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Distinguished Alumni Award

Trudy Peterson
Trudy Peterson
2008 Distinguished Alumni Award

The Distinguished Alumni Award, established in 1961, is the highest honor given to alumni by Iowa State University through the ISU Alumni Association. This award honors ISU alumni who are nationally and/or internationally recognized for preeminent contributions to their profession or life's work.

Past LAS Recipients

2008
David Drury, mathematics
Charles Manatt, sociology
Trudy Huskamp Peterson, English, history and speech

2007
David Campbell, psychology
Theodore Kooser, English and speech

2006
Lauro Cavazos, physiology
Luis Ernesto Derbez, economics

2005
Bruce Roth, chemistry
Michael Nettles, political science

2004
Victoria Bernhardt, psychology; statistics
Thomas Harkin, government
Graham Spanier, sociology

2002
John Jiansheng Tang, chemistry
Donna Brogan, statistics

2001
W. Lynn Watney, geology
Don Dillman, sociology

2000
Frederick Rudolph, biochemistry
Santi Kulprathipanja, chemistry
Liang-Yao Chen, physics

1999
William Brinkley, zoology
Katharine Abraham, economics

1998
Ralph Yount, chemistry
John Weaver, physics
Wayne Fuller, economics; statistics

1997
Keith Yamamoto, biochemistry
Martin Wilk, statistics
Roy Whistler, chemistry
James Gaylor, chemistry; mathematics

1996
Edward Sayre,chemistry
Robert Fugate, physics

1994
Charles Knapp, economics

1993
Dwight Ink, political science

1992
Sharon (Miller) Rodine, political science

1991
Barbara Clawson, journalism
Eldean "Dean" Borg, journalism

1990
Garrey Carruthers, economics

1988
Benjamin Bierbaum, zoology

1987
James Reiner,chemistry
Velmer Fassel, chemistry

1986
Darleane (Christian) Hoffman, chemistry

1985
Carlyne Caldwell, chemistry
Clifford Berry, physics

1984
Donald Langenberg, physics
John Vincent Atanasoff, mathematics

1981
Samuel Massie, chemistry

1978
Donald Jackson, journalism

1977
Vine Deloria, science

1976
Alfred Karlson, science

1974
John Leermakers, chemistry
Even Binkerd, chemistry

1972
Hugh Sidey, journalism

1970
Lauren Soth, journalism
J. George Harrar, sociology
Nathaniel Calloway, chemistry