Background
Sandman, Peter M. was born on April 18, 1945 in New York City. Son of Howard Edwin and Gertrude Leah (Orgel) Sandman.
consultant communication educator
Sandman, Peter M. was born on April 18, 1945 in New York City. Son of Howard Edwin and Gertrude Leah (Orgel) Sandman.
Bachelor in Psychology, Princeton University, 1967. Master of Arts in Communications, Stanford University, 1968. Doctor of Philosophy, Stanford University, 1971.
Reporter, Toronto (Ontario) Star, Canada, 1966;
stringer, Time, 1966-1967;
instructor committee, Stanford (California) U., 1968-1970;
instructor journalism, California State College, Hayward, 1970;
senior editor, The Magazine, 1970;
assistant professor, Ohio State University, Columbus, 1971-1972;
assistant professor natural resources, journalism, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1972-1975;
associate professor natural resources, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1975-1977;
associate professor committee, coordinator Cook College committee program, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1977-1983;
professor journalism, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1983-1994;
professor department human ecology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1992-1994;
Adjunct Professor, since 1994. Adjunct Professor television, radio Ithaca (New York) College, 1976, graduate program in pub.health Rutgers University, since 1986, department environmental and community medicine Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers University, since 1987. Advising committee environmental/occupational health information program 1984-1989.
Founder, director environmental committee research program New Jersey Agricultural Experimental Station, Rutgers University, 1986-1992. Visiting scholar urban and environmental policy Tufts U., Medford, Massachusetts, 1990-1991. Research professor George Perkins Marsh Institute, Clark University.
Committee county Environmental Defense Fund, since 1985. Board advisors graduate program in technical and science committee Drexel U., Philadelphia, since 1988. Consultant on committee American College of Physicians, 1976-1979, The Cousteau Society, 1977-1979,President Committee on the Accident at Three Mile Island.
Specialist in comm.coop. expert service United States Department of Agriculture, 1977-1986. Consultant risk commission office policy analysis Environmental Protection Agency, 1986-1988. Executive Committee Science Writing Educators Group,1978-1981.
Consultant Atlantic Richfield Company Chemical, Boise Cascade, Chevron, Ciba-Geigy, Consumers Power, Dow, Du Pont, Johnson and Johnson, Johnson Wax, Procter and Gamble, Union Carbide, others.
Board directors New Jersey Environmental Lobby, 1984-1990, Nuclear Dialogue Project, 1985-1990, president 1986-1990. Public information committee New Jersey chapter, American Cancer Society, 1981-1986, vice-chairman, 1983-1986. Communications coordinator New Jersey Campaign for a Nuclear Weapons Freeze, 1982-1985.
Socioeconomic subcommittee, committee on biotechnology agriculture division National Association State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, 1988-1990. Board advisors Environmental Scientists for Global Survival, 1988-1991. Science review panel, radium/radon advisory board New Jersey Department Environmental Protection, 1987-1988.
Committee to survey the health effects mustard gas and lewisite Institute Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, 1992. Member American Association of University Professors, American Civil Liberties Union (board directors New Jersey chapter 1984-1987), Environmental Defense Fund, National Association Professional Environmental Communicators, Science Writing Educators Group, Society for Risk Analysis, Society Environmental Journalists, International Association Public Participation Practitioners, Sigma Delta Chi.
Married Susan Marie Goertzel, June 18, 1967 (divorced 1975). Married Jody Sue Lanard, June 10, 1990. Children: Alison, Jennifer.
1 stepchild, James Sachs.