Stepping Up Project

The Stepping Up Project is a community and campus coalition to reduce binge drinking and its harmful effects. The project has been given a 6-year, $830,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the nation's leading health philanthropy, to try a new approach to solving the problem of binge drinking among college students - something called the "environmental approach". The University of Iowa is one of 10 universities across the nation who are receiving funds from the Robert Wood Johnson for this effort. Those efforts are being aided by the American Medical Association, which is administering the program, and the Harvard School of Public Health, which is serving as the program's evaluator.