- 2016 Lauren MacDonald
- 2015 Nguyen Tran Khoi Vo
- 2014 Lital Sever
- 2013 Shiu Cheung (Terry) Lung
- 2012 Jennifer Ings
- 2011 Zhenyu Cheng
- 2010 Andrew C. Doxey
- 2009 Peter Njuru
- 2008 Sairah Malkin
- 2007 Stephanie DeWitt-Orr
- 2006 Scott Neil Higgins
- 2005 Aluru Neelakanteswar
- 2004 Adrienne Jennifer Bartlett
- 2003 Vladimir Bantseev (Vision Science and Biology)
- 2003 Wenbo Ma
- 2002 Ewa Madey
- 2002 Linda M. Campbell
- 2001 Jian-Shen Zhao
- 2000 Brendan James McConkey
- 1999 Sharon Tsau-Yuen Wong (Vision Science and Biology)
- 1999 Jennifer Gabriele Winter
- 1998 Kristin Schirmer
- 1997 Paul Gregory Welsh
- 1996 Janine H. Clemons
- 1995 John Klironomos
- 1994 Judith Ann West (Vision Science and Biology)
- 1994 Paul Kevin Sibley
- 1993 Robert Scott McKinley
- 1992 Wichien Yongmanitchai
- 1991 Patrick H. Krone
- 1990 Seifu Seyoum
- 1989 Sibdas Ghosh
- 1988 Richard David Mosser
- 1987 Richard A. Cunjak
- 1986 Robert Landis Hare
- 1985 Suha Jabaji-Hare
- 1984 Mark Anthony Walker
- 1983 Paul Brian Hamilton