Past Winners
| Year | College Recipient | Engineering Recipient |
| 2012 | Cathy Popkin | David D. W. Yao |
| 2011 | Mark Mazower | George Deodatis |
| 2010 | Robert Belknap | Kathleen R. McKeown |
| 2009 | Austin E. Quigley | Zvi Galil |
| 2008 | Christia Mercer | Lorenzo M. Polvani |
| 2007 | Jacques Barzun | |
| 2006 | Andrew Delbanco | Shree K. Nayar |
| 2005 | Gareth Williams | Tony Heinz |
| 2004 | Donald C. Hood | Perwez Shahabuddin |
| 2003 | Alan Brinkley | Alfred V. Aho |
| 2002 | David J. Helfand | Gerard a. Ateshian |
| 2001 | Michael Seidel | Dimitris Anastassiou |
| 2000 | Hilary Ballon | Raimondo Betti |
| 1999 | Kenneth Jackson | Donald Goldfarb |
| 1998 | Kathy Eden | Fletcher H. Gtiffis |
| 1997 | David Rosand | Vijay Modi |
| 1996 | George G. Stade | John R. Kender |
| 1995 | Peter J. Awn | Thomas Marshall |
| 1994 | Eric Holtzman | Jonathan L. Gross |
| 1993 | John Rohan | Rene Chevray |
| 1992 | Elaine R. Sisman | Jordan L. Spencer |
| 1991 | Eric Foner | Yannis Tsividis |
| 1990 | Richard Brilliant | Rimas Vaicaitis |
| 1989 | Carol Gluck | Arle Gjelsvik |
| 1988 | James Mirollo | Leon Lidofsky |
| 1987 | Gerald Feinberg | Arthur S. Nowick |
| 1986 | Charles V. Hamilton | Rene B. Testa |
| 1985 | Edward W. Tayler | C.K. Chu |
| 1984 | Eugene F. Rice, Jr. | Amiya K. Sen |
| 1983 | Peter R. Pouncey | Mischa Schwartz |
| 1982 | Sidney Morgenbesser | Herbert H. Kellogg |
| 1981 | Henry F. Graff | Herbert Deresiewicz |
| 1980 | Ronald Breslow | Seymour Melman |
| 1979 | Jack Beeson | Maciej P. Bieniek |
| 1978 | Joseph Rothschild | Morton B. Friedman |
| 1977 | Allan M. Sachs | Charles F. Bonilla |
| 1976 | James B. Shenton | Dudley D. Fuller |
| 1975 | Carl F. Hovde | Herbert Goldstein |
| 1974 | Fritz R. Stern | Robert A. Gross |
| Richard G. Waite | Wesley J. Hennessey | |
| 1973 | Herbert a. Deane | Omar Wing |
| 1972 | Samuel Eilenberg | Lawrence B. Cohen |
| 1971 | Dwight C. Miner | Richard Skalak |
| 1970 | Wm. Theodore deBary | Elmer L. Gaden |
| 1969 | Howard McParlin Davis | Frank L. DiMaggio |
| 1968 | Everand M. Upjohn | Sebastian B. Littauer |
| 1967 | Donald M. Frame | Henry B. Linford |
| 1966 | Frederick W. Dupee | Jacob Millman |
| 1965 | Horace L. Freiss | Ferdinand Freudenstein |
| 1964 | John Herman Randall Jr. | Ralph Jacques Schwarz |
| 1963 | Ernest Nagel | Maxwell Gensamer |
| 1962 | James Gutmann | Lawrence H. O'Neill |
| 1961 | Andrew J. Chiappe | Mario G. Salvadori |
| 1960 | Charles R. Dawson | Frank H. Lee |
| 1959 | Douglas S. Moore | Raymond D. Mindlin |
| 1958 | Polykarp Kusch | Carl Frederic Kayan |
| 1957 | Charles Warren Everett | Melelaos Dimitri Hassialis |
| 1956 | William C. Casey | Donald M. Burmister |
| 1955 | Lionel Trilling | Jewell M. Garrelts |
| 1954 | Moses Hadas | Theodore Baumeister |
| 1953 | Irwin Edman | Walter A. Curry |
| 1952 | Robert L. Catey | George M. Allen |
| 1951 | Dwight C. Miner | William J. Krefeld |
| 1950 | Dean Harry J. Carman | Dean James Kip Finch |
| 1949 | Mark Van Doren | Edwin H. Armstrong |