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NEWS November
17, 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Jerome Saintjones, (256) 372-5607
AAMU Professor Being Considered for EPA
Panel
Huntsville, Ala. ---- An Alabama A&M
University community and regional planning professor is among a group
undergoing the final considerations for membership on a chief panel
of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Dr. Jacob Oluwoye, a sought-after transportation
and environmental health expert, is  being vetted by EPA’s Scientific
Advisory Board for membership on an important environmental justice
panel. The EPA is forming a variety of tools to help
identify communities of potential environmental justice (EJ)
concern. These EJ screening
tools use a variety of demographic and environmental variables,
combined in different ways.
Oluwoye received his B.S. degree in urban and
regional planning in 1979 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison; a
master’s degree in city planning in 1981 from Howard University in
Washington, D.C., and the Ph.D. degree in transportation in 1988
(multifunctional roads and road environment) from the University of
New South Wales, Kensington, NSW, Australia.
Dr. Oluwoye could offer the EPA needed expertise
in the areas of transportation of dangerous goods; decision support
GIS tool and air quality; human exposure to traffic air pollution;
greenhouse gas emissions from transport road environment and health
risk; environmental impact assessment; study design and statistical
support; chemical mixtures risk assessment including developing and
implementing statistical techniques useful for estimating risk
assessment of exposure to transporting of dangerous goods; technology
and environmental impact of transportation policy; environmentally
sustainable transport; statistical modeling of traffic air pollution;
and integration of mixtures environmental toxicology and statistics.
Oluwoye currently serves on the panels of various
Federal agencies, specifically the National Science Foundation (NSF)
and the Transportation Research Board. For additional information, please
contact Oluwoye at (256) 372-4994.
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