| 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 |
| 2018 | Nancy Gonzales, PhD, ASU Foundation Professor and Associate Dean of Faculty, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
| 2017 | Joshua LaBaer, Executive director, Biodesign Institute at ASU; director, Biodesign Virginia G. Piper Center for Personalized Diagnostics; Virginia G. Piper Chair of Personalized Medicine; professor, School of Molecular Sciences; adjunct professor of medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine |
| 2016 | Charles Arntzen, Regents' Professor, Biodesign Institute Center for Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology; Florence Ely Nelson Presidential Chair, School of Life Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
| 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 |
| 1989 | Stephen W. Brown, Professor of Marketing |
| 1988 | John W. McKlveen, Professor of Engineering |
| 1987 | Darryl E. Metzger, Professor of Engineering |
| 1986 | Susan Wyckoff, Professor of Physics |
| 1985 | Ella Mae Branstetter, Professor of Nursing |
| 1984 | Richard W. Effland, Professor of Law |
| 1983 | Warren Rice, Professor of Engineering |
| 1982 | Bonnie J. F. Meyer, Professor of Education |
| 1981 | Willard H. Pedrick, Professor of Law |
| 1980 | Kenneth L. Donelson, Professor of English |
| 1979 | Marcus Whiffen, Professor of Architecture |
| 1978 | Martin T. Farris, Professor of Transportation |
| 1977 | John M. Cowley, Galvin Professor of Physics |
| 1976 | Charles E. Backus, Professor of Engineering |
| 1975 | Robert D. Strom, Professor of Education |
| 1974 | Edward W. Cleary, Professor of Law |
| 1973 | Harold E. Fearon, Professor of Management |
| 1972 | George C. Beakley, Jr., Professor of Engineering Sciences |
| 1971 | Calvin C. Straub, Professor of Architecture |
| 1970 | Carleton B. Moore, Professor of Chemistry & Geology |
| 1969 | Leroy Eyring, Professor of Chemistry |
| 1968 | Louis M. Myers, Professor of English |
| 1967 | A. Alan B. Pritsker, Professor of Industrial Engineering |
| 1966 | Willard Abraham, Professor of Education |
| 1965 | Peter K. Stein, Professor of Mechanical Engineering |
| 1964 | Keith Davis, Professor of Management |