Levon's research focuses on the STEM career development of underrepresented minorities, mentoring of females and URM graduate students in STEM, and the role of historically Black land-grant institutions in fostering the STEM success of females and underrepresented minorities. He is also Director of the Mentoring@Purdue (M@P) program which is designed to increase the number of women and URMs receiving post-secondary STEM-based agricultural and life sciences degrees in Purdue University’s College of Agriculture. He is a proud alumnus of two HBCUs (B.S. from Florida A&M University and M.S. from North Carolina A&T State University). He received his Ph.D. from The Pennsylvania State University.