The GCSE Lifetime Achievement Award for Science, Service, and Leadership is given to an individual or group of individuals in recognition of their exceptionally meritorious contribution to science and the environment. The award honors those who have made a significant impact to our community through research, education, diplomacy, and/or innovative technologies. Past recipients include prime ministers, distinguished professors, and renowned scientists.
Previous Recipients
| 2022 |
Rita Mesquita, Ecologist, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia |
| 2021 |
Christiana Figueres, Founding Partner, Global Optimism; Former Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change | Watch Christiana's remarks. |
| 2020 | Michael M. Crow, President, Arizona State University |
| 2019 |
Paul Hawken, Founder and Writer, Project Drawdown |
| 2018 | Edward Mazria, Founder and CEO, Architecture 2030 Robert B. Semple, Jr., Associate Editor of the Editorial Page, The New York Times |
| 2017 | Philip Landrigan, Dean for Global Health, Mount Sinai School of Medicine Thomas E. Lovejoy, University Professor of Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason University |
| 2016 | Rita R. Colwell, Distinguished Professor, University of Maryland and Former Director, NSF Veerabhadran “Ram” Ramanathan, Distinguished Professor, Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
| 2015 | Stephen Hubbell, Distinguished Professor, University of California, Los Angeles Tom Tidwell, Deputy Regional Forester for Fire and Aviation Management, Recreation, Engineering, State and Private Forestry |
| 2014 |
Co-founders, U.S. Global Change Research Program: |
| 2013 | Jane Lubchenco, Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and Administrator, NOAA |
| 2012 | Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Prime Minister of Norway and Director-General, World Health Organization |
| 2011 | Sylvia Earle, Explorer-in-residence, National Geographic; Founder, Mission Blue; Chairman & CEO, Sylvia Earle Alliance |
| 2010 | Herman E. Daly, Vanderbilt University, LSU’s Distinguished Research Master Award Recipient |
| 2009 | George Rabb, President Emeritus, Chicago Zoological Society Peter H. Raven, Director, Missouri Botanical Garden Edward O. Wilson, Pellegrino Research Professor Emeritus, Harvard University |
| 2008 | Robert W. Corell, Global Change Director, The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment |
| 2007 | Theo Colborn, President, The Endocrine Disruption Exchange Herbert Needleman, Professor of Child Psychiatry and Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine |
| 2006 | Russell Train, Chairman Emeritus, World Wildlife Fund; First Chair, Council on Environmental Quality; Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency |
| 2005 | William D. Ruckelshaus, First and Fifth Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency |
| 2004 | Ruth Patrick, Francis Boyer Chair of Limnology, Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia; Adjunct Professor, University of Pennsylvania M. Gordon “Reds” Wolman, B. Howell Griswold Jr. Professor of Geography and International Affairs, The Johns Hopkins University |
| 2003 | Honorable Gaylord Nelson, Former Governor of Wisconsin and U.S. Senator (Ret.); Founder of Earth Day, Counselor of The Wilderness Society |
| 2001 | Maurice F. Strong, Senior Advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General |