Faculty
C. Marjorie Aelion, Ph.D.
Professor
Dean, School of Public Health and Health Sciences
Telephone: 545-2526
Email: maelion@schoolph.umass.edu
Campus Address: Arnold House, Room 106
Research interests include environmental contamination, soil contamination such as arsenic and health implications including mental retardation.
B.Sc. University of Massachusetts, Amherst 1980; M.S., Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, 1983; Ph.D. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 1988.
Edward J. Calabrese, Ph.D.
Professor
Telephone: 413-545-3164
Email: edwardc@schoolph.umass.edu
Campus Address: Morrill Science Center I, N340
Research and publications in environmental toxicology; emphasis on biological factors (i.e. genetic and nutritional factors) which enhance susceptibility to pollutant toxicity.
B.S., Bridgewater State, 1968; M.A., 1972; Ph.D., Massachusetts, 1973; D.A.T.S.
Paul Kostecki, Ph.D.
Professor
Telephone: 413-545-4610
Email: pkostecki@schoolph.umass.edu
Campus Address: Morrill Science Center I, N342
Research interests include regulatory issues and technical developments in the assessment and remediation of hydrocarbon contaminated soils, the evaluation of fish as toxicological models, and ecological risk assessment.
B.S., Massachusetts, 1973; M.S., 1978; Ph.D., Michigan, 1981.
Richard Peltier, MPH, PhD
Assistant Professor
Telephone: 413 545-1317
Email: rpeltier@schoolph.umass.edu
Campus Address: 149E Goessman
Research interests include field and laboratory measurements of aerosol exposures, exposure science, environmental engineering, and quantitative analysis of particulate matter chemical composition.
PhD – Atmospheric Chemistry, Dec 2007, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Atlanta, GA
Masters of Public Health – Environmental Health Sciences, Dec 2001, Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health New York, NY
B.S. Biology, May 1997, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA
J. Richard Pilsner, MPH, PhD
Assistant Professor
Telephone: 413 545-0036
Email: rpilsner@schoolph.umass.edu
Campus Address: 149F Goessman
Website: http://www.jrichardpilsner.com/
Research interests: J. Richard Pilsner is a molecular epidemiologistcommitted to investigating how environmental and nutritional factors influence health outcomes via epigenetic processes.
2007 Ph.D., Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY.
2003 M.P.H., Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of
Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY.
1995 B.A., Environmental Sciences, Hamline University, St. Paul, MN
Ezra Wood, PhD 
Research Assistant Professor
Telephone: 413 545-1778
Email: ezrawood@schoolph.umass.edu
Campus Address: 149D Goessman
Research interests include indoor air quality, atmospheric chemistry, aviation and the environment, and pollutant emissions.
B.A. Chemistry, Rutgers University 1997
Ph.D., Atmospheric Chemistry, University of California-Berkeley, 2004
Professor Emeriti
Salvatore R. Dinardi, Ph.D
Professor Emeritus
Email: sdinardi@schoolph.umass.edu
sdinardi@sc.rr.com
Gary S. Moore, Dr. PH
Professor Emeritus
Email: gmoore@schoolph.umass.edu
Jesse Ortiz, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Email: jsortiz@schoolph.umass.edu
