Faculty

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PADGITT, STEVEN C., Professor of Sociology. B.S., 1965, Iowa State; M.S., 1968, Missouri; Ph.D., 1971, Iowa State.
PAK, YONG CHIN, Adjunct Instructor in Health and Human Performance. B.A., 1971, Korean Judo College.
PALAN, KAY MARIE, Associate Professor of Marketing. B.S., 1976, Winona; M.B.A., 1990, Moorhead; Ph.D., 1994, Texas Technical University.
PALERMO, GREGORY S., Professor of Architecture. B.Arch., 1969, Carnegie Mellon; M.Arch., 1976, Washington (St. Louis).
PALMER, MITCHELL V., Assistant Professor of Veterinary Pathology (Collaborator). B.S., 1985, Utah State; D.V.M., 1989, Purdue; Ph.D., 1996, Iowa State.
PALMER, REID G., Professor of Agronomy (Collaborator); Professor of Zoology and Genetics (Collaborator). M.S., 1965, Illinois; Ph.D., 1970, Indiana.
PANIGRAHY, BRUNDABAN, Associate Professor of Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine (Collaborator). B.V.Sc., 1962, Orissa Veterinary College; M.S., 1968, Minnesota; Ph.D., 1972, Texas A and M.
PARK, JIHYE, Assistant Professor of Apparel, Educational Studies and Hospitality Management. B.S., 1997, Seoul National (Korea); M.S., 2000, Ohio State.
PARKIN, TIMOTHY B., Assistant Professor of Microbiology (Collaborator). B.A., 1976, Wabash; M.S., 1978, Ph.D., 1980, Wisconsin.
PARKS, W. ROBERT, Emeritus Professor of Political Science; President Emeritus. B.A., 1937, Berea; M.A., 1938, Kentucky; Ph.D., 1948, Wisconsin; Ll.D., 1966, Berea; L.H.D., 1968, Westmar; Ll.D., 1968, Drake; D.Sc., 1973, Kentucky.
PARRISH, FREDERICK C., Emeritus Professor of Animal Science; Emeritus Professor of Food Science and Human Nutrition; University Professor. B.S., 1959, M.S., 1960, Ph.D., 1965, Missouri.
PARSONS, GERALD E., Emeritus Professor of Agricultural Education and Studies. B.S., 1952, M.S., 1959, Ph.D., 1970, Iowa State.
PARSONS, JEAN LOUISE, Assistant Professor of Apparel, Educational Studies and Hospitality Management. B.S., 1974, Pennsylvania State; M.S., 1989, Ph.D., 1998, Maryland.
PARSONS, KATHY A., Associate Professor, Library. B.A., 1980, North Carolina (Greensboro); M.A., 1981, Iowa.
PASCHKE, TERESA A., Assistant Professor of Art and Design. B.F.A., 1985, Minneapolis College of Art and Design; M.F.A., 1998, Kansas.
PATCHETT, JAMES, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture (Collaborator). B.S., 1975, M.L.A., 1981, M.S., 1985, Iowa State.
PATE, MICHAEL BENCE, Professor of Mechanical Engineering. B.S., 1970, U.S. Naval Academy; M.S., 1978, Arkansas; Ph.D., 1982, Purdue.
PATTEE, PETER ARTHUR, Emeritus Professor of Microbiology; Emeritus Professor of Zoology and Genetics. B.S., 1955, Maine; M.S., 1957, Ph.D., 1961, Ohio State.
PATTERSON, JOHN W. JR., Emeritus Professor of Materials Science and Engineering. B.E.M., 1962, M.S., 1962, Ph.D., 1966, Ohio State.
PATTERSON, PATRICK E., Associate Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering and Chair of the Department. B.S., 1972, Springfield; M.S., 1978, Cleveland State; Ph.D., 1984, Texas A and M.
PATTERSON, RALPH III, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering. B.S.E.E., 1963, M.S., 1976, Iowa State.
PATTON, ROBERT, Instructor in Music (Collaborator).
PATTON, TRACEY OWENS, Assistant Professor of Greenlee School Journalism/Communication. B.A., 1993, M.A., 1996, Colorado State; Ph.D., 2000, Utah.
PAULSEN, ARNOLD ALLEN, Emeritus Professor of Economics. B.S., 1951, Ph.D., 1959, Iowa State.
PAVLAT, JOHN R., Emeritus Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. B.S., 1955, South Dakota School of Mines; M.S.E.E., 1961, Iowa State.
PAXSON, LYNN, Assistant Professor of Architecture. B.A., 1978, B.E., 1978, Colorado; M.Phil., 1981, City University of New York.
PAYNE, ROBERTA L., Adjunct Assistant Professor of English. B.A., 1967, Stanford; Ph.D., 1985, Denver.
PAYNE, WILLIAM DONALD, Associate Professor of English; Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction. B.A., 1967, Louisville; M.A., 1968, Ph.D., 1980, Illinois.
PEAKE, E. JAMES JR., Emeritus Assistant Professor of Mathematics. B.S., 1960, M.S., 1962, Ph.D., 1963, New Mexico State.
PEARCE, ROBERT BRENT, Emeritus Professor of Agronomy. B.S., 1963, California (Davis); M.S., 1965, Ph.D., 1967, Virginia Polytechnic Institute.
PEASE, JAMES L., Assistant Professor of Natural Resource Ecology and Management. B.S., 1972, M.S., 1977, Wisconsin; Ph.D., 1992, Iowa State.
PECHARSKY, VITALIJ K., Professor of Materials Science and Engineering. M.S., 1976, Ph.D., 1979, USSR.
PEDERSEN, JOHN H., Emeritus Professor of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering. B.S., 1951, Cornell; M.S., 1952, Ph.D., 1955, Iowa State.
PEDERSEN, WAYNE A., Associate Professor, Library. B.A., 1974, Iowa State; M.A., 1976, Iowa.
PEDIGO, LARRY, Emeritus Professor of Entomology; University Professor. B.S., 1963, Fort Hays; M.S., 1965, Ph.D., 1967, Purdue.
PEEL, SHANNON P., Adjunct Instructor in Health and Human Performance. B.S., 1986, Iowa State; M.A., 1997, Northern Colorado.
PEGLAR, GEORGE W., Emeritus Professor of Mathematics. B.S., 1942, Central Missouri; S.M., 1949, Chicago; Ph.D., 1953, Iowa.
PELLACK, LORRAINE J., Associate Professor, Library. B.S., 1981, Upper Iowa; M.L.S., 1982, Emporia State.
PELLEGRENO, DOMINICK, Emeritus Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies. B.M.E., 1958, A.M., 1959, Michigan; Ed.D., 1968, Toledo.
PELZER, NANCY L., Associate Professor, Library. B.S., 1967, Arizona State; M.A., 1983, Iowa.
PENDRY, STEPHEN R., Adjunct Instructor in Veterinary Clinical Sciences. B.S., 1969, Iowa State.
PERICH, MICHAEL J., Associate Professor of Entomology (Collaborator). B.S., 1979, Iowa State; M.S., 1982, Ph.D., 1985, Oklahoma State.
PESEK, JOHN T. JR., Emeritus Professor of Agronomy; Charles F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor in Agriculture. B.S., 1943, M.S., 1947, Texas A and M; Ph.D., 1950, North Carolina State.
PETERS, FRANK E., Associate Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering. B.S., 1991, M.S., 1994, Ph.D., 1996, Pennsylvania State.
PETERS, JUSTIN, Professor of Mathematics and Chair of the Department. B.A., 1968, Reed; Ph.D., 1973, Minnesota.
PETERS, LEO C., Emeritus Professor of Mechanical Engineering. B.S., 1953, Kansas State; M.S., 1963, Ph.D., 1967, Iowa State.
PETERS, REUBEN J., Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology. B.S., 1992, California (San Diego); Ph.D., 1998, California (San Francisco).
PETERS, RONALD H., Professor of Psychology. B.A., 1960, M.A., 1962, Ph.D., 1963, Iowa.
PETERSEN, NEVA M., Emeritus Professor of Human Development and Family Studies; Emeritus Professor of Art and Design. B.S., 1930, M.S., 1947, Iowa State.
PETERSON, CARLA ANN, Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies. B.S., 1975, Iowa State; M.A., 1981, South Dakota; Ph.D., 1991, Minnesota.
PETERSON, FRANCIS, Emeritus Professor of Physics and Astronomy. B.E.E., 1964, Rensselaer; Ph.D., 1968, Cornell.
PETERSON, JANE W., Professor of Greenlee School Journalism/Communication. B.A., 1972, Iowa; M.S., 1982, Ph.D., 1987, Iowa State.
PETERSON, JANET S., Professor of Mathematics. B.S., 1973, California State (Los Angeles); M.S., 1977, Tennessee Space Institute; Ph.D., 1981, Tennessee.
PETERSON, PETER A., Professor of Agronomy; Professor of Zoology and Genetics. B.S., 1947, Tufts; Ph.D., 1953, Illinois.
PETERSON, THOMAS A., Associate Professor of Zoology and Genetics; Associate Professor of Agronomy. B.S., 1976, California (Davis); Ph.D., 1984, California (Santa Barbara).
PETRICH, JACOB W., Professor of Chemistry. B.S., 1980, Yale; Ph.D., 1985, Chicago.
PETT, STEPHEN WILLARD, Associate Professor of English. B.A., 1971, Colorado College; M.A., 1974, Hollins; Ph.D., 1980, Utah.
PFANTZ, TAMARA J., Lecturer in Mathematics. B.S., 1979, M.S., 1985, Iowa State.
PHAM, HUNG ANH, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering (Collaborator). B.S., 1991, Harvey Mudd College; M.S., 1994, Ph.D., 1996, California (Berkeley).
PHARES, BRENT M., Adjunct Assistant Professor of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering. B.S.C.E., 1994, M.S.C.E., 1996, Ph.D., 1998, Iowa State.
PHILLIPS, CAROL ALEXANDER, Adjunct Professor of Human Development and Family Studies. B.S., 1961, M.S., 1967, Drake; Ph.D., 1978, Iowa.
PHILLIPS, GREGORY J., Associate Professor of Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine. B.A., 1979, M.A., 1981, Southern Illinois; Ph.D., 1987, Georgia.
PHYE, GARY D., Professor of Curriculum and Instruction; Professor of Psychology. B.A., 1964, M.A., 1965, Wichita; Ph.D., 1970, Missouri.
PICKETT, MARY S., Emeritus Professor of Human Development and Family Studies; Emeritus Professor of Art and Design. B.S., 1944, M.S., 1951, Tennessee; Ph.D., 1958, Iowa State.
PIERCE, CLAY L., Assistant Professor of Natural Resource Ecology and Management (Collaborator). B.S., 1980, Mankato; M.S., 1982, Kentucky; Ph.D., 1987, Maryland.
PIERCE, DAVID R., Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies (Collaborator). B.A., 1960, M.S., 1961, California State (Long Beach); M.S., 1965, Ph.D., 1969, Purdue.
PIERSON, BION LEE, Professor of Aerospace Engineering. B.S., 1961, M.S., 1963, Iowa State; Ph.D., 1967, Michigan.
PIGOZZI, DON LEONARD, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics. A.B., 1959, M.A., 1964, Ph.D., 1970, California (Berkeley).
PINEDA, MAURICIO H., Emeritus Professor of Biomedical Sciences. D.V.M., 1954, Chile; M.S., 1965, Ph.D., 1968, Colorado State.
PISUT, GINA R., Assistant Professor of Apparel, Educational Studies and Hospitality Management. B.S., 1993, Iowa State; M.S., 1998, Ph.D., 2001, Auburn.
PITT, JOHN MICHAEL, Associate Professor of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering. B.S., 1968, Missouri (Rolla); M.S., 1974, Ph.D., 1981, Iowa State.
PIWOWAR, MICHAEL S., Assistant Professor of Finance. B.A., 1990, Pennsylvania State; M.B.A., 1994, Georgetown; Ph.D., 1998, Pennsylvania State.
PLAKANS, ANDREJS, Professor of History and Chair of the Department. B.A., 1963, Franklin and Marshall; M.A., 1964, Ph.D., 1969, Harvard.
PLATT, KENNETH B., Professor of Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine. B.S., 1963, Pennsylvania State; D.V.M., 1966, Cornell; M.S., 1974, Texas A and M; Ph.D., 1977, Iowa State.
PLAZAK, DAVID, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Community and Regional Planning; Adjunct Assistant Professor of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering. B.A., 1977, Wisconsin; M.A., 1979, Iowa.
PLEASANTS, BARBARA P., Adjunct Assistant Professor of Zoology and Genetics. B.S., 1971, Cornell; Ph.D., 1977, California (Los Angeles).
PLETCHER, RICHARD H., Professor of Mechanical Engineering. B.S., 1957, Purdue; M.S., 1962, Ph.D., 1966, Cornell.
POAGUE, LELAND A., Professor of English. B.A., 1970, California State (San Jose); Ph.D., 1973, Oregon.
POGRANICHNIY, ROMAN M., Adjunct Instructor in Veterinary Diagnostic and Production Animal Medicine. D.V.M., 1993, Ukrainian State Agricultural; M.S., 2000, Iowa State.
POHL, NICOLA, Assistant Professor of Chemistry. A.B., 1991, Harvard; Ph.D., 1997, Wisconsin.
POHLMAN, LYNETTE L., Adjunct Associate Professor of Art and Design. B.A., 1972, M.A., 1976, Iowa State.
POHM, ARTHUR V., Emeritus Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Anson Marston Distinguished Professor in Engineering. B.E.E., 1950, B.E.S., 1950, Cleveland State; M.S., 1953, Ph.D., 1954, Iowa State;
POIST, RICHARD F. JR., Professor of Logistics, Operations and Management Information Systems and Interim Chair of the Department. B.S., 1965, Pennsylvania State; M.B.A., 1967, Maryland; Ph.D., 1972, Pennsylvania State.
POLITO, THOMAS A., Assistant Professor of Agricultural Education and Studies; Assistant Professor of Agronomy. B.S., 1976, M.S., 1982, Ph.D., 1987, Iowa State.
POLLAK, EDWARD, Emeritus Professor of Statistics; Emeritus Professor of Zoology and Genetics. B.S., 1954, Cornell; M.S., 1956, North Carolina State; Ph.D., 1964, Columbia.
POLLAK, LINDA M., Associate Professor of Agronomy (Collaborator). B.S., 1978, Ohio State; M.S., 1980, Ph.D., 1982, Nebraska.
POLSTER, NANCY L., Emeritus Associate Professor of Art and Design. B.S., 1960, Iowa State; M.S., 1964, Syracuse.
POMETTO, ANTHONY III, Professor of Food Science and Human Nutrition; Professor of Microbiology. B.S., 1976, George Mason; M.S., 1983, Ph.D., 1987, Idaho.
POON, YIU TUNG, Associate Professor of Mathematics. B.A., 1977, M.Phil., 1980, Hong Kong; Ph.D., 1985, California (Los Angeles).
POPE, CHRISTIE F., Associate Professor of History. A.B., 1959, North Carolina; Ph.D., 1977, Chicago.
PORTER, MARC DAVID, Professor of Chemistry; Professor of Chemical Engineering. B.S., 1977, M.S., 1979, Wright State; Ph.D., 1984, Ohio State.
PORTER, MAX LEE, Professor of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering. B.S., 1965, M.S., 1968, Ph.D., 1974, Iowa State.
POST, CONSTANCE J., Associate Professor of English. B.A., 1966, Nyack; M.A.T., 1968, M.A., 1980, M.Phil., 1982, Ph.D., 1986, Columbia.
POSTON, WILLIAM K. JR., Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies. B.A., 1961, Northern Iowa; Ed.S., 1966, Ed.D., 1969, Arizona State.
POTOSKI, MATTHEW, Assistant Professor of Political Science. B.A., 1991, Franklin and Marshall College; M.A., 1994, Vermont; Ph.D., 1998, Indiana.
POTTER, ALLAN GEORGE, Emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering. B.S., 1955, Kansas State; M.S., 1959, Ph.D., 1966, Iowa State.
POTTER, ROSANNE G., Emeritus Professor of English. A.B., 1964, Rosemont; M.A., 1964, Chicago; Ph.D., 1975, Texas.
POUNDS, RUSSELL G., Emeritus Associate Professor of Economics. B.S., 1957, Central State (Ohio); M.S., 1970, Iowa State.
POWELL, EDWIN CADMAN, Associate Professor of Zoology and Genetics. B.A., 1963, California State (Chico); M.S., 1965, Florida State; Ph.D., 1971, Tulane.
POWELL, JACK E., Emeritus Professor of Chemistry. B.S., 1943, Monmouth; Ph.D., 1952, Iowa State.
POWELL-COFFMAN, JO A., Assistant Professor of Zoology and Genetics. B.S., 1986, California (Davis); Ph.D., 1993, California (San Diego).
POWER, DEBRA L., Lecturer in Health and Human Performance. B.A., 1984, Creighton; M.S., 1986, Iowa State.
POWER, MARK L., Professor of Finance. B.S., 1974, Iowa State; M.B.A., 1977, Ph.D., 1981, Iowa.
POWERS-SCHILLING, W., Assistant Professor of Animal Science; Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering. B.S., 1989, Cornell; M.S., 1993, Ph.D., 1997, Florida.
PRABHU, GURPUR M., Associate Professor of Computer Science. B.Tech., 1975, M.Tech., 1978, Indian Institute of Technology; Ph.D., 1983, Washington State.
PRATER, JEFFREY LYNN, Professor of Music. B.S., 1969, Iowa State; M.M., 1973, Michigan State; Ph.D., 1982, Iowa.
PREAST, VANESSA ANTOINETTE, Adjunct Instructor in Veterinary Pathology. B.S., 1996, D.V.M., 2000, Florida.
PRELL, SOEREN A., Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy. Ph.D., 1996, Hamburg (Germany).
PREMKUMAR, G., Associate Professor of Logistics, Operations and Management Information Systems. B.E., 1975, Madras; M.B.A., 1982, Indian Institute of Management; Ph.D., 1989, Pittsburgh.
PRESCOTT, JAMES R., Emeritus Professor of Economics. B.A., 1957, California (Berkeley); M.A., 1960, Ph.D., 1964, Harvard.
PRESSEL, MICHELLE A., Adjunct Instructor in Veterinary Clinical Sciences. B.A., 1989, California (Santa Barbara); M.S., 1993, California Polytechnical; D.V.M., 2000, Colorado State.
PRESTEMON, DEAN R., Emeritus Professor of Natural Resource Ecology and Management. B.S., 1956, Iowa State; M.S., 1957, Minnesota; Ph.D., 1966, California (Berkeley).
PRICE-HERNDL, SUSAN D., Associate Professor of English. B.A., 1981, Texas Christian; M.A., 1984, Minnesota; Ph.D., 1989, North Carolina.
PRIOR-MILLER, MARCIA, Associate Professor of Greenlee School Journalism/Communication. B.A., 1970, Abilene Christian; M.A., 1981, Missouri.
PRITCHARD, JAMES, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture; Adjunct Assistant Professor of Natural Resource Ecology and Management; Adjunct Assistant Professor of Botany. B.A., 1976, Miami (Ohio); M.A., 1991, Montana State; Ph.D., 1996, Kansas.
PRUETZ, JILL D., Assistant Professor of Anthropology. B.A., 1989, Southwest Texas State; Ph.D., 1999, Illinois.
PRUSA, JOSEPH M., Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering (Collaborator). A.B., 1978, B.S., 1978, M.S., 1980, Ph.D., 1983, Illinois.
PRUSA, KENNETH JOHN, Professor of Food Science and Human Nutrition; Professor of Animal Science. B.S., 1979, Fort Hays; M.S., 1980, Ph.D., 1983, Kansas State.
PURSEY, DEREK L., Emeritus Professor of Physics and Astronomy. B.S., 1948, Ph.D., 1952, Glasgow.