1959: John E. Saffell - "An Historian Looks at His World"
1960: William Glenn Clark - "A Layman's Guide to Modern Science"
1961: Jerry Lee Blount - "A Biologist's View of the Future"
1962: Paul H. Chapman - "Don't Forget to Speak Scornfully of the Victorian Age"
1963: R. H. Sales - "The Second Century Chruch: On Doubt, Conflict, and Endurance"
1965: James P. Rodman - "Observational Tests of Applied Cosmologies"
1967: George L. Montagno - "Untouchability in Contemporary India"
1969: William Porter, Jr. - "Window on a Little Known World"
1971: George H. Thomas - "Berkeley's Astonishing Doctrine"
1972: Earl Russell - "Literature and Music"
1973: Truman D. Turnquist - "Heavy Metals: Friend or Foe"
1974: James E. Vincent - "On Actors and Audiences"
1975: Wesley J. Vesey - " Religious Elements in the Testimonies of the Nuremberg Trial Defendants"
1976: Richard L. Doyle - "In Pursuit of a Promise: The Economic Mobility of the Dutch Immigrants of Pella, Iowa, 1847-1880"
1977: William Glenn Clark - "Euclid is Not Alone"
1978: Robert G. Wiese - "Continents, Ocean Basins, and Mountains"
1979: Mary Ellen Nurmi - "Asymmetrically Speaking: The Language of Dominance and Deference"
1980: Paul Shaker - "The College and Consciousness"
1981: Shea Zellweger - "The World Itself is Just Another World"
1982: Frederick Oppermann - "The Teaching Machine: Part 1"
1983: Charles H. Brueske - "After the Seventh Day"
1984: George Tune - "The Death of a Dream"
1985: Helen Saffell - "The State of Our Language"
1986: Lewis A. Phelps - "Symbolism in the Music of J. S. Bach"
1987: Faye Hollaway - "The Polymer Age"
1988: Leonard G. Epp - "Unweaving a Rainbow"
1989: Gloria Malone - "Expanding the Canon: With a Bang or a Whimper"
1990: James Hopper - "The Objectice Image: An Artist's Research"
1991: Richard Duston - "A Bonfire of the Vanities"
1992: Donald Buckey - "The Real of Self-Realization"
1993: John Bienz - "Metaphor Wars"
1994: William Coleman - "Dreaming America: The Rhetoric of Martin Luther King, Jr."
1995: Michael Zwilling - "What About Scarecrow's Brain"
1996: Victoria Harris - "Piano and Organ Music of Franz Liszt"
1997: Kathleen Piker-King - "The Undergraduate Experience"
1998: Charles McClaugherty - "Beauty and the Beast: Fairy Tales About Nature"
1999: Donald Hobson - "The Search for the Historical Jesus and Future Christian Belief"
2000: Douglas Hendel - "Every Inch a King: Playing Shakespeare's King Lear"
2001: Angela Zumbar - "Prayers for the Queen of Swords"
2002: Stephen Kramer - "Getting a Life? Pursing Happiness and Optimal Development"
2003: Dr. Martin Horning - "The Butterfly, the Wheel, and the Buddha" Confessions of a Macro Economist"
2004: James Thoma - "International Sport Diffusion: The New Reality"
2005: James Perone - "When Protest Became Pop: The Strange Case of Eve of Destruction"
2006: Lee Gray - "The Natural History of Mars"
2007: Jamie Capuzza - "Confinement and Discrimination Indian Women Face"
2007: John Recchiuti - "Scholarship and Public Life in Progressive-Era New York City: The Activist Scholar in Historical Perspective"
2008: Lin Wu - "Little Creatures with Big Ecological Roles: A Microscopic View of Aquatic Ecosystems"
2010: Dr. Scott Gravlee - Biomedical Ethics at the Crossroads: New Directions and Connections"
2012: Dr. Patricia Matthews – "Derivatives: Friend or Foe?"
2012: Dr. Tamara Daily - "The Other CSI Effect"
2013: Dr. Michelle Collins-Sibley - "Still Ruined by Reading: Paper, Pixels and Ink in a Digital Age"
2014: Dr. Peter Schneller - "21st Century Future Shock and Education: The Symptoms are with Us Now"
2015: Rudy Roggenkamp - "Do You See What I See?"
2016: Dr. David Thiele - "Liberal Education and the Questions of Integrity"
2017: Betsy Ekey - "The 'Os' of Healthcare in Ohio: Obesity, Opioids, and Oral Health"
2018: Dr. Kevin Meyer - “Humor, Seriously: Exploring the Connections between Humor and Well-being”
2019: Hans Tritico - “Damming the Amazon and the Brazilian Pantanal: A bright new future or a crisis in the making?”
2020: Dr. Robert Woodward - “The (Microscopic) Enemy Among Us: Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria & Humanity’s Response”
2021: Dr. Susan Haddox - “Gender, Violence, and Identity in the Bible and Society”
2023: Dr. Melissa Askren Edgehouse - "Covid and EdTech: How a Pandemic Forever Changed the Way We Teach and Learn"
2024: Margo Miller - "Nature an Impetus Toward Abstraction: Creative Process Timeline"