Outstanding Academic Title, 2010
2010 CODIE Award Finalist for Best Online News Service
Global Issues in Context, an international news service and academic resource. In 2008 and 2009, K. Lee Lerner served as Editor-in-Chief and Brenda Wilmoth Lerner served as a senior editor for GIC content development. After launch of the online platform, K. Lee Lerner and Brenda Wilmoth Lerner became advisors and contributing editors for science and public health related issues
2007 CODIE Award: Best Online Science or Technology Site
Science in Context (SCIC), previously the Gale Science Resource Center, is continuously updated by LMG (London, Paris, Cambridge, www.lernermediaglobal.co.uk). Since 2003, K. Lee Lerner has served as the principal science advisor and contributing editor for this respected online science educational resource. LMG's continuous updating duties cover a range of resources including the Gale Encyclopedia of Science, the RUSA and Outstanding Academic Title award-winning Environmental Encyclopedia, and Macmillan Science Reference Series articles.
The venerable American Men and Women of Science remains without peer as a chronicle of scientific endeavor and achievement in the United States and Canada." -- WorldTrade Review Essays of Academic, Professional & Technical Books in the Humanities & Sciences
"Cadillac of scientific biography" -- Booklist
The venerable American Men and Women of Science, in publication since 1906 and -- as of 2016 -- across 34 editions profiles scientists, public health specialists, engineers, mathematicians, statisticians, and computer scientists of distinguished training, position, and/or achievement. Contributions to science are measured by publication in reputable scientific journals. For those whose work cannot be published due to governmental or industrial security, contributions are based on peer judgment and/or attainment of a position of substantial responsibility. Since the 2003, K. Lee Lerner has served on the AMWS Advisory Board.
Recent Advisory Board members include James E. Bobick, Former Department Head, Science and Technology Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh; K. Lee Lerner; and David A. Tyckoson, Associate Dean, Henry Madden Library, California State University, Fresno.
Scientists who are not citizens of the United States or Canada are included if a significant portion of their work was performed in North America.
First published as American Men of Science, in 1971 the name was changed to American Men and Women of Science.
