| Year | Recipient | School | Degree |
| 2012 | Glenn Watkins | Eastman | Ph.D Musicology 1953 |
| 2011 | [not awarded] | ||
| 2010 | Young-Kee Kim | College | Ph.D. Physics 1990 |
| 2009 | Clifford P. Kubiak | College | Ph.D. Chemistry 1980 |
| Barbara Sinclair | College | Ph.D. Political Science 1970 | |
| 2008 | Patrick McCreless | Eastman | Ph.D. Music Theory 1981 |
| Charles R. Munnerlyn | College | Ph.D. Optical Engineering 1969 | |
| 2007 | Ernest Courant | College | Ph.D. Physics 1943 |
| 2006 | Amit Goyal | College | Ph.D. Engineering 1991 |
| Jerry Green | College | Ph.D. Economics 1970 | |
| 2005 | Kenneth French | Simon | Ph.D. Finance 1983 |
| Edward J.J. Grabowski | College | Ph.D. Organic Chemistry 1965 | |
| 2004 | Kevin Campbell | Medicine & Dentistry | Ph.D. Biophysics 1979 |
| Siddhartha Dalal | College | Ph.D. Statistics 1976 | |
| 2003 | Jack E. Crow | College | Ph.D. Physics 1967 |
| 2002 | Bruce R. Smith | College | Ph.D. English 1973 |
| Lillian M. Nail | Nursing | Ph.D. Nursing 1985 | |
| 2001 | Karen Brown | College | Ph.D. Chemistry 1972 |
| 2000 | Masatoshi Koshiba | College | Ph.D. Physics 1955 |
| 1999 | Morris Fiorina | College | Ph.D. Political Science 1972 |
| Lewis Rowell | Eastman | Ph.D. Music Theory 1958 | |
| 1998 | Katherine Hayles | College | Ph.D. English 1977 |
| 1997 | Charles Swenberg | College | Ph.D. Physics 1967 |
| Jacquelyn Campbell | Nursing | Ph.D. Nursing 1986 | |
| 1996 | Richard McKelvey | College | Ph.D. Political Science 1971 |
| George T. Walker | Eastman | DMA Music Education 1956, DMA Composition 1957 | |
| 1995 | Joseph Bunnett | College | Ph.D. Chemistry 1945 |
| Lowell "Ed" Folsom | College | Ph.D. English 1976 | |
| Robert Potter | College | Ph.D. Optics 1960 | |
| 1994 | Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham | College | Ph.D. History 1984 |
| Lawrence Alan Babb | College | Ph.D. Anthropology 1969 | |
| 1993 | Kenneth Shepsle | College | Ph.D. Political Science 1970 |
| D. Allan Bromley | College | Ph.D. Physics 1952 |