| 2023 | Dr. Jace Saplan |
| 2022 | Dr. Andre Thomas |
| 2021 | Dr. Julie Yu-Oppenheim (Online Summer Institute) |
| 2020 | (Online Summer Institute) |
| 2019 | Dr. Jonathan Talberg |
| 2018 | Andrea Ramsey |
| 2017 | Hirvo Surva and Paul Caldwell |
| 2016 | Dr. Rollo Dilworth |
| 2015 | Elena Sharkova |
| 2014 | Dr. Angela Broeker |
| 2013 | Dr. Lynne Gackle |
| 2012 | Dr. Rod Eichenberger |
| 2011 | Dr. Hilary Apfelstadt |
| 2010 | Dr. Sandra Snow and Dr. Jonathan Reed |
| 2009 | Dr. Charlene Archibeque and Tom Carter |
| 2008 | Dr. Tim Seelig |
| 2007 | Z. Randall Stroope |
| 2006 | Dr. Sharon Paul |
| 2005 | Dale Warland |
| 2004 | Dr. Edith Copley |
| 2003 | Dr. Anton Armstrong |
| 2002 | Simon Carrington |
| 2001 | Morna Edundson and Diane Loomer |
| 2000 | Dr.Andre Thomas |
| 1999 | Dr. Jo-Michael Scheibe |
| 1998 | Stephen Hatfield, Jim Moore, Connie Branton, and Robert Hawthorne |
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