2013 National Health Information Merit Award to Self-Arthritis magazine issue which included Linda’s tai chi feature
Healthcare Reporter of the Year, OTR Global, 2005 and 2006
Addiction Studies Program for Journalists Scholarship, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, May 2001
Science Reporters Workshop Scholarship, American Chemistry Society, October 2001
1994-95 Columbia University Fellowships – Freedom Forum Scholarship, Jack K. Lippert Scholarship, Nate Haseltine Fellowship (Council for the Advancement of Science Writing), Rainforest Alliance Fellowship – Media Workshop in Guatemala
First Place HEMMY Award (Health Education Media Makers) for “Tobacco: Keep it Sacred” a video on traditional Native American and addictive tobacco use, 1999
DiCagno Hagen Prize for best investigative story on an environmental issue, Columbia University, 1995
Outstanding Project, Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition, for “Smoking: Hazardous to Their Health” video, 1991
National Park Service Commendation for lost hiker rescue, 1986