The 2008 recipients and their projects are:

• Elizabeth A. Bollwerk, University of Virginia Anthropology. Placing People With Pipes Middle Atlantic Region, U.S.
• Cally Brandt, University of Maryland-Baltimore County. The Iklaina Archaeological Project Greece.
• Rebecca J. Fox, University of Maryland Horn Point Laboratory. Concentration gradients and fluxes of N20 and CH4 in the vadose and saturated zone of hydric areas of Maryland.
• Catherine Haradon, The George Washington University. Environmental context of Acheulean to Middle Stone Age transition at Cave of Hearths, South Africa.
• Jessica L. Hite, Virgina Commonwealth University. Is Aquatic Productivity affected by a Terrestrial Predator? A study of Across Ecosystem Effects Panama.
• Sarah Tafler Koplik, The Johns Hopkins University. The Johns Hopkins/University of Amsterdam Joint Expedition to Tell Umm el-Marra, Syria.
• Margaret Stanton, Georgetown University. Social networks, early experience and survivorship in bottlenose dolphins Australia.
• Sara Zeigler, University of Maryland College Park. Maintaining Monkey Movement: The Significance of Functional Connectivity Loss on the Extinction Risk of a Territorial, Social Primate Brazil.

The 2007 recipients and their projects are:

•  Lelana Avila, University of Virginia Biology. Red Pigmentation in Thamnophis, California, Oregon and Washington.
•  Anna B. Estes, University of Virginia Environmental Sciences. Elephant population dynamics and habitat change in the Serengeti ecosystem, Tanzania.
•  Tyler J. Faith, George Washington University. The Bones of Shompole Conservation Area, Kenya: The Application of Taphonomic Bone Survey as an Ecological Monitoring Technique Kenya.
• Richard S. Maxwell, West Virginia University. Multi-century Tree-ring Reconstruction of Potomac River Stream flow for Water Resource Planning in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area.
• Matthew  Pawlowicz, University of Virginia Anthropology. Making Their Place in the Swahili world: An Archaeological Survey of the Mikindani Area Tanzania.
• Peter C. Quantock, University of Maryland Baltimore campus. Spain Archeology: Roman Theater of Clunia Spain.
• Joshua Smith, Virginia Institute of Marine Science. College of William and Mary. Ecology of two closely related stingrays in the coastal lagoon of Virginia.
• Jae-Cheon Sohn, University of Maryland. Biodiversity Inventory of Yponmeutoidea moths in Costa Rica.

The 2006 recipients and their projects are:

• Geoffrey Cook. George Mason University. A comparison of bacterial communities from geographically separated white plague type II diseased corals (Bahamas and British West Indies).
• Benjamin Hutchens. American University. Determination of genetic divergence among population of the Madison Cave isopod (Antrolana lira) (Virginia).
• Steven Killen. University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Summer archaeology program at tel Beth Shemesh (Israel).
• Silvana Marten-Rodriquez. University of Maryland. Pollen limitation and reproductive assurance in Caribbean Gesneriaceae: are specialist species more vulnerable to reproductive failure than their generalist congeners? (Dominican Republic).
• Virginia Seamster. University of Virginia. Applying stable isotope techniques to a study of the ecology of the cheetah, a rare carnivore (Botswana).
• Lydia Wilson. University of Virginia. A preliminary survey of 19th century fugitive slave sites in Kenya (Kenya).

The 2005 recipients and their projects are:

• Beatrix Arendt, University of Virginia, Anthropology. In the Footsteps of the Inuit: Archaeology at Labrador, Canada (Canada)
• Meredith Ferdie, University of Virginia, Environmental Sciences. Response of tropical seagrass communities to disturbance in east Africa (Mozambique).
• Amanda Hildt, University of Virginia, Environmental Sciences. Growth and distribution modeling of lowland rainforest trees species in eastern Madagascar (Madagascar).
• Abigail Holeman, University of Virginia, Anthropology. Origins and ancestors at Paquime: Exploring Social organization through the built environment in northern Mexico (Arizona).
• Brian Olsen, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. The selective pressure on two sub-species of swamp sparrow in different marsh landscapes. (Delaware and Maryland).
• Claire Ryan. University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Silchester Insula IX: Roman town life project. (England).
• Elizabeth Waraksa. Johns Hopkins University. Female figurines from the Mut Temple: Comparanda in three British Collections (England).