Kim Dude

Co-Investigator
dudek@missouri.edu

Kim Dude has been working at the University of Missouri-Columbia for the last 25 years where she serves as the Director of the Wellness Resource Center. Kim was recognized by the U.S. Department of Education's Network: Addressing Collegiate Alcohol and Other Drug Issues as the recipient of the Outstanding Contribution to the Field award in 2003. Kim has also been recognized by the Phoenix Programs in Columbia as the recipient of the Buck Buchanan Lifetime Service Award for her prevention efforts. The U.S. Department of Education's Higher Education Center named the University of Missouri's Wellness Resource Center as being a model prevention program in 2006. The Wellness Resource Center has been chosen as one of the top prevention programs in the country for 18 years by the Inter Association Task Force on Alcohol and other Substance Abuse Issues, and in 2006 was chosen as the number one alcohol abuse prevention program in the country. Kim has written and received grants from the U.S. Department of Education, the Missouri Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse, the Missouri Division of Highway Safety, Kansas City Community Foundation, the National Social Norms Resource Center and the NCAA. Kim is member of the state advisory council of the Missouri Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse, the Columbia Public Schools Alcohol and Drug Abuse Advisory Committee, the City of Columbia Substance Abuse Advisory Council and the U.S. Department of Education's National Safe and Drug Free Schools Advisory Committee.