2019 - Tony Ventimiglia, Auburn University
2018 - Georgette Sakumoto, University of Hawaii
2017 - Barbara Gray, East Carolina University
2016 - Robert Andresen, University of Wisconsin Madison
2015 - Michelle Vazin, Vanderbilt University
2014 - Vivian Holmes, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
2013 - Patricia Hawk, Oregon State University
2012 - Dan Nordquist, Washington State University
2011 - Judy Fredenberg, University of Montana
2010 - David Richardson, Pennsylvania State University

2009 - Denise Clark, University of Maryland, College Park
2008 - David Mayo, California Institute of Technology
2007 - Pamela Whitlock, University of North Carolina at Wilmington
2006 - Laura Wade, University of Houston
2005 - Jerry Fife, Vanderbilt University
2004 - Patrick W. Fitzgerald, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2003 - Robert J. Killoren, Jr., Pennsylvania State University
2002 - F. John Case, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2001 - Regina H. White, University of Vermont
2000 - Nancy Wilkinson, Emory University

1999 - Cheryl Lee Howard, The Johns Hopkins University
1998 - Mary Husemoller, University of Nevada, Reno
1997 - Steve Hansen, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
1996 - Kim Moreland, University of Kansas
1995 - Richard P. Seligman, University of California, Los Angeles
1994 - Steven H. Smartt, Vanderbilt University
1993 - Henry O. Hooper, Northern Arizona University
1992 - Ardis M. Savory, University of South Carolina
1991 - Stephen Erickson, Harvard University
1990 - C. Frederick Bentley II, Stanford University

1989 - Jane A. Youngers, University of Rochester
1988 - Julie T. Norris, University of Houston
1987 - Allen J. Sinisgalli, Princeton University
1986 - Mary Ellen Sheridan, SUNY at Binghamton
1985 - Earl J. Freise, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
1984 - Edward L. MacCordy, Washington University
1983 - Mark Elder, University of Oklahoma
1982 - Anthony Merritt, University of Pennsylvania
1981 - Frederick Sudermann, Wichita State University
1980 - Dennis W. Barnes, University of Virginia

1979 - Truman F. Cook, Southern Methodist University
1978 - Margery E. Hoppin, University of Iowa
1977 - Harold B. Hunnicutt, Arizona State University
1976 - Eric R. Rude, University of Wisconsin
1975 - Perry B. Hendricks, Jr., Pacific Lutheran University
1974 - Clark A. McCartney, University of Southern California
1973 - John F. Adams, Georgia State University
1972 - David Bacon, Stanford University
1971 - George R. Holcomb, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1970 - Sidney Roth, New York University

1969 - Raymond Woodrow, Princeton University
1968 - Donald Murray, University of Pennsylvania
1967 - William Wheadon, Syracuse University