Professor, Agricultural Sciences Education and Communication
Research Interests: Human behaviors that impact animal welfare (specifically equine) and how we can design interventions to alter human behavior to enhance animal welfare.
Associate Professor of Animal Sciences
Research Intersts: Quantitative Genetics and Genomics.
Adjunct Associate Professor, Animal Sciences
Research Biologist - USDA-ARS Livestock Behavior Research Unit
Research Interests: brain functioning in regulating stress response in farm animals, especially poultry, pain in farm animals, use of probiotics and synbiotics for improving animal well-being, modification of caging environments to improve hen well-being, and prenatal modification of neurotransmitter system for reducing aggression.
Director, Center for Animal Welfare Science
Professor of Animal Behavior and Well-being
Research Interests: cognition; companion and agricultural animal welfare; enrichment; animal bioethics; public perceptions of animal agriculture.
Clinical Assistant Professor, Shelter Medicine and Surgery
Research Interests: shelter medicine and surgery; public interest/social/ethical/economic issues relative to animal welfare; Interface between human-animal bond and animal welfare
Clinical Assistant Professor; Assistant Director of Clinical Medicine, Office of the Executive Vice President for Research
Research Interests: laboratory animal medicine and welfare; gnotobiotics
Professor of Nursing
Director, AGNP Program
Research Interests: adult nursing; gerontology; development of non-pharmacologic care protocols for neuroprogressive disease patients.
Associate Professor, Anatomy and Genetics
Research Interests: Companion Animal Genetics
Associate Professor and Extension Specialist
Research Interests: Animal Well-Being
Professor of Biological Sciences
Research Interests: animal behavior, visual ecology, visual physiology, conservation ecology
Terry & Sandra Tucker Endowed Chair, Poultry Science/Associate Professor, Animal Sciences
Research Interests: Poultry neuroendocrinology and welfare
Associate Professor of Animal Sciences, Poultry Extension Specialist
Research Interests: the impact of moving poultry to new housing systems in the table egg industry factoring in the management challenges, food safety implications and hen well-being.
Assistant Professor of Animal Science
Research Interests: behavior, welfare and management of dairy cattle.
Assistant Professor, Human-Animal Bond
Research Interests: human-animal interactions
Associate Professor of Animal Behavior
Research Interests: pursuing mental health and well-being in companion animals; translational research between the human psychiatric field and veterinary behavior.
Associate Professional; Animal Research Specialist, USDA-ARS Livestock Behavior Research Unit
Research Interests: integration of aspects of applied ethology, epidemiology, physiology, and sociology to enhance the welfare of dairy and beef animals, particularly in early life
Associate Professor, Site Director Purdue Polytechnic
Research Interests: Assessment of educational technologies, Patient education, Health communication/health literacy, Industry/academic collaborations, Scholarship of teaching and learning; Language acquisition & literacy, discourse studies
Professor of Animal Sciences
Research Interests: breeding, genetics, and growth of swine.
Associate Professor of Clinical/Analytical Epidemiology
Research Interests: epidemiologic methods and their applications to human-animal interaction studies and animal welfare sciences
Professor and Associate Head, and Graduate Chair of Agricultural Economics
Research Interests: farm business management; on-farm decision making; integrating consumer demand for livestock housing and handling practices into production decisions
Associate Professional, Animal Research Specialist, USDA-ARS Livestock Behavior Research Unit
Research Interests: optimizing welfare for food producing animals; poultry, swine, applied ethology, animal welfare science, precision livestock farming, behavioral genetics
Professor Emeritus of Animal Ecology
Research Interests: Human-animal bond; urban animal ecology; animal companionship; the effects of animal use for therapy.
Professor Emeritus, Large Animal Medicine
Research Interests: equine endocrinology and equine geriatric medicine; the welfare implications of chronic laminitis and other lameness in horses
Graduate Student
Advisor: Darrin Karcher
Research interests: Poultry management and welfare
Postdoctoral Researcher
Advisor: Candace Croney
Research interests: Animal Welfare Science
PhD Student
Advisor: Kari Ekenstedt
Research interests: Companion animal genetics
Post Doctoral Researcher
Advisor: Candace Croney
Research interests: Animal Welfare Science
M.S. Student
Advisor: Marisa Erasumus
Research interests: Animal behavior and well-being
Graduate Student
Advisor: Darrin Karcher
Research interests: Poultry management and welfare
Graduate Student
Advisor: Darrin Karcher
Research interests: Poultry management and welfare
Graduate Student
Advisor: Heng-wei Cheng
Research interests: Animal behavior and well-being
Graduate Student
Advisor: Heng-wei Cheng
Research interests: the impact of cold stress in laying hens on production and physiological responses.
PhD Student
Advisor: Heng-wei Cheng
Research interests: Animal behavior and well-being
PhD Student
Advisor: Greg Fraley
Research interests: Strategies for managing heat stress in poultry production
Graduate Student
Advisor: Candace Croney
Research interests: Dog behavior and welfare
Graduate Student
Advisor: Niwako Ogata
Research interests:animal behavior and welfare, cat behavior, human-animal bonding, and shelter medicine.
PhD Student
Advisor: Greg Fraley
Research interests: Environmental enrichment and its effects on animal behavior and well-being.
M.S. Student
Advisor: Greg Fraley
Research interests:
Graduate Student
Advisor: Nicole Widmar
Research interests: Consumer/producer relations in modern agriculture
PhD Student
Advisor: Heng-wei Cheng
Research interests: Animal behavior and well-being
Graduate Student
Advisor: Luiz F. Brito
Research interests: Livestock genetics and breeding: Animal welfare
