Faculty

About our faculty:

Our award-winning faculty has decades’ worth of experience educating students in the classroom and in research settings, preparing future generations of professionals and researchers in the field. Faculty expertise extends to many pressing public health issues such as environmental contamination, environmental toxicology, ecological risk assessment and regulatory issues, air quality and pollution and their associated risks to cardiovascular health and asthma, and prenatal environmental exposures and their influence on health outcomes via epigenetic processes.

Faculty directory:

  • C. Marjorie Aelion

    Professional Title:
    Professor and Dean of the School of Public Health and Health Sciences
    Department:
    Environmental Health Sciences
    Email:
    maelion@schoolph.umass.edu
    Telephone:
    413-545-2526
    Campus Address:
    106 Arnold House
    Education:

    B.Sc., University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1980; M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983; Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 1988

  • Edward J. Calabrese

    Professional Title:
    Professor
    Department:
    Environmental Health Sciences
    Email:
    edwardc@schoolph.umass.edu
    Telephone:
    413-545-3164
    Campus Address:
    Morrill I, N344
    Education:

    B.S., Bridgewater State, 1968; M.A., University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1972; Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1973; A.T.S.

  • Salvatore R. DiNardi

    Professional Title:
    Professor Emeritus
    Department:
    Environmental Health Sciences
    Email:
    sdinardi@schoolph.umass.edu
    Personal Website:
    www.dinardi-cih.com
    Education:

    B.A., Hofstra University; Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • Paul Kostecki

    Professional Title:
    Professor and Director, Division of Environmental Health Sciences, and Associate Director, Northeast Regional Environmental Public Health Center
    Department:
    Environmental Health Sciences
    Email:
    pkostecki@research.umass.edu
    Telephone:
    413-577-9009
    Campus Address:
    Morrill Science Center I, N342
    Education:

    B.S., University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1973; M.S., University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1978; Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1981

  • Richard E. Peltier

    Professional Title:
    Assistant Professor
    Department:
    Environmental Health Sciences
    Email:
    rpeltier@schoolph.umass.edu
    Telephone:
    413-545-1317
    Campus Address:
    149 Goessmann
    Personal Website:
    http://people.umass.edu/aerosollab
    Education:

    B.S., University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1997; M.P.H., Columbia University, 2001; Ph.D., Georgia Tech, 2007; Postdoctoral Fellow, NYU School of Medicine, 2007-2009

  • J. Richard Pilsner

    Professional Title:
    Assistant Professor
    Department:
    Environmental Health Sciences
    Email:
    rpilsner@schoolph.umass.edu
    Telephone:
    413-545-0036
    Campus Address:
    149F Goessmann
    Personal Website:
    http://jrichardpilsner.com/
    Education:

    B.A., Hamline University, 1995; M.P.H., Columbia University, 2003; Ph.D., Columbia University, 2007Environmental Epigenetics, Toxicology, Nutrition, DNA Methylation, Molecular Epidemiology

  • Christine A. Rogers

    Professional Title:
    Research Assistant Professor & Assistant Director of Academic Safety & Environmental Health
    Department:
    Environmental Health Sciences
    Email:
    car@ehs.umass.edu
    Telephone:
    413-545-5112
    Campus Address:
    Morrill Science Center I, 239A
    Education:

    B.Sc., University of Toronto, 1989; Ph.D., University of Toronto, 1996

  • Alicia R. Timme-Laragy

    Professional Title:
    Assistant Professor
    Department:
    Environmental Health Sciences
    Email:
    aliciat@schoolph.umass.edu
    Telephone:
    413-545-7423
    Campus Address:
    Goessmann 149C
    Education:

    B.A., Franklin and Marshall College, 2000; Ph.D., Duke University, 2007; Post-doctoral, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

  • Ezra Wood

    Professional Title:
    Research Assistant Professor
    Department:
    Environmental Health Sciences
    Email:
    ezrawood@schoolph.umass.edu
    Telephone:
    413-545-1778
    Campus Address:
    149D Goessmann
    Education:

    B.A., Rutgers University, 1997; Ph.D., University of California – Berkeley, 2004; Postdoctoral research, Aerodyne Research, Inc., 2005 - 2006