- 2016 Heather Polan
- 2015 Lilian Tran
- 2014 Daiana Duca
- 2013 Shannon E. Van der Velden
- 2012 Jerry White
- 2011 Carolyn Brown
- 2010 Stephanie McMillan
- 2009 Lynn Richardson
- 2008 Marcel Pinheiro
- 2007 Jennifer L. Kormos
- 2006 Lisa J. Nordin
- 2005 Gregory M. Silsbe
- 2004 David C. Depew
- 2003 Alice Banh (Vision Science and Biology)
- 2003 Janis Lynn Zimmer
- 2002 Jeffrey William Semple
- 2001 Steven Bruce Wiseman
- 1998 Yvonne Yanor Steven
- 1998 Sansun Yeh
- 1997 Kenneth E. Wilson
- 1996 Patrick Leslie Nathan Goegan
- 1995 Daniel R. Campbell
- 1994 Blanche Elizabeth McKenzie
- 1993 Yvonne Asta Devantier
- 1992 Marrela Díaz Díaz
- 1991 Trevor Glenn Friesen
- 1990 George Blake Steels
- 1989 Yvona Sykora