Associate Director for Sustainability Research and Associate Professor of Architecture, Penn State

With graduate degrees in architecture and structural engineering, Corey Gracie-Griffin is the Associate Director for Sustainability Research at Penn State as well as an Associate Professor of Architecture. His research focuses on how to make new and existing buildings healthier, more productive, and resilient while simultaneously reducing their environmental impact with a recent emphasis on carbon-storing structural materials including mass timber and hemp-lime.

With over 30 peer-reviewed publications, Gracie-Griffin has secured more than $1.5M in external funding from a wide range of sources including federal and state agencies, foundations, and industry partners. His teaching has been nationally recognized as a model for advancing sustainability in higher education and architectural practice by AIA, ACSA, and Architecture 2030.