Guidance & Support Boards

The perspectives of those who know us best supplement the leadership and guidance of Honors College staff. Our advisory and volunteer boards are essential and trusted voices for the College as we strive to maintain our reputation as the nation's premier honors program.

External Advisory Board (EAB)

The External Advisory Board is composed of Penn State alumni, friends of the Schreyer Honors College, parents of Scholars, and others committed to the College realizing its mission.

The board convenes twice a year at meetings held on the University Park campus.

Board members demonstrate leadership and commitment to the College through their advice and counsel of the Dean and staff, mentorship of current Scholars, by sponsoring internships and research projects, and through personal philanthropy.

Melissa Marshall '00 EMS Chair, Career-Immersion Experiences Chief Compliance Officer, Westinghouse Electric Corporation

Edward Marx '98 Eng Chair, Scholar Access Executive Director, Enterprise Analytics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Tracy Riegel '85 HHD Chair, Community

Brian Schmanske '86 Eng Chair, Brand Development and Deployment President, Jupiter View Strategic Advisors, LLC

Robert Poole '72 Bus Chair, EAB and Steering Group President and CEO, S&A Homes, Inc. CEO, Poole Anderson Construction

Robert Edwards '75 Bus, '83 MBA Vice-Chair, EAB Retired Executive Vice President, PNC Bank

William Bogdan '83 Lib Attorney at Law, Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP

Mark Bowser '77 Bus EVP and CFO, Cox Automotive

William Donato, Jr. '94 Bus President and COO, Safegard Group Inc.

Charles Frazier '12 Bus, '12g Bus Treasurer, BDR Properties

Linda Gall '06 Hon

Lisa Hart '97 Eng Senior Vice President, Commercial Real Estate M&T Bank

Reginald Hedgebeth '89 Lib Chief Legal Officer, Capital Group American Funds

Edward Hintz '59 Bus President, Hintz Capital Management

Thomas Lindquist '86 Sci Senior Vice President/General Manager for Government Programs, Medica

Todd Lippincott '94 Lib Vice President, Global Rewards, Mars

Nathan Nair '97 Sci Neurosurgery Residency Director and Associate Professor, Georgetown University Hospital

Ryan Newman '01 Bus Managing Director, Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Carol Packard '99 Lib Associate Vice President, Colleges and Units - Alumni Affairs and Development, Cornell University

Mark Prybutok '97 Lib Managing Director, GI Partners

Rick Riegel '85 Eng Chairman, ActiGraph & Deerfield Agency

DrueAnne Schreyer President, BDR Properties, Inc.

Sarah Shaffer '97 Bus Rates Manager, Equitrans Midstream Corporation

Kristin Smith '91 Bus Senior Vice President & Chief Counsel, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company

Stephen Snyder '79 Eng Retired Managing Partner, Accenture (Comms/High Tech/Energy)

Kathryn Sutton '85 Lib Retired Partner, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius

Tony Talbert '99 Eng Partner, The Shidler Group

Joseph Versaggi '83 Bus Senior Vice President-Real Estate, Washington Capital Management

Edward Weber '92 Bus Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer, MLB Advanced Media, LP

James Wiggins '72 Com Retired Managing Director, Morgan Stanley & Co.

Christopher Wilson '06 Lib Senior Associate, Baker Botts LLP

Thomas Wilson '91 Lib Managing Partner, Frederickson Partners

Brenna Wist '77 HHD Retired Partner, KPMG

Jack Yoskowitz '89 Lib Litigation Partner, Seward & Kissel LLP

Scholar Alumni Society Board (SASB)

The Scholar Alumni Society Board is the governing body of the Scholar Alumni Society, an affiliate group of the Penn State Alumni Association. Board members lead efforts to achieve the mission of uniting and connecting alumni of the Schreyer Honors College by engaging and supporting alumni and current Scholars by giving of their time, talent, and treasure, working directly with College staff.

They sponsor the Scholar Alumni & Friends Tailgate, Homecoming Pre-Parade Tailgate, Mentoring With Honors, and Connect Networking & Career Day and serve as a strategic partner in the Alumni Admissions Interview Program for which they were recognized with the 2019 PSAA Volunteer Group Award for Young Alumni Involvement. Board members endowed the SASB Future Leaders Scholarship for upper-division Scholars demonstrating leadership in the College.

The Board meets quarterly — during the spring and fall at University Park, and winter and summer via conference call. Committees focused on Alumni & Student Engagement and Career Development & Mentorship hold monthly conference calls. Eighteen at-large members serve three-year terms and are joined by a faculty representative and a student representative. The President of the SASB sits on Alumni Council. Applications for membership are announced each fall.

Executive Board Members

Natalie Keller '17 Agr President Senior Food Scientist, La Colombe Coffee Roasters

Kathryn Pruss Zeltwanger '98 Lib Vice-President Deputy General Counsel, Armstrong Group

Alayna Auerbach '15 Bus Chair, Student Engagement Committee M&A Management Consultant, MBO

Brian Harkless '95 Eng Chair, Alumni Engagement Committee Command Property Officer, NAVAIR (US Navy)

Eleni Kornblatt '98 Bus Co-Chair, Career Development & Mentorship Committee Vice President, Commercial Strategy and Marketing, Dynavax Technologies

Michael O'Connor '05 Eng Co-Chair, Career Development & Mentorship Committee Senior Counsel, Kraken Cryptocurrency Exchange

Board Members

Samuel Bonsall '04 Lib, '04g Bus Faculty Representative Deloitte & Touche Teaching Excellence Professor in Accounting, Penn State Smeal College of Business

Lori Feathers '90 Lib Co-Owner and Book Buyer, Interabang Books

Nikolai Foreman '14 Bus Director, Environmental Markets Research, Green Trading Capital

Olivia Francois '14 Agr Exam Developer, The National Restaurant Association

Asia Grant '17 Bus Founder, Redoux

John Hemmer '03 Eng Patent Attorney and Partner, Morgan Lewis

Basel Kayyali '96 Eng Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company

Emily Kowey Roth '12 Lib Associate General Counsel, Aramark

Kristin Lambert '14 Agr, '19g Medicine Pediatric Resident Physician, Cincinnati Children's Hospital

Jared Edgar McKnight '11 A&A, Lib senior associate and designer, WRT Design

Aryath Narayanamangalam '22 Eng Student Representative President, Schreyer Student Council

Aleks Radovic-Moreno '05 Eng Partner, Longwood Fund

Nikhil Shekher '16 Bus Technology Investment Banking Associate, Jefferies

Faculty Advisory Committee (FAC)

The Faculty Advisory Committee (FAC) consists of senior faculty members from a variety of disciplines that advise the Schreyer Honors College on academic policies and programming.

Sarah Ades Associate Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Associate Dean, The Graduate School

Seth Blumsack Associate Professor, Energy and Mineral Engineering

Samuel Bonsall Deloitte & Touche Teaching Excellence Professor, Accounting

Colleen Connolly-Ahern Associate Professor, Advertising and Public Relations

Ekaterina Haskins Professor, Communication Arts and Sciences

Zaryab Iqbal Associate Dean, Schreyer Honors College

Sara Jimenez Rincon

Helen Kamens Associate Professor, Biobehavioral Health

Angela Linse Executive Director and Associate Dean, Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence

David McBride Professor Emeritus, African American Studies and African American History

Robert Melton Professor, Advertising and Public Relations

Eduardo Navas Associate Research Professor, School of Visual Arts

Jacqueline O'Connor Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Rebecca Passonneau Professor, Computer Science and Engineering

Richard Robinett Professor, Physics

Hans Schmidt Associate Professor, Communications

Aissa Wade Professor, Mathematics

Andrew Zydney Professor, Chemical Engineering

Ethics Committee

The Ethics Committee consists of a group of faculty interested in helping the Schreyer Honors College incorporate ethics into the Scholar experience.

Jeffrey Catchmark Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Agricultural and Biological Engineering Affiliated Faculty, Rock Ethics Institute

Jennifer Eury Clinical Assistant Professor, Management and Organization Affiliated Faculty, Rock Ethics Institute

Joshua Inwood Associate Professor, Geography Senior Research Associate, Rock Ethics Institute

Hil Malatino Assistant Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Philosophy Research Associate, Rock Ethics Institute

Ted Toadvine Nancy Tuana Director, Rock Ethics Institute Associate Professor, Philosophy

Alan Wagner Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering Research Associate, Rock Ethics Institute