2008-2009 - Warren Smith, Electrical & Electronic Engineering: "A Sacramento State Biomedical Engineer: Developing New Monitors to Help Surgery Patients, Doctors, Nurses, and Children" DETAILS>
2007-2008 - Marcus Marsh, Mathematics and Statistics: "Generalizations of the Brouwer Fixed Point Theorem" ABSTRACT (PDF)>
2006-2007 - David Madden, English: "One Scholar's Odyssey: Research at the CSU" (no details at this point)
2005-2006 - No award was made.
2004-2005
Robert Brady - Art: "Body-Language and Enchantment" ABSTRACT (PDF)>
2003-2004
José J. Granda - Mechanical Engineering: "Modeling and Simulation Technologies for Understanding the International Space Station and Airplanes of the Future" ABSTRACT (PDF)>
2002-2003
Edward F. Gibson - Physics and Astronomy: "The Small, The Mighty, The Exotic: A View into Nuclear Physics" ABSTRACT )PDF)>
2001-2002
Craig A. Kelley - Marketing: "Click, Click, Clack: Lessons Learned from the E-Marketing Experience" ABSTRACT (PDF)>
2000-2001
Thomas Tien-I Liu - Mechanical Engineering: "Information Technology, Concurrent Design, and Continuous Improvement: Techniques for Global Competitiveness" DETAILS>
1999-2000
Nick Trujillo - Communication Studies: "Taking Sports and Sex Seriously" DETAILS>
1998-99
Mark M. Hennelly, Jr. - English: "Framing the Gothic: From Pillar to Post-Structuralism"
1997-98
William Lovitt - Philosophy: "Martin Heidegger on Art and Technology"
1996-97
Arthur H. Williamson - History: "Meet the Beast: The Apocalypse in the Making and Unmaking of the Modern World—From Jesus to Reagan and Applewhite"
1995-96
Anthony M. Platt - Social Work: " ‘The Land That Never Has Been Yet’: U.S. Race Relations at the Crossroads"
1994-95
Paul N. Goldstene - Government: "Science, Technology, and Promises Broken: The Current Politics of Cynicism"
1993-94
Alexandre Kimenyi - Ethnic Studies: "Iconicity of Language"
1992-93
M. Hossein Partovi - Physics: "Of Time, Uncertainty, Chaos and the Sound of Light"
1991-92
William A. Dorman - Journalism: "The Press and Global Conflict: Beyond the Cold War"
1990-91
Irv Faria - Physical Education: "Physiological Determinants of Human Performance"
1989-90
Dennis Schmitz - English: "Poetry as Re-search"
1988-89
Sue (Chung Sul Youn) Kim - Chemistry: "Design and Synthesis of Polymers Through Analysis of Structure—Property Relationship" (Non-Technical Presentation)
1987-88
Donald E. Hall - Physics: "The Shaping of Science By Communication, Technology, and Imagination"
1986-87
Mary E. Giles - Humanities: "The Ecstatic Scholar"
1985-86
John W. Connor - Anthropology: "Changing Trends in Achievement Motivation in Japanese and American Students"
1984-85
Mary Mackey - English: "The Past Recaptured: Time From a Novelist’s Perspective"
1983-84
Miklos Udvardy - Biological Sciences: "Biogeography and Biological Conversation"
1982-83
John van Gigch - Management: "The Meaning of Truth"
1982-83
Fausto Avendano - Foreign Languages: "The American Immigrant Experience: The Case of the Portuguese Immigrant as Seen Through Literature"
1981-82
Stephen L. Harris - Humanities: "The Fires Next Time: Learning to Live With Our Western Volcanoes"
1980-81
Frederick Reardon - Mechanical Engineering: "Some Energy Alternatives for the Eighties and Beyond"
1979-80
William Allen - Art: "Transient Poet"
1978-79
Lester H. Gabriel - Civil Engineering: "Why Not Research?"
1977-78
Robert L. Curry - Economics: "Bloodbath in Southern Africa: Can it be Avoided?"
1976-77
Eugene B. Redmond - English: "Origins of Afro-American Ritual Expression: Or, in Search of the Soular System"
1976-77
Charles L. Hagopian - Mathematics and Statistics: "Basic Ideas and Applications of Topology"
1975-76
Albert Cook - Electrical Engineering: "Biomedical Engineering: The Case for Interdisciplinary Dialogue"
1973-74
Joan Hoff Wilson - History: "Herbert Hoover: Hero of the New Left?"
1972-73
Rebecca P. Parkin - English: "Utopian Vision and Political Expedience: Alexander Pope’s ‘Feathered People’ Versus the Hogs of Westphaly"
1970-71
Ian P. McGreal - Philosophy: "Puritan and Primitive: The Divided American"
1969-70
Kenneth Kerri - Civil Engineering: "Allocation of Water for Water Quality Control"
1968-69
Richard W. Fish - Chemistry: "Description of Research in Organometallic Chemistry"
1967-68
Trevor Davey, Boris Kaufman - Mechanical Engineering: "Design of Prosthetic Heart Valves"
1966-67
Rodney Sime - Chemistry: "The Structure of Education in Germany: A Comparison with California"
1965-66
Gloria Cline - History: "The Hudson’s Bay Company as a Source for North American Research"
1964-65
Irving McKee - English: "The Intellectual Game"
1963-64
John Mizelle - Biological Sciences: "Parasitism, Parasites and Research"
1962-63
Joseph McGowan - History: "History-Myth or Science"
1961-62
Thomas Williams - Anthropology: "Custom and Civilization"
