2025 - Team Limelight Rainforest
2024 - Ferran Garcia-Pichel, PhD
2023 - Karen Mossberger, PhD
2022 - Efrem Lim, PhD
2021 - Flavio F. Marsiglia, PhD
2020 - Devoney Looser, PhD
2019 - Natalie Diaz
2015 - Dr. James Elser, Professor of Life Sciences
2014 - Dr. Roy Curtiss III, The Biodesign Institute
2013 - Dr. Stephen Pratt, School of Life Sciences
2012 - Wayne Frasch, Professor of Life Sciences
2011 - Milton Sommerfield, Professor of Life Sciences
2010 - Nancy Grimm, Professor of Life Sciences
2009 - Patricia Gober, Professor of Geographical Sciences
Charles Perrings, Professor of Life Sciences
2007 - Cecilia Menjivar, Associate Professor of Sociology
2006 - Laurie Chassin, Professor of Psychology
2005 - Peter Iverson, Ph.D., Regents' Professor of History
2004 - Karen L. Adams, Professor of English
2003 - Brooks D. Simpson, Professor of History
2002 - Frank Hoppensteadt, Professor of Mathematics
2001 - Robert E. Bjork, Professor of English
2000 - Aditi Chattopadhyay, Professor of Engineering
1999 - David Kaye, Regents' Professor, College of Law
1998 - Philip Christensen, Professor of Geology
1997 - H.J.S. Fernando, Professor of Engineering
1996 - Jean Brink, Professor of English
1995 - Stephen J. Pyne, Professor of American Studies
1994 - David W. Foster, Regents' Professor of Spanish
1993 - George N. Maracas, Professor of Electrical Engineering
1992 - Nancy Felipe Russo, Professor and Director of Women's Studies
1991 - O M Brack, Jr., Professor of English
1990 - Ray W. Carpenter, Professor and Director, Center for Solid State Science