Dr. Jennifer L. Schneider, CIH is the Eugene H. Fram Chair of Applied Critical Thinking in Academic Affairs (2015-) and a professor in the Department of Civil Engineering Technology, Environmental Management and Safety at RIT. She also leads the Collaboratory for Resiliency and Recovery at RIT, a multidisciplinary research group that specializes in the data-to-decision pipeline for community resilience. She earned her Sc.D. from UMASS Lowell, College of Engineering, her MS in Industrial Hygiene from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, and her BA in Comprehensive Science from Roberts Wesleyan. She also has served on the local HAZMAT team and comes from a family of first responders. Her research interests include hazardous material control, critical infrastructure emergency planning and disaster management, the application of risk analysis and decision systems for community-level critical infrastructure, and the impact on emergency management systems and target capabilities. She also studies exposure assessment and the modeling of exposure scenarios, particularly hazardous material emergencies and response planning. Multidimensional sustainability and the analysis of sector-based corporate sustainability-related activities and management systems are also an area of interest.
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Dr. Jennifer L. Schneider, CIH is the Eugene H. Fram Chair of Applied Critical Thinking in Academic Affairs (2015-) and a professor in the Department of Civil Engineering Technology, Environmental Management and Safety at RIT. She also leads the Collaboratory for Resiliency and Recovery at RIT, a multidisciplinary research group that specializes in the data-to-decision pipeline for community resilience. She earned her Sc.D. from UMASS Lowell, College of Engineering, her MS in Industrial Hygiene from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, and her BA in Comprehensive Science from Roberts Wesleyan. She also has served on the local HAZMAT team and comes from a family of first responders. Her research interests include hazardous material control, critical infrastructure emergency planning and disaster management, the application of risk analysis and decision systems for community-level critical infrastructure, and the impact on emergency management systems and target capabilities. She also studies exposure assessment and the modeling of exposure scenarios, particularly hazardous material emergencies and response planning. Multidimensional sustainability and the analysis of sector-based corporate sustainability-related activities and management systems are also an area of interest.
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