Diane S. Henshel

Diane S. Henshel serves as Associate Professor at Indiana University's Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, specializing in risk assessment of environmental pollutants' sub-lethal health effects on wildlife and humans. Trained as a neuroscientist, she has taught toxicology, risk assessment, and risk communication since joining the faculty in 1992 and maintains an active consulting practice through Henshel EnviroComm.

Her educational background includes:

• Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences-Neuroscience from Washington University, St. Louis (1987)
• B.S. in Biology from Brown University (1978)
• B.A. in English from Brown University (1978)

Henshel's research integrates environmental toxicology, policy analysis, and sustainability science, with growing emphasis on cybersecurity risk modeling. She examines pollutant impacts through field-laboratory correlations for wildlife (focusing on developmental and neuroendocrine effects) and population-level human health analyses incorporating socioeconomic factors with environmental contamination indicators. Her work bridges technical risk assessment and practical risk communication for community applications.

Publications from 1997-2014 reveal evolving research trajectories from traditional ecotoxicology toward interdisciplinary risk paradigms, with recent work exploring electromagnetic radiation effects and cybersecurity modeling while maintaining core environmental health investigations. Key thematic threads include oxidative stress mechanisms, cumulative risk assessment, and landscape-scale contamination-health correlations.

Her notable scientific recognition includes:

• Trustees Teaching Award, O'Neill School (2008)
• Presidential Citation, Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (2006)
• O'Neill Teaching Award for Undergraduate Instruction (2008, 2005)

Henshel serves as principal consultant at Henshel EnviroComm, providing technical support for environmental contamination issues, and contributes to national policy through advisory roles with the U.S.-Canada International Joint Commission, EPA, and National Research Council. As President of the International Society for Environmental Bioindicators and member of Indiana's Environmental Justice Advisory Committee, she bridges academic research with community and governmental applications.