Associate Professor of Nutritional Physiology
Kevin Harvatine is an Associate Professor of Nutritional Physiology at Penn State University. He grew up on a dairy farm in Pennsylvania and received his BS in Animal Science from Penn State. He earned an MS from Michigan State University and PhD from Cornell University. His area of expertise is nutritional regulation of metabolism. Currently Dr. Harvatine investigates milk fat depression, fat supplements, and daily patterns of intake and milk synthesis. His lab conducts experiments ranging from applied dairy nutrition to mechanistic molecular biology experiments. He has authored or co-authored over 60 peer reviewed publications since 2009 and has spoken extensively at regional, national, and international conferences.