Cole was awarded grants and fellowships by the Rockefeller Foundation, the Andrew Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He received the alumni merit award from the University of Pennsylvania, School of Dental Medicine, in 2008. He was a fellow of the Phi Beta Kappa Society and a board member of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Formerly a board member of Columbia University‘s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) Alumni Association, he was featured in the GSAS publication, Superscript.
Some of His Most Popular Books
While Dr Cole was engaged in numerous academic literary works throughout the course of his illustrious career, there are some of his books that stood out and continue to be held in high regard as professionals in the various fields involved hail his works as being of high importance to both the medical world as well as the security fields. Below are some of his most popular books that helped shape his career as an author while providing an ideal platform for his ideas to be shared with the professional world;
- Clouds of Secrecy: The Army’s Germ Warfare Tests Over Populated Areas
- The Anthrax Letters: A Medical Detective Story
- The Eleventh Plague: The Politics of Biological and Chemical Warfare
- Element of Risk: The Politics of Radon
- Terror: How Israel Has Coped and What America Can Learn
While Dr Leonard A. Cole felt it necessary to thoroughly look into the experiments that were being conducted by the military on unsuspecting citizens, some critics of his work pointed out that the author did not adequately gather all the facts and, as such, blew out of proportion his concern regarding the potential risks posed by the chemicals used in the experiment. The critics presented the argument that the chemicals used, such as cadmium during tests in multiple cities like St. Louis, Winnipeg and Minneapolis, were used at such insignificant levels that the level of risk was at a bare minimum, if not entirely non-existent.
Dr Cole, however, received support from professionals such as the British Doctor and Editor Hugh L’Etang, who strongly noted that Dr Cole had done a tremendous investigative job that not only depicted what could be compared to a fictional horror story but as well exposed the callous nature in which a few individuals engaged in experiments that highly endangered the lives and futures of the resident of the United States.
Dr Leonard A. Cole was known among his peers to be a pioneer in the various ground-breaking projects he was involved in. He dedicated his life to both his family and his work almost in equal measure as he managed to juggle between being a husband, father, and grandfather while working on multiple projects at different points in his career.