| 2025 | Kristin Hoffner, ’06 MS kinesiology |
| 2024 | Gina Woodall, ‘99 BS, ‘01 MA, ‘05 PhD |
| 2023 | Sara Brownell, PhD |
| 2022 | Mark Jacobs, PhD |
| 2021 | Brian DeMaris |
| 2020 | Richard Herrera, PhD |
| 2019 | Ian Gould, PhD Anne Jones, PhD |
| 2018 | Ariel D. Anbar, PhD ASU President’s Professor, School of Earth and Space Exploration and School of Molecular Sciences | Distinguished Sustainability Scientist, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability | Director, ASU Center for Education Through eXploration | Co-director, |
| 2017 | Sharon J. Hall, PhD, Associate Professor, School of Life Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; Senior Sustainability Scientist, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability |
| 2016 | Wendy Hultsman, PhD, Director of Undergraduate Programs and Associate Professor, School of Community Resources and Development, College of Public service and Community Solutions |
| 2015 | Dr. Hallie Eakin, Associate Professor, School of Sustainability Dr. Chad Johnson, Associate Professor, School of Mathematical and Natural Sciences |
| 2014 | Dr. Bertha Alvarez Manninen, New College |
| 2013 | Professor Melissa Pritchard, Department of English |
| 2012 | Karen Bruhn, Honors Faculty Fellow and Lecturer, Barrett, the Honors College |
| 2011 | James Eder, Professor of Anthropology |
| 2010 | Miles Orchinik, Professor of Life Sciences |
| 2007 | Eric Susser, Lecturer, The Barrett Honors College |
| 2006 | Maureen Goggin, Associate Professor of English |
| 2005 | Joseph Cayer, Ph.D., Professor of Public Affairs |
| 2004 | Georganne Scheiner, Professor of Women's Studies |
| 2003 | Jay Boyer, Professor of English |
| 2002 | Kathleen Ferraro, Professor of Women's Studies |
| 2001 | Jane Maienschein, Professor of Philosophy |
| 2000 | Stephen Reynolds, Professor of Geology |
| 1999 | Elsie G.J. Moore, Professor of Education in Psychology |
| 1998 | Kathleen Sands, Professor of English |
| 1997 | Leona Aiken, Professor of Psychology |
| 1996 | Jonathan Rose, Professor of Law |
| 1995 | Mary Logan Rothschild, Director of Women's Studies, Professor of History |
| 1994 | Kristin Bervig Valentine, Professor of Communication |
| 1993 | Keith A. Shriver, Professor of Accounting |
| 1992 | Daniel G. Brooks, Professor of Applied Statistics |
| 1991 | David D. Bedworth, Professor of Engineering |
| 1990 | Michael A. Berch, Professor of Law |
| 1989 | J. Jeffries McWhirter, Professor of Counseling Psychology |
| 1988 | Donald Schaumburg, Professor of Art |
| 1987 | Murray D. Sirkis, Professor of Engineering |
| 1986 | Wilfred A. Ferrell, Professor of English |
| 1985 | Karl H. Dannenfeldt, Professor of History |
| 1984 | Stephen K. Happel, Professor of Economics |
| 1983 | Therald Moeller, Professor of Chemistry |
| 1982 | Mary E. Green, Professor of English |
| 1981 | Theodore Allen, Jr., Professor of Mechanical Engineering |
| 1980 | Kaoru Yamamoto, Professor of Education |
| 1979 | Margaret Gisolo, Professor of Dance |
| 1978 | Gerald Helmstadter, Professor of Education |
| 1977 | J. J. Lamberts, Professor of English |
| 1976 | Charles D. Hoyt, Jr., Professor of Engineering |
| 1975 | Paul G. Hubbard, Professor of History |
| 1974 | Eugene P. Lombardi, Professor of Music |
| 1973 | Charles Wexler, Professor of Mathematics |
| 1972 | R. Thomas Sanderson, Professor of Chemistry |
| 1971 | Nicholas A. Salerno, Professor of English |
| 1970 | Richard W. Effland, Professor of Law |
| 1969 | Collice Portnoff, Professor of English |
| 1968 | Ernest L. Parker, Professor of Humanities |
| 1967 | Duane Manning, Professor of Education |
| 1966 | Charles M. Woolf, Professor of Zoology |
| 1965 | Douglas G. Arner, Professor of Philosophy |
| 1964 | A. R. Burton, Professor of Accounting |