CAFE Extension Faculty
Center for Agriculture, Food, and the Environment (CAFE) Extension Faculty are UMass Amherst faculty members located within academic departments. In addition to their teaching duties, the academic research conducted by Extension Faculty is integrated with educational programs, resources, tools or technologies that meet the needs of citizens, communities, organizations, businesses, government agencies, or policy-makers. Extension Faculty portfolios are diverse but they hold in common a responsibility to conduct, disseminate and apply research in practical ways so as to address some of our Commonwealth’s most pressing needs. All CAFE Extension Faculty are listed below and you can find more information on each of them by consulting their Profiles or Personal Webpages.
![Dwayne Breger Dwayne Breger](https://ag.umass.edu/sites/ag.umass.edu/files/styles/230x230/public/faculty-staff/dwayne_breger_2.jpg?itok=2ivo_kHW&c=2e3a94b3aca8573ac765ab57b96b8194)
![Paul Catanzaro Paul Catanzaro](https://ag.umass.edu/sites/ag.umass.edu/files/styles/230x230/public/faculty-staff/professor_paul_catanzaro-800x533.jpg?itok=qmxcAEW8&c=f06672582b120f3c267c83a2ed656ba9)
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![Rick Harper Rick Harper](https://ag.umass.edu/sites/ag.umass.edu/files/styles/230x230/public/faculty-staff/rick_harper_2.jpg?itok=3kXFF2Od&c=30dbf6fb205367f9023cc619598e549d)
![Extension Associate Professor Masoud Hashemi Masoud Hashemi](https://ag.umass.edu/sites/ag.umass.edu/files/styles/230x230/public/faculty-staff/masoud_hashemi.jpg?itok=J_67x-qL&c=1469a91dfe921bb4e875663f09d80bd6)
![Extension Assistant Professor Christine Hatch Christine Hatch](https://ag.umass.edu/sites/ag.umass.edu/files/styles/230x230/public/faculty-staff/hatch_2.jpg?itok=S43OqDzp&c=aa84094ee3b7e591d976e701b8168a78)
![Scott Jackson Scott Jackson, Extension Associate Professor](https://ag.umass.edu/sites/ag.umass.edu/files/styles/230x230/public/faculty-staff/jackson02.jpg?itok=MGc0NRrc&c=930bdefba49f9a3a94fc58598f2cdd0f)
![Peter Jeranyama Peter Jeranyama](https://ag.umass.edu/sites/ag.umass.edu/files/styles/230x230/public/faculty-staff/peter-jeranyama.jpg?itok=X-hsnMAs&c=4d17e3a900d37335fae6ff662111c046)
![Katie Kahl Katie Kahl](https://ag.umass.edu/sites/ag.umass.edu/files/styles/230x230/public/faculty-staff/katie_kahl_2022.jpg?itok=kpY8axkq&c=13406291396cfe0da2c86d556ab4c42a)
![Extension Assistant Professor Amanda Kinchla Amanda Kinchla](https://ag.umass.edu/sites/ag.umass.edu/files/styles/230x230/public/faculty-staff/amanda_kinchla_1_0.jpg?itok=DNL7OMmL&c=f3dff5f503f290f96876d20bb166e98e)
![Assistant Professor, Turf Entomology Olga Kostromytska](https://ag.umass.edu/sites/ag.umass.edu/files/styles/230x230/public/faculty-staff/olga_k_3.jpg?itok=SShV1yfx&c=7a9d3fac166842135b61f9206e001c5b)
![Extension Assistant Professor Jianyu Li](https://ag.umass.edu/sites/ag.umass.edu/files/styles/230x230/public/faculty-staff/jianyu_li_400x400.png?itok=g9jHVcxT&c=fca690c28f3148226ba10bf3df52390c)
![Giverson Mupambi Giverson Mupambi](https://ag.umass.edu/sites/ag.umass.edu/files/styles/230x230/public/faculty-staff/giverson_0.jpg?itok=U5jt2dpu&c=9281110b9adc3d1451ada27eed460df9)
![Jaime Piñero Jaime Piñero](https://ag.umass.edu/sites/ag.umass.edu/files/styles/230x230/public/faculty-staff/jaime_pinero_1.jpg?itok=DBdP4C0l&c=9052dd2f77f6a532756d4e238f476f88)
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