Faculty
Core Faculty

Manreet Singh Bhullar
Assistant Professor
- Food Safety of Fruits and Vegetables

Cynthia Domenghini
Instructor and Extension Specialist
- Consumer Horticulture

Bizen Hu
Teaching Assistant Professor
- Sustainable Food Production Systems

Tricia Jenkins
Assistant Professor
- Urban Food Systems

Eleni Pliakoni
Professor
- Urban Food Production and Postharvest Handling

Cary Rivard
Professor, Extension Specialist and Director of the K-State Research and Extension Center - Olathe
- Horticulture and Natural Resources

Ravneet Sandhu
Research Assistant Professor
- Small and Tree Fruit Production/IPM
Affiliated Faculty

Marlin Bates
Director of Douglas County Extension
- K-State Research and Extension

Chandler Day
Associate Diagnostician
- Department of Plant Pathology

Huston Gibson
Regional and Community Planning
- Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional & Community Planning

Ganga Hettiarachchi
Soil and Environmental Chemistry
- Department of Agronomy

Stacy L. Hutchinson
Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs
- Carl R. Ice College of Engineering

Ari Jumpponen
Mycology
- Division of Biology

Megan Kennelly
Plant Pathology
- Department of Plant Pathology

Tania Kim
Entomology and Landscape Ecology
- Department of Entomology

Nathan Nelson
Soil Fertility and Nutrient Management
- Soil Fertility and Nutrient Management

Matthew Sanderson
Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work
- Sociology

Lee Skabelund
Landscape Architecture
- Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional & Community Planning

Martin Talavera
Consumer and Sensory Analysis and Product Development
- Department of Food, Nutrition, Dietetics and Health
Emeritus Faculty

Candice Shoemaker
Urban Food Systems, Horticultural Therapy