College Drinking: Changing the Culture is the recipient of the National Association of
Government Communicators (NAGC) 2007 Blue Pencil & Gold Screen Award of Excellence.
This annual international awards program recognizes superior government communication products
and their producers. It is the only national awards competition designed for goverment communicators.
The NAGC is a not-for-profit professional organization for writers, editors, and public affairs
specialists in local, state, and federal government.
College Drinking: Changing the Culture is the recipient of the World Wide Web Health Awards-Merit Award for Fall/Winter 2006. This award program gives a "seal of quality" for electronic health information by the Health Information Resource Center (HIRC), a national clearinghouse for consumer health information programs and materials.
College Drinking: Changing the Culture has won the 2005 Aesculapius Award of Excellence-World Wide Web Site. The annual award is named for the ancient Greek God of healing, Aesculapius, and is considered to be quite prestigious in the field of health Web sites. The award, given by the Health Improvement Institute, is intended to encourage and recognize excellence in communicating health information to the public.
The MarCom Creative Awards is an international competition for marketing and communication professionals involved in the concept, writing and design of marketing and communication programs and print, visual and audio materials. The Mission of the MarCom Creative Awards is to honor excellence and recognize the creativity and hard work of marketing and communications professionals.
Sponsored by spiderfood.net, the Spider Award is meant
to recognize those web sites and individuals that achieve Top Ten ranking
with the major search engines through ethical and professional search
engine optimization strategies.
The World Wide Web Health Awards, which recognizes the best
health-related Web sites for consumers and professionals twice a year, has
given CollegeDrinkingPrevention.gov its Silver Award for Fall/Winter 2004. This award
program gives a "seal of quality" for electronic health information by the
Health Information Resource Center (HIRC), a national clearinghouse for
consumer health information programs and materials. The site was awarded in
the "Health Promotion/Disease & Injury Prevention Information" class for
offering information to its audience of professionals as a government
agency.
College Drinking: Changing the Culture received the Weekly Link Award November 21 - 27, 2004. The Weekly Link Award has been given every Sunday, since January 2002, to outstanding Web sites of the Linksgiving.com's collection that distinguish themselves for
originality of concept, easiness of navigation, pleasant design, clarity and completeness of information, browser-independent accessibility, and that give visitors the sensation to really have found what they are looking for, make them feel at home and want to come back again, give a considerable contribution to the Internet community.
The World Wide Web Health Awards, which recognizes the best
health-related Web sites for consumers and professionals twice a year, has
given CollegeDrinkingPrevention.gov its Bronze Award for Spring 2003 and 2004. This award
program gives a "seal of quality" for electronic health information by the
Health Information Resource Center (HIRC), a national clearinghouse for
consumer health information programs and materials. The site was awarded in
the "Health Promotion/Disease & Injury Prevention Information" class for
offering information to its audience of professionals as a government
agency.
College Drinking: Changing the Culture has been awarded the
College Parent Magazine Seal of Approval and is being featured in their
magazine as a special resource on campus life issues. College Parent
Magazine is dedicated to enhancing the higher education experience of
parents with students currently attending or preparing for college by
providing a source of complete, authoritative and easy to use
college-related information. Sites chosen to bear their Seal of Approval
only after meeting the College Parent Magazine's tough editorial, design,
functionality, and relevancy criteria.
College Drinking: Changing the Culture has won the "2003-2004
Golden Web Award" from the Internet Association of Webmasters and Designers
in recognition of creativity, integrity and excellence on the Web.
College Drinking: Changing the Culture has won the 2002
Aesculapius Award of Excellence-World Wide Web Site. The annual award is
named for the ancient Greek God of healing, Aesculapius, and is considered
to be quite prestigious in the field of health Web sites. This year marks
the eleventh year of the annual awards competition. This award was
established by the Health Improvement Institute, a non-profit, tax-exempt
organization based in Bethesda, Maryland, to promote excellence in
informing consumer lifestyle choices and health care decisions.
On November 21, 2002, College Drinking: Changing the Culture was highlighted
by World Village as the Family Site of the Day. The Family Site of the Day
was created to highlight other web sites that produce quality content
appropriate for family viewing and participation.
CollegeDrinkingPrevention.gov has just received the Bronze
Lone Star Design Award because it is an aesthetically pleasing, easy to
navigate, well-designed, user-friendly Web site with informative and
interactive content that shows excellent spelling and grammar.
Reviewed in May 2002, College Drinking: Changing the Culture
has received a 4-star review from the Tufts University Child & Family
WebGuide in their Health/Mental Health category, under drugs and alcohol.
The Child & Family WebGuide describes and evaluates web sites that contain
research-based information about child development. Sites awarded are
selected from thousands of sites about children, based primarily on the
quality of the information provided. The goal of the WebGuide is to give the
public easy access to the best child development information on the Web.
The World Wide Web Health Awards, which recognizes the best
health-related Web sites for consumers and professionals twice a year, has
given CollegeDrinkingPrevention.gov its Spring 2002 Merit Award. This award
program gives a "seal of quality" for electronic health information by the
Health Information Resource Center (HIRC), a national clearinghouse for
consumer health information programs and materials. The site was awarded in
the "Health Promotion/Disease & Injury Prevention Information" class for
offering information to its audience of professionals as a government
agency.
The Washington, DC chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) has awarded the College Drinking: Changing the Culture site a 2002 Silver Inkwell award in the Electronic, Online, and Interactive Communication, Internet (World Wide Web) Site - nonprofit category. The site was chosen because it meets the highest of standards and is considered an outstanding example of communications excellence, as judged by peers from IABC chapters around the nation.
College Drinking: Changing the Culture Web site has been selected as a "Best
Bet" on the USA TODAY Education Web site from July 2-8, 2002. Each week the USA TODAY Education online staff selects three "Best Bet"
sites they feel would be of educational value to their audience of subscribers and guests. These sites are listed on the USA TODAY Education home page
with a brief description and a link to the site. The site is honored as fewer than 150 sites are selected each year as USA TODAY Education "Best
Bet" Web sites.
College Drinking: Changing the Culture has won the Advanced Programming Concepts Web Development Excellence Award! This award recognizes
the advanced programming concepts used to create the site such as development in ASP.net, use of Access XP database and JavaScript for user controls,
rotation of facts and policies using 'post-it notes', and the use of Flash to create a cool 'Interactive Body' and eCards in the Student section.
This award certifies the site as a legitimate leader in web development excellence using advanced programming concepts in design, coding, or graphics.
The College Drinking Prevention Web site has been nominated for the Disability Network Outstanding Website Award for 2002. Their
Staff has reviewed the Web site and finds it very informative and well done, with a clear reflection of dedication and hard work.
College Drinking Prevention is an Award World "Special
Winner" and has just been added to their directory as a top resource for
health and drug information.
The College Drinking Prevention site has been accepted into the
Healthlinks.Net directory, the largest "Free" comprehensive online directory
available specifically for the use of healthcare consumers and professionals
on the Internet. Sites are selected based on meeting the following
criterion: content of interest to healthcare professionals; tone and
presentation maintained at a professional level; site structure, navigation
and graphic design executed at a professional level; and a high level of
integrity and credibility.
The site was picked as hot site of the week on April 13, 2002. The award recognized the site for its "Sections for parents, high school counselors, and students give the latest statistics and information about drinking and youth. For students, the materials are often interactive and show how alcohol affects different parts of the body, alcohol myths, and how much alcohol is costing you, in calories and in dollars. You can also enter information into online software that lets you look at how drinking behavior affects your BAC (Blood Alcohol Content)." Blue Web'n is a searchable library of about 1200 outstanding Internet learning sites categorized by subject area, audience, and type (lessons, activities, projects, resources, references, & tools).
The College Drinking Prevention site is "100% Safe" in compliance with the
SafeSurf Rating Standard. The SafeSurf Rating Standard is a voluntary
rating system designed to protect children, as well as the first amendment
rights of their parents. It was developed with input from thousands of
parents and Net citizens, worldwide.
Canada's Nu-Horizons Design Studio has awarded the site "Resource Award" based on its ease of navigation, obvious hard work, and entertaining content.
Canada's Nu-Horizons Design Studio has awarded the site the "Education Award" based on its ease of navigation,
obvious hard work, and entertaining content.
The site has qualified for the "Critical Mass Award" based on its
excellent design, beautiful original graphics and artwork, great photos, and
for providing visitors with content that is informative, entertaining,
presented well and easy to access. The site is considered, "a worthy
enterprise and a positive contribution to the Web."
The College Drinking Prevention site has just won the "Excellent Site
Award" from Internet Tips. This award is given to great sites that load fast, use
good navigation, offer good content with no broken links, and have good use
of graphics and scripting.
The College Drinking Prevention site has just won the "Golden Web Award" from the
Internet Association of Webmasters and Designers in recognition of
creativity, integrity and excellence on the Web.
Personally approved by paramedics, the site has been praised as an "outstanding" resource, with good content and layout, by the Emergency
Medical Services Index for 2002.
Neovizion awarded the College Drinking Prevention site the Bronze Award for its
creative design, layout, clear graphics, page download, user friendly
interface, browser
compatibility, overall professional appearance and originality.
Task Force Awards
The NIAAA Task Force on College Drinking received a "Green Light" award from the Automobile Club of New York, an affiliate of the Automobile Association of America. In citing the statistics outlined in the Task Force report, the club applauded NIAAA for "calling attention to this perennial tragedy."
The NIH Director's Award recognizes superior performance or special efforts significantly beyond the regular duty requirements, and directly related to fulfilling the mission of the National Institutes of Health. The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism's College Team received this award for developing and implementing NIAAA's College Drinking Prevention Initiative, thus advancing underage drinking prevention. Team members include: Stephen Long, Fred Donodeo, Geoffrey Laredo, Gayle Boyd, Ph.D., Vivian Faden, Ph.D., Joan Romaine, Amy Matush, Kelly Green Kahn, Ann Bradley, Nancy Colladay, Tim Crilley, Kathryn Grady, Diane Miller, Roberta Wilhelm and John Bowersox.