Election 2020: Timely Topics
The 2020 Presidential Election year has been one like no other. Penn State experts are available to weigh in on and help explain the issues most relevant to the U.S. electorate.
The 2020 Presidential Election year has been one like no other. Penn State experts are available to weigh in on and help explain the issues most relevant to the U.S. electorate.
William L. Weiss Professor of Information and Communications Technology
Engineering & Technology, Telecommunications
Associate Professor of Geography and African Studies
Social Sciences, Civil Rights, Politics & Policy
Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Sustainability & Environment, Engineering & Technology, Politics & Policy
Penn State faculty experts are available to speak on a wide range of issues as they emerge on the campaign trail, including election security, civil rights and social movements, climate change, infectious diseases, immigration laws, and many more topics.
William L. Weiss Professor of Information and Communications Technology,
Director of the Institute for Networking and Security Research
Contact Patrick McDaniel with questions about: Mobile device security, adversarial machine learning, systems security, program analysis for security, and the integrity and security of election systems
Associate Professor of Political Science
Contact Michael Nelson with questions about: effects of judicial elections, public support for courts in the United States, including the U.S. Supreme Court, and abroad, and the effects of collegiality on judicial behavior.
Associate Professor of Geography and African Studies
Contact Joshua Inwood with questions about: the social, political, and economic structures of vulnerable populations.
Samuel Weiss Faculty Scholar,
Clinical Professor of Law,
Director, Center for Immigrants' Rights Clinic
Contact Shoba Wadhia with questions about: Wadhia is an expert on immigration law whose research focuses on the role of prosecutorial discretion in immigration law and the intersections of race, national security and immigration.
Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science,
Director of the Earth System Science Center
Contact Michael Mann with questions about: The scientific understanding of historic climate change based on the temperature record of the past thousand years, man-made activity that has changed our climate and extreme weather
Palmer Chair in Telecommunications,
Director of the X-Lab
Contact Sascha Meinrath with questions about: the coronavirus pandemic's impacts on Internet connectivity. He can also comment on voting security, technology policy, privacy, surveillance, civil liberties, broadband mapping and artificial intelligence.
Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering,
Affiliated Faculty of the The Rock Ethics Institute
Contact Jeffrey Catchmark with questions about: Ethical leadership and decision-making. He can also speak about sustainable packaging, construction materials, food products and biomaterials for healthcare.
Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice
Contact Lacey Wallace with questions about: Gun ownership and gun acquisition behavior and the effects of intervention and policy on these processes
Penn State expertise spans far beyond those that we have currently featured on the site. Call us at 814-865-7517 or contact a member of the media relations staff
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