2009

• Rebecca J. Scott
  Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Law
  April 21, 2009

2008

• Robert Laughlin
  Author and Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist
  November 14, 2008

• Charles M. Vest
  President, National Academy of Engineering
  President Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  March 31, 2008

2007

• Douglas Massey
  Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs Faculty Chair, PhD Program, Wilson School of Public & International Affairs, Princeton University October 19, 2007

• Krisana Kraisintu Rangsit University, Thailand Harbin Institute of Technology, China April 30, 2007

2006

• Bruce Chesebro, Rocky Mountain Laboratories

• Erich Gruen, University of California, Berkeley

• Farshid Guilak, Duke University Medical Center

• Yve-Alain Bois, Institute for Advanced Study

• Lynn Hasher, University of Toronto

• Robert Sampson, Harvard University

• James Hartle, University of California, Santa Barbara

• Shankar Sastry University of California, Berkeley

• Paul Stekler, University of Texas at Austin

2005

• Joseph Connell, University of California at Santa Barbara

• Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago

• Wole Soyinka, University of Nevada, and Harvard University

• Michael Summers, University of Maryland

• Eric Sundquist, University of California, Los Angeles

• Mostafa El-Sayed, Georgia Institute of Technology

• Michael Turner, NSF and University of Chicago

• Salikoko Mufwene, University of Chicago

• Chad Mirkin, Northwestern University

• John Marburger, III, Office of Science and Technology Policy

• David Healy, Wales School of Medicine, Cardiff University

• Charles Elachi, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

• A.R. Ravishankara, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

• Wojtek Chodzko-Zajko, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2004

• Jonathan Losos, Washington University

• Pauline Boss, University of Minnesota

• Ben Cameron, Theatre Communications Group

• Robert Guza, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, University of California - San Diego

• Ira Harkavy, University of Pennsylvania

• Wim Hol, University of Washington

• Gary Horowitz, University of California - Santa Barbara

• William C. Jordan, Princeton University

• Brian Lamb, C-SPAN

• Thomas Magnell, Drew University and Harvard University

• Kenneth Nealson, University of Southern California

• Garth L. Nicolson, Institute of Molecular Medicine

• Amos Nur, Stanford University

• Raj Reddy, Carnegie Mellon University

• Bernard Sadoulet, University of California - Berkeley

• Ralph C. Wood, Baylor University

2003

• G. Wayne Clough, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution

• Debora Shuger, University of California - Los Angeles

• Elliot Jacobson, University of Florida

• Richard Lapchick, University of Central Florida

• Michael Goodchild, Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara

• Stephen Hubbell, University of Georgia

• Edward Houde, University of Maryland

• Hanif Sherali, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

• Michael Mares, Oklahoma Museum of National History and University of Oklahoma

• Robert Scholes, Brown University

• Diana Sorensen, Harvard University

• Dorothy Allison, National best-selling author

2002

• Gerald Early, Washington University

• Joel Moses, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Anne Bogart, Columbia University

• Paul Finkelman, University of Tulsa College of Law

• Alvin Plantinga, University of Notre Dame

• C.N.R. Rao, University of California, Santa Barbara

• Philip Uri Treisman, University of Texas at Austin

• Elizabeth Ferris, World Council of Churches

• Samuel G. Armistead, University of California, Davis

• Dinah Birch, Trinity College and CUF Lecturer at the University of Oxford

• Edouard Glissant, City University of New York Graduate Center

• Walt Wolfram, North Carolina State University

• Ellen R. M. Druffel, University of California-Irvine and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography

• Andrew Knoll, Harvard University

• Lila Gleitman, University of Pennsylvania

• Jim Gray, Microsoft's Bay Area Research Center

• Lonnie Thompson, Ohio State University

• Phyllis Moen, Cornell University

• Nina Baym, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• William R. Rice, University of California - Santa Barbara

• Ted Belytschko, Northwestern University

• Lewis Binford, Southern Methodist University

• Roald Hoffmann, Ph.D., Cornell University

• Freeman Hrabowski, Ph.D., University of Maryland-Baltimore County

• Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop, Brown University (Keith); Editors, Burning Deck Press (both)

• Wolfgang Ehrfeld, Ph.D., Ehrfeld Mikrotechnik and Johannes Gutenberg University

• Sara McLanahan, Ph.D., Princeton University

• James Childress Ph.D., University of Virginia

2001

• Roy Curtiss, III, Washington University

• Johann Deisenhofer, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

• J. P. Dubey, US Department of Agriculture's Parasite Biology and Epidemiology Laboratory

• Richard Fayrer-Hosken,University of Georgia

• Richard A. Gibbs, Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Center

• Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, Rutgers University

• John E. Hopcroft, Cornell University

• Shanto Iyengar, Stanford University

• Edward Muir, Northwestern University

• Robert D. Putnam, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

• G. Carlton Ray, University of Virginia

• Stuart A. Rice, University of Chicago

• John Sallis, Pennsylvania State University

• David George Trickett, President of The Jefferson Circle

• B.L. Turner, II, Clark University

2000

• Lynda M. Applegate, Harvard Business School

• James Beck, Columbia University

• Edwin H. Cassem, Harvard Medical School

• Herman E. Daly, University of Maryland

• Stephen H. Davis, Northwestern University

• Anthony G. Evans, UC Santa Barbara

• Linda K. George, Duke University

• Daniel S. Goldin, Administrator, NASA

• Ursula W. Goodenough, Washington University

• Harry B. Gray, Beckman Institute at California Institute of Technology

• Roderick P. Hart, University of Texas at Austin

• David W. Hillis, University of Texas

• Karla F.C. Holloway, Duke University

• Ole R. Holsti, Duke University

• Evelyn Fox Keller, MIT

• Susan W. Kieffer, CEO, Kieffer and Woo, Inc.

• Robert P. Kirshner, Harvard University

• Lynn Margulis, University of Massachusetts

• Tim Mosmann, University of Rochester

• Alan Nadel, University of Kentucky

• Katherine Newman, Stanford University

• Marjorie G. Perloff, Stanford University

• John Shelton Reed, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Charles P. Segal, Harvard University

• Norman H. Sleep, Stanford University

• Werner Sollors, Harvard University

• Joseph Turow, University of Pennsylvania

• Walter C. Willett, Harvard School of Public Health

1999

• Bruce Ames, UC Berkeley

• Neta A. Bahcall, Princeton University

• Allen J. Bard, University of Texas at Austin

• Robert A. Berner, Yale University

• R. Stephen Berry, University of Chicago

• Leo Bersani, University of California, Berkeley

• Julian Brazier, Member of British Parliament

• Daniel G. Colley, National Center for Infectious Disease, Center for Disease Control

• William Cronon, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Salah E. Elmaghraby, North Carolina State University

• Debate between: Patrick J. Michaels, University of Virginia, and Gerald North, Texas A&M University

• James J. Morgan, California Institute of Technology

• Tina Packer, Artistic Director, Shakespeare & Company

• Stephen R. Palumbi, Stanford University

• Alejandro Portes, Princeton University

• Michael Paul Rogin, University of California, Berkeley

• Priscilla A. Schaffer, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

• Robert Schrieffer, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

• Chang-Lin Tien, University of California, Berkeley

• Matthew Tirrell, University of California, Santa Barbara

• William Julius Wilson, Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government

• George M. Woodwell, Director of Woods Hole Research Center