Linda Major Wins National Public Health Award
Released on 03/01/2004, at 12:00 AM
Office of University Communications
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Lincoln, Neb., March 1, 2004 -- Linda Major, director of Student Involvement and project director of the NU Directions Campus-Community Coalition at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, was awarded the 2003 College-Based Leadership Award from the American Public Health Association at the association's 131st annual meeting last fall in San Francisco.
The award honors individuals who demonstrate outstanding efforts in college-based campaigns to reduce alcohol, tobacco or other drug use among college-age students. The association is the oldest and largest organization of public health professionals in the world, representing more than 50,000 members from more than 50 occupations of public health. The recipient of the College-Based Leadership Award is chosen from peers in the association's Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug section.
At the ceremony, Major was acknowledged as "a model of how to meld research, scientific knowledge and advocacy practice to form an extremely sophisticated effort to reduce alcohol problems at her campus, in the surrounding city and now, statewide."
Major has worked on community alcohol issues for the past 20 years and was a founding member of Lincoln's Responsible Hospitality Council. More recently, she spearheaded the creation of a Web-based server-seller training program for the state of Nebraska that is being adopted by several other states.
Major holds leadership positions for several national college prevention groups, and regularly speaks at national conferences on college alcohol prevention and responsible hospitality.
CONTACT: Linda Major, Director, Student Involvement, (402) 472-8154