Levon Esters
Adjunct Professor, School of Integrative Plant Science
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Adjunct Professor, School of Integrative Plant Science
Dr. Levon Esters is adjunct professor in the School of Integrative Plant Science and Minority-Serving Institution (MSI) Partnership Advisor for the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Crop Improvement based at Cornell. At the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Crop Improvement, he leads the Thomas Wyatt Turner Fellowship, a graduate fellowship and faculty mentorship program that promotes collaboration between MSIs and Cornell University.
In May 2023 he became dean of the Graduate School and vice provost for graduate education at Penn State. He provides leadership and oversight across all of Penn State’s more than 200 graduate fields of study, including 109 research master’s degree programs, 99 professional master’s degree programs and 95 research doctoral programs. Prior to joining Penn State, he served as professor and associate dean for diversity, equity & inclusion and faculty affairs in the Purdue Polytechnic Institute at Purdue University.