This is an annual $350 prize awarded annually to the Department’s most outstanding graduate student on the basis of scholarship, service to the department and professional promise.
| 2017 | Emily Judd | |
| 2016 | Kristina Gutchess | |
| 2015 | Pedro Fonseca de Almeida e Val | |
| 2014 | Ryan P. Gordon | |
| 2013 | Margaret A. Zimmer | |
| 2012 | Alex Zirakparvar | |
| 2011 | Martin A. Briggs | |
| 2011 | Jack Hietpas | |
| 2010 | Aaron M. Satkoski | |
| 2009 | Emily Feinberg | |
| 2008 | Heather Wall | |
| 2007 | Patrick Wall | |
| 2006 | Bryan Sell | |
| 2005 | Nicholas Azzolina | |
| 2004 | Christy Visaggi | |
| 2003 | Melanie McFadden | |
| 2003 | Jeffrey McKenzie | |
| 2002 | Melanie McFadden | |
| 2002 | Jeffrey McKenzie | |
| 2001 | Mark A. Flusche | |
| 2000 | Matthew E. Kirby | |
| 1999 | Matthew E. Kirby | |
| 1998 | Karin D'Agostino | |
| 1998 | Jennifer S. Rivers | |
| 1997 | Bryan G. Mark | |
| 1996 | Gregory L. Wortman | |
| 1995 | Catherine Ferguson | |
| 1995 | William Anderson | |
| 1994 | Christopher McRoberts | |
| 1993 | Edwin A. Romanowicz Jr. | |
| 1992 | Robert Wellner | |
| 1991 | Robert S. Darling | |
| 1990 | Brannon C. Andersen | |
| 1989 | Robert S. Darling | |
| 1988 | Steven R. Roof | |
| 1987 | Anne F. Gardulski | |
| 1986 | George R. Dix | |
| 1985 | John C. Ridge | |
| 1984 | John C. Ridge | |
| 1983 | John C. Ridge | |
| 1982 | Robert G. Marvinney | |
| 1981 | David A. Franzi | |
| 1980 | William A. Burroughs | |
| 1979 | William W. Goodmen | |
| 1978 | Christopher S. Plopper | |
| 1977 | David E. Andrews | |
| 1977 | Paul D. Willette | |
| 1976 | Charles E. Bartberger | |
| 1976 | Ennis P. Geraghty | |
| 1975 | T .I. Vehers |