Featured as one of the important teachers of the next generation of public health experts, the UT School of Public Health's Stephen H. Linder, Ph.D., won a prestigious Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation Award. His award is one of 15 made annually to Texas professors for superior teaching at the college level.

"Dr. Linder is an outstanding teacher, not because of what he teaches but how he teaches and motivates students to think," said Dr. Guy Parcel, Dean, The University of Texas School of Public Health
at Houston.

Linder, an associate professor at the school of public health and interim director of the school's new Institute for Health Policy, teaches in a doctoral program called "Management and Policy Sciences."

More than 160 public and private Texas colleges and universities were invited to submit applications for the 2004 award, and over 90 were received. Each application includes nomination by the president of the institution, plus comments from the applicant, his and her peers, and former students.