2024
Hilton Als
Jim Boeheim ’66, G’73
Joan Breier Brodsky ’67, G’68
William “Bill” Brodsky ’65, L’68
Lynn Conway
2023
Cerri Banks ’00, G’04, G’06
Michael Crow G’85
David MacDonald
Kathleen Walters ’73
2022
Nina Federoff
Thomas Magnanti
Howard Phanstiel
Gloria Somolekae
2021
Mary Schmidt Campbell
Peggy Combs
Joseph Strasser
2020
Daniel D’Aniello
Kevin Richardson
2019
Zainab Bangura
Steven Barnes
Mary Daly
Marvin Lender
2018
Bishop Borys Gudziak
Kathrine Switzer
Kenneth Zeichner
2017
Frank Bisignano
Vincent Poor
Thomas Porter
Jordan Vernon Jr.
Carrie Mae Weems
2016
Kevin Bell
Floyd Little
Donald Newhouse
Tobias Wolff
2015
Robert Costas
Charlotte Holstein
Mary Karr
Sonia Nieto
Richard Thompson
2014
Bruce Alberts
David Remnick
Roy Simmons Jr.
2013
Alan Gerry
Judith Kaye
Nicholas Kristof
Wangari Muta Maathai
Charles Payne
2012
Joel Louis Lebowitz
Patricia Anne Moore
Carl Jude Schramm
Aaron Sorkin
2011
John Chapple
Nicholas Donofrio
Jessie Gruman
Ei-ichi Negishi
Craig Venter
Gerardine Wurzburg
2010
Elizabeth Catlett
Gerald B. Cramer
Jamie Dimon
Claire Mintzer Fagin
Ronald Meyer
George Allen Weiss
2009
Joseph Biden Jr.
Molly Corbett Broad
Charles Fahey
Seymour Hersh
Irving Powless Jr.
Gianfranco Zaccai
2008
John Allan Couri
Jacques d’Amboise
Edith Marie Flanigen
Lynn Margulis
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Paul Volcker
Robert Wedgeworth
Martin Whitman
Bob Woodruff
2007
Thomas Gilhool
Austin Roy Kalish
Irma Ginsberg Kalish
Frank McCourt
Martin Pomerantz
Lily Yeh
2006
Dave Bing
Peter David Eisenman
Billy Joel
Carolyn Dineen King
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
2005
Jane Goodall
Ole Fanger
Robert Moses