on number theory, partitions and related areas of mathematics, and he is an authority on the work of Srinivasa Ramanujan, the self-taught Indian mathematician who revolutionized number theory and the study of partitions in the early 20th century.

IMAGE: Penn State
Paul F. Baum
Paul F. Baum, the Evan Pugh Professor of mathematics.
Baum has gained international recognition for his work on applying K-theory to a variety of mathematical problems. Among his important early research was the extension of the Riemann-Roch theorem to algebraic varieties which may be singular.

IMAGE: Penn State
Stephen J. Benkovic
Stephen J. Benkovic the Evan Pugh professor and Ebery Chair in Chemistry. Benkovic is known for his biochemistry research, especially his work on the mechanisms of enzymic reactions. His research has led to the development of a new generation of antifolates for cancer therapy, to an understanding of how the HIV-1 virus develops mutations that contribute to its resistance to AIDS drugs, to... Read more ›
IMAGE: Penn State
A. Welford Castleman Jr.
A. Welford Castleman Jr., the Evan Pugh Professor of Chemistry and Physics and Eberly Family Distinguished Chair in Science.

Castleman's research focuses on small clusters of molecules. In particular, he is interested in why nanoscale matter behaves differently from large-scale matter. His group created the first Metallo-carbohedrenes, or Met-Cars, which are combinations of carbon and... Read more ›
IMAGE: Penn State
Moses H. W. Chan
Moses H. W. Chan, the Evan Pugh Professor of physics.
He is distinguished in his work on phase transitions--the conditions under which a material changes from one phase to another--in quantum fluids, in reduced dimensions, and in the presence of disorder. The principles he and his research group have helped to establish have proven to be useful in understanding a wide variety of problems... Read more ›
IMAGE: Penn State
Anthony Cutler
Anthony Cutler the Evan Pugh Professor of art history.
Cutler is recognized as a world authority in Byzantine studies, particularly in the specialized area of Byzantine carved ivories. gift exchange between Byzantium and Islam. He is unraveling the complex cultural exchanges of interdisciplinary approach including art history and anthropology to decipher the cultural history.

IMAGE: Penn State
Joanna Floros
Joanna Floros (cellular and molecular physiology).
Floros is a founder and an important contributor to the surfactant protein field. Pulmonary surfactant is a lipoprotein complex that prevents lung collapse and is essential for life. Surfactant deficiency can lead to respiratory distress syndrome in prematurely born infants. Floros was the first to identify, characterize and clone the... Read more ›
IMAGE: Penn State
Gordon P. Garmire
Gordon P. Garmire, the Evan Pugh Professor of Astronomy.
He is the co-discoverer of high energy gamma rays and is responsible for developing many of the data analysis algorithms used today in high energy astrophysics, the construction of the first diamond-turned X-ray telescope, and the discovery of the first non-pulsating neutron star in a supernova remnant.

IMAGE: Penn State
Robert D. Hume
Robert D. Hume, Evan Pugh Professor of English in the College of the Liberal Arts.
He is widely recognized as the foremost living historian of Restoration and eighteenth-century theatre with an international reputation in the history of literary criticism, opera, and drama. He has rediscovered lost manuscripts, plays, and theatre rosters of importance to scholars both here and abroad....
IMAGE: Penn State
Gerald E. McClearn
Gerald E. McClearn the Evan Pugh Professor of Health and Human Development and Biobehavioral Health.
He is renowned his work on genetic influence on individual differences in phenotypes related to health and development.

IMAGE: Penn State
Masatoshi Nei
Masatoshi Nei, the Evan Pugh Professor of Biology.
Nei has been a major contributor to population and evolutionary genetics theory throughout his career. By developing various statistical methods and applying them to molecular data, he pioneered new ways of studying the genetic diversity of populations, evolutionary relationships among organisms, the times of species divergence from... Read more ›
IMAGE: Penn State
Dr. Anthony Pegg
Dr. Anthony Pegg is the Evan Pugh Professor of cellular and molecular physiology and, the J. Lloyd Huck Chair of Cell and Molecular Biology. He has conducted important research in two areas: polyamine biosynthesis and function, and DNA repair and chemical carcinogenesis.

IMAGE: Penn State
Elliot S. Vesell
Elliot S. Vesell, the Evan Pugh professor of pharmacology.
Vesell is considered a founding father of pharmacogenetics, a field devoted to problems of patients' large variations in drug response.

IMAGE: Penn State
Nicholas Winograd
Nicholas Winograd, the Evan Pugh professor of chemistry.
Internationally regarded for his work in surface science, he has advanced the combined techniques of particle bombardment of solids and multiphoton resonance ionization (MPRI). Particle bombardment forces atoms and molecules to eject from the surface into the gas phase. Then the MPRI technique is implemented in order to count the... Read more ›
IMAGE: Penn State
Alan Walker
Alan Walker the Evan Pugh Professor of anthropology and biology.
Walker is one of the world's foremost experts on the evolution of primates and humans. His research involves searching for primate and human fossils in rocks dated from about 30 million to 1 million years ago. He has made many important discoveries during the past three decades at paleontological digs in Africa with his... Read more ›
IMAGE: Penn State
Harry R. Allcock
Harry R. Allcock the Evan Pugh Professor of chemistry.
He was the discoverer of a major class of polymers known as polyphosphazenes, which can be customized for use in fuel cells, flame retardants, and medical prostheses, among other things. He also discovered a new class of molecular-inclusion compounds known as clathrates, which have been used to separate a wide variety of small... Read more ›
IMAGE: Penn State
James B. Anderson
James B. Anderson the Evan Pugh Professor of chemistry.
Anderson has made important breakthroughs in such fields as surface science, supersonic molecular beams, crossed-beam reactive scattering, the rare event approach to molecular dynamics, and quantum mechanics. Among other research efforts, he pioneered the application of the quantum Monte Carlo method to the calculation of the... Read more ›
IMAGE: Penn State
Mary Jane Irwin
Mary Jane Irwin, computer science and engineering.
Irwin is renowned for her research on computer architecture, embedded and mobile computing systems design, power aware design and emerging technologies in computing systems.

IMAGE: Penn State
Nigel Higson
Nigel Higson, the Evan Pugh Professor of mathematics.

Higson is a specialist in noncommutative geometry, particularly the operator-algebra theory, a subject that has roots in the mathematical foundations of quantum theory and in Fourier analysis and that has powerful consequences in the fields of topology and geometry. His recent work focuses on the Baum-Connes conjecture, a broad... Read more ›
IMAGE: Penn State
George E. Andrew
George E. Andrew, Evan Pugh professor of mathematics.
He is renowned for hi work on number theory, partitions and related areas of mathematics, and he is an authority on the work of Srinivasa Ramanujan, the self-taught Indian mathematician who revolutionized number theory and the study of partitions in the early 20th century.

IMAGE: Penn State

Popular Galleries

Will Covid-19 variants continue to emerge if vaccination rates don't rise?

New variants Q&A

Penn State baseball uniform and glove 1930's

Penn State's All Sports Museum

groundbreaking ceremony

The future of engineering at Penn State

A man in a blue mask stretches a white membrane with black electronics with both hands.

Stretch into the future of health monitoring

Are the covid vaccines associated with infertility text

Infertility Q

More Multimedia