Announcement | 16. May 2005
Bruce Link: Presidential Teaching Award
Bruce Link, Co-Director, Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholars Program, is one of the five faculty recipients of the 2005 Presidential Teaching Awards at Columbia University. Established in 1996, the presidential awards honor the best of Columbia's teachers for the influence they have on the development of their students and their part in maintaining the University's longstanding reputation for educational excellence. Link is a highly respected epidemiologist and sociologist who in the past year both became a fellow of the Institute of Medicine and received the most prestigious award from the mental health section of the American Sociological Association. A leader on the Health Sciences campus in the teaching of research methodology, Link serves as a mentor to post-doctoral fellows in the RWJ Health & Society Scholars Program, co-directed with ISERP Director Peter Bearman, and is also Director of the Psychiatric Epidemiology Training Program at the Mailman School of Public Health. The award was conferred at Commencement 2005.
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