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Linda Costigan Lederman, Ph.D., is professor of health and human communication in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at the Arizona State University. Prof. Lederman's research focuses on the relationship among the domains of human interaction, experiential learning and various health issues, including, alcohol and other drugs, tobacco, domestic violence and leadership and change in organizational life, and her work has been funded by grants from the U.S. Department of Education Safe and Drug Free School Program ($425,000; $250,000; $98,000), National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) ($6 million), the U.S. Department of Justice ($400,000), the N.J. Consortium ($60,000) and the U.S. Department of Education Fund for the Improvement of Post Secondary Education (FIPSE) ($250,000). She has won awards from the U.S. Department of Education for a Model Program and as mentor of the Model Program Award for another university. In August 2006, Prof. Ledeman was selected founding director of the Institute for Social Science Research at ASU. In May 2007, Prof. Lederman was appointed Dean of Social Sciences for ASU's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Prof. Lederman will manage 14 academic units, including the School of Geographical Sciences, the School of Global Studies, the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication, the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, the School of Justice and Social Inquiry and the School of Social and Family Dynamics; and the departments of political science and transborder studies. Additionally, the division includes six programs: aerospace studies, military science studies, African and African-American studies, American Indian studies, Asian Pacific-American studies, and women and gender studies. Prof. Lederman is an award winning teacher whose first book, New Dimensions, was one of the first communication texts in interpersonal communication to take an experiential approach. Her most recent book is Changing the Culture of College Drinking (with Lea Stewart), the first scholarly communication book on communication and alcohol prevention. She is currently working on Readings in Health Communication. She received her degrees at Brown University (A.B.), Columbia University (M.A.) and Rutgers University (Ph.D.). Prof. Lederman was Inaugural Director of the Center for Communication and Health Issues at Rutgers University where she served on the faculty of the Department of Communication for more than twenty five years, and held joint faculty appointments in the School of Education and the Center of Alcohol Studies. Rutgers presented her in 2003 with its Distinguished Public Service Award. Dr. Lederman has been interviewed on CNN, NBC and local NY and NJ radio and television programs talking about her work to reduce dangerous drinking on college campuses. The Student Voices Project (SVP) is a research report on students' perceptions of dangerous drinking and University policy banning alcohol use on campus at ASU that was prepared by Prof. Linda Lederman and students in Com601 Health Communication (spring, 2006) and presented to the ASU Alcohol Task Force. link to Student Voices Project |
