President’s Award

The President’s Award recognizes pioneering and visionary achievements in research, public impact, and/or creative endeavors that advance University goals. 

President's Award Winners (1971 to present)

2024

• Raymond Offenheiser – Senior Advisor to the Dean, Keough School of Global Affairs, and Director, McKenna Center for Human Development and Global Business

2023

• Stephen M. Fallon – John J. Cavanaugh Professor of the Humanities, Program of Liberal Studies and Department of English

2022

• Donald C. Bishop – Associate Vice President for Undergraduate Enrollment

2021

• Dianne Pinderhughes – Professor of Africana Studies and Political Science, Department Chair of Africana Studies

2020

• Kenneth N. Garcia – Associate Director, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts
• Sharon K. Schierling – Managing Director, Kellogg Institute for International Studies

2019

• James J. McKenna – Professor Emeritus of Anthropology

2018

• Charles R. Loving – Director of the Snite Museum of Art

2017

• Joseph A. Buttigieg – William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English; Director, The Hesburgh-Yusko Scholars Program

2016

• Stuart Greene – Associate Professor of English and Africana Studies

2015

• Robert P. Sedlack – Professor of Art, Art History, and Design

2014

• Richard A. Jensen – Gilbert F. Schaefer Professor of Economics

2013

• Fr. John S. Dunne – John A. O’Brien Professor of Theology

2012

• Harriet E. Baldwin – Associate Professional Specialist, College of Arts and Letters; Director, Academic Conferences

2011

• James J. Lyphout – Vice President for Business Operations

2010

• Patricia A. O’Hara – Professor, Law School (former Dean)

2009

• James L. Merz – The Frank M. Freimann Professor of Electrical Engineering

2008

• Carol C. Kaesebier – General Counsel

2007

• Leo Burke
• Don Crafton
• Barbara Turpin

2006

• Philip Bess
• Olivia Remie Constable
• Fernand “Tex” Dutile
• Agustine Fuentes
• John Uhran

2005

• Seth Brown
• Charles Crowell
• James Davis
• Alex Hahn
• John Haynes
• Patricia Maurice
• Maria Tomasula

2004

• Robert Bretz
• Sister Patricia Clark, S.V.M.
• Howard Hanson
• Robert Nelson
• Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe
• John Robinson
• Phillip Sloan
• Michael Wiescher
• Christina Wolbrecht

2003

• Ani Aprahamian
• Christopher B. Fox
• Yih-Fang Huang
• Ava Preacher
• Susan Guise Sheridan
• Scott J. VanJacob

2002

• Ann E. Tenbrunsel
• Albert-László Barabási
• Lawrence S. Cunningham
• Mark J. McCready
• Francis X. Connolly

2001

• Thomas Mueller
• Karen Morris
• Rev. Hugh R. Page, Jr.
• Patrick Murphy
• Scott Mainwaring
• Julia Douthwaite
• John Cavadini

2000

• John Affleck-Graves
• Jane Devine
• Roger Jacobs
• Julia Knight
• A. James McAdams
• Randal Ruchti
• Barbara Walvoord

1999

• Jeanne Day
• Dennis Jacobs
• Edward Luther
• Marvin Miller
• Kathie Newman
• Bill Nichols
• Harold Pace
• Michael Sain
• Don Sniegowski
• Greg Sterling
• Joy Vann-Hamilton

1998

• Joan Brennecke
• Daniel J. Costello
• Jerry Jones
• Bob Kirby
• Claudia Kselman
• Dian Murray
• Jack Pratt
• Valerie Sayers

1997

• Edward J. Conlon
• Mary Jo Griffin, O.S.F.
• Jimmy Gurulé
• Maureen T. Hallinan
• Daniel R. Jenky, C.S.C.
• Thomas King, C.S.C.
• Donald P. McNeill, C.S.C.
• Andrew Sommese
• Jennifer Warlick

1996

• Joseph Bauer
• Sonia Gernes
• Diana Matthias
• Kathie Newman
• Roger & Ruth Schmitz
• John Van Engen
• Robert Williamson

1995

• Kathleen Cannon, O.P.
• Dolores Frese
• E. Doran & B. Gasperetti
• Eugene Gorski, C.S.C.
• Alan Howard
• James Kohn
• Luther Snavely
• William Wilkie

1994

• William Berry
• Paul Vittoria Bosco
• Michael Etzel
• Ron & Barbara Hellenthal
• Edward Kline
• Edward Murphy
• Erskine Peters

1993

• Peri Arnold
• Jay Dolan
• Andre Leville
• Naomi Meara
• Carol Mooney
• K.T. Yang

1992

• JoAnn DellaNeva
• Peter P. Grande
• Barth Pollak
• Edward Trubac
• Arvind Varma

1991

• Thomas Bergin
• Paul Conway
• Elaine DesRosiers, O.P.
• John J. Gilligan
• Eileen T. Kolman
• Robert S. Pelton, C.S.C.
• Jean Fadden O’Meara

1990

• Isabel Charles
• Richard Foley
• Jack Furdyna
• Matthew Miceli, C.S.C.
• David T. Tyson, C.S.C.

1989

• Ernest Bartell, C.S.C.
• James L. Cullather
• Ann M. Firth
• Chau T. M. Le
• Robert H. Shuler
• F. Ellen Weaver

1988

• Julius T. Banchero
• Joseph H. Carey, C.S.C.
• Angie Ricks Chamblee
• Kevin Rooney
• John Roos

1987

• Richard W. Conklin
• George B. Craig, Jr.
• Philip & Maureen Gleason
• Michael McCafferty, C.S.C.
• Francesco Montana

1986

• Peter P. Grande
• Michael J. Murphy, C.S.C.
• Robert F. O’Brien
• Thomas & Wendy Schlereth

1985

• Leonard N. Banas, C.S.C.
• Sr. Jean Lenz, O.S.F.
• Kenneth Ripple
• Julian Samora
• Robert J. Waddick

1984

• Cornelius Delaney
• Lee A. & Sparky Tavis
• John A. Van Wolvlear, C.S.C.

1983

• Judith Anne Beattie, C.S.C.
• Don McNeill, C.S.C.
• Elizabeth Christman
• Robert Edward Gordon
• Joseph L. Walter, C.S.C.

1982

• Ferdinand L. Brown, C.S.C.
• Fernand “Tex” Dutile
• Gregory A. Green, C.S.C.
• M. Katherine Tillman

1981

• G. Thomas Bull
• John E. Derwent
• Joseph C. Hogan
• Brother Conan Moran, C.S.C.
• James E. Murphy, C.S.C.
• Dean Porter

1980

• Frederick H. Baumer, Jr.
• John T. Goldrick
• Dominick “Nappy” Napolitano
• Sr. Kathleen Rossman, O.S.F.

1979

• James V. Gibbons
• Sr. John Mirian Jones, S.C.
• Brother Kieran Ryan, C.S.C.
• Bernard L. Waldman

1978

• Ferdinand L. Brown, C.S.C.
• J. Franklin Brown
• Brother Borromeo Malley, C.S.C.

1977

• Otto Bird
• Emil T. Hofman
• John R. Malone

1976

• Thomas F. Broden
• Eileen Conley
• Dorothy Laughlin
• James L. Massey

1975

• Frederick J. Crosson
• Yusaku Furuhashi
• Stephen D. Kertesz
• Thomas L. Shaffer

1974

• Matthew A. Fitzsimons
• Marie K. Lawrence
• Thomas T. Murphy

1973

• Astrik L. Gabriel
• Gerald L. Jones
• Walter Langford

1972

• Leopoldo M. Corbaci
• Francis M. Kobayashi
• Marshall Smelser

1971

• Paul E. Beichner, C.S.C.
• Michael Burton
• Frederick D. Rossini
• Raymond J. Schumehl