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The UW-Madison PACE Project has undergone several transformations since its inception in 1996. During the first six years of the UW-Madison grant project, it was called the RWJ Project. When the RWJ grant was renewed in September of 2002, the name of the project was changed to PACE: Reducing the Consequences of High-Risk Drinking, to reflect the four pillars of its work: policy, alternatives, community, and education. The RWJ grant ended in 2005 and the PACE Project is now internally funded by the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 1993, and again in 1997, Harvard School of Public Health professor Henry Wechsler conducted the College Alcohol Survey (CAS), a national survey of college alcohol use funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). Following Wechsler’s research, the RWJ Foundation launched the “A Matter of Degree” (AMOD) program, which provided grants to curb binge drinking on college campuses identified by Wechsler’s research as “high-risk.” AMOD was developed as an initiative to reduce high-risk drinking and its second-hand effects on college campuses by promoting the collaboration and cooperation of campuses and communities to address those factors that promote heavy alcohol consumption. The UW-Madison PACE Project originated as part of this AMOD grant. UW-Madison was among the first six sites selected to be a part of the AMOD program in 1996. An additional four sites were added to the program in the subsequent year. Other universities that have received “A Matter of Degree” grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation include: University of Vermont,
Burlington Source: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/faculty/henry-wechsler/
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PACE Background 
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To get involved
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