Women’s History Month Leadership Awards
Deadline is Feb. 11 to nominate an outstanding woman

The Student Activities and Athletics Department invites you to nominate an outstanding woman for our 2010 Women’s History Month Leadership Awards. This award recognizes academic excellence and civic involvement among our women students.
 
Submit your TYPED, double-spaced nomination to Dr. Timeka Thomas Rashid, Director, in the Student Activities Office, Nestor Hall 116, by February 11. For more information, please call Sabrina Ayers-Holmes at 287-2637.
 
You can download a nomination form here (.pdf) or pick one up at the following locations starting Jan. 19:

• Student Activities office, Nestor Hall 116
• DX Bookstore
• ERC/Library
• Student Assistance Center in Madison Hall
• Advising Services in Aquinas Hall
• Financial Aid in Rhodes Hall

The award ceremony will take place at 12:30 p.m. March 3 in the Columbus State Conference Center ballroom. This year’s theme is “The Mind, Body and Spirit of Healthy Leadership,” and the keynote speaker will be Dr. Teresa Long, commissioner of the Columbus Health Department.
 
Long started with the board in 1986, serving as medical director and assistant health commissioner, before taking the top job in 2002. Before coming to Columbus, she served on the front lines of the emerging AIDS epidemic as a physician specialist with the San Francisco Department of Public Health. More recently, she spearheaded Columbus’ response to the H1N1 virus.
 
Previous winners have been community volunteers, mothers, entrepreneurs and scholars. They have overcome obstacles such as injury, abuse—or just excelled despite their busy lives.