University Medal Winners
| 2013 | Ritankar Das | Bioengineering & Chemical Biology |
| 2012 | Eric Olliff | Chinese Language and Literature & Conservation and Resource Studies |
| 2011 | Aaron Benavidez | Sociology & Rhetoric |
| 2010 | Joshua Spencer Biddle | Integrative Biology |
| 2009 | Emma Shaw Crane | Interdisciplinary Studies |
| 2008 | Leslie Chung-Lei Sheu | Molecular and Cell Biology |
| 2007 | Adrian Down | Physics & Pure Mathematics |
| 2006 | Lane M. Rettig | Computer Science & Japanese |
| 2005 | Alejandra Dubcovsky | History |
| 2004 | Margaret Ann-Chia Chow | Economics & Molecular and Cell Biology |
| 2003 | Ankur Luthra | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and Business |
| 2002 | Shayna Parekh | Political Science & Interdisciplinary Studies |
| 2001 | Christine Ng | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| 2000 | Fadia Rafeedie | History |
| 1999 | Vikram Ramnath Rao | Molecular and Cell Biology |
| 1998 | Moshiur Mekhail Anwar | Physics |
| 1997 | Carl Ryanen-Grant | History |
| 1996 | Dana Russell Wagner | Economics & Comparative Literature |
| 1995 | Emily Ruth Bender | Linguistics |
| 1994 | Michael Alan Brodsky | English |
| 1993 | Saumya Snehal Sutaria | Molecular and Cell Biology & Economics |
| 1992 | Adam Joaquim Leite | Philosophy |
| 1991 | Kara Maria Kockelman | Civil Engineering |
| 1990 | Alfred Chung Kuo | Biochemistry |
| 1989 | Julian Cummings | Physics |
| 1988 | Seana Lee Shiffrin | Philosophy |
| 1987 | Sarah Lee Caldwell | Anthropology |
| 1986 | Laura Gibbs | Classics & Slavic Languages |
| 1985 | Frandics Pak Chan | Electical Engineering & Computer Science |
| 1984 | David Kin Cheung | Nutritional Sciences |
| 1983 | Leslie Angnes Brueckner | Political Enconomy of Industrial Societies |
| 1982 | Sheila Li Tien Ling | Biophysics & Medical Physics |
| 1981 | Joshua LaBaer | Nutritional Sciences |
| 1980 | Joseph Peter Montoya | Marine Biology |
1979 |
Linda Spangler | Conservation & Natural Resources |
| 1978 | Farid Askary | Engineering Physics |
| 1977 | Peter Dunne Skewes-Cox | Physics & Applied Math |
| 1976 | Paul Terry Friedman Penelope Preovolos |
Political
Science; Individual: California Environment English |
| 1975 | Eric Ellingson Freedman | Anthropology |
| 1974 | Grace Wong Ju | Bacteriology & Immunology |
| 1973 | Kenneth Stumpf | Forestry |
| 1972 | Jack Jue, Jr. | Physiology |
| 1971 | Peter Black Siegel | Engineering Physics |
| 1970 | Andrew Meade Miller | Greek & Anthropology |
| 1969 | William R. Henderson, Jr. Bahram Mashoon |
Zoology Physics |
| 1968 | Ronald Wai-Chun Yeung | Mechanical Engineering |
| 1967 | Robert Edward Bowen | Mathematics |
| 1966 | Bruce Allen Wooley | Electrical Engineering |
| 1965 | Pat LaMar Gordon |
Electrical Engineering Speech |
| 1964 | Thomas John Sargent | Economics |
| 1963 | Glenn Alan Secor | Engineering Science |
| 1962 | Thomas Arthur McCready | Mathematics |
| 1961 | Bandel Bezzerides | Physics |
| 1960 | William Albert Dillon, Jr. | Political Science |
| 1959 | (Mr.) Lynn Seaman | Civil Engineering |
| 1958 | Daniel Warren Hone | Physics |
| 1957 | Henry Lurie | Mechanical Engineering |
| 1956 | Brien Edgar O'Neil | Philosophy & Political Science |
| 1955 | Ronald Webster Brosemer | College of Chemistry |
| 1954 | Patricia Elaine Pothier | College of Letters & Science |
| 1953 | Edward Anthony Grens, II | College of Chemistry |
| 1952 | L. Edward Scriven, II | College of Chemistry |
| 1951 | John Arnold Baldwin, Jr. | College of Letters & Science |
| 1950 | Kenneth Leslie Babcock | College of Agriculture |
| 1949 | Donald Wayne Jones | College of Engineering |
| 1948 | Nancy Jean Eaton | College of Letters & Science |
| 1947 | Raylene Elizabeth Adams | College of Chemistry |
| 1946 | Howard Gilbert Parker | College of Letters & Science |
| 1945 | Mary Frances Gardner | College of Letters & Science |
| 1944 | Paul Joseph Sanazaro | College of Letters & Science |
| 1943 | Edward Louis King | College of Chemistry |
| 1942 | Harvey Akio Itano | College of Chemistry |
| 1941 | Dale Kenneth Barnes | College of Chemistry |
| 1940 | John Hexem | College of Engineering |
| 1939 | Donald Thomas Campbell | College of Letters & Science |
| 1938 | Newton Willoughby McCready | College of Chemistry |
| 1937 | John Roy Whinnery | College of Engineering |
| 1936 | Raymond Constance Martinelli | College of Engineering |
| 1935 | Florence De Gottardi | College of Commerce |
| 1934 | Marjorie Jean Young | College of Chemistry |
| 1933 | John Willard Stout, Jr. | College of Chemistry |
| 1932 | Jane Anne Russell | College of Letters & Science |
| 1931 | Morvyth Joyce Gwendolyn St. Clair McQueen-Williams | College of Letters & Science |
| 1930 | Harold Gould Vesper | College of Chemistry |
| 1929 | Dorothy May Paschall Elizabeth Baldridge Stevenson |
College of Letters & Science College of Letters & Science |
| 1928 | Ralph Raymond Hultgren | College of Mining |
| 1927 | Daniel Silverman | College of Mechanics |
| 1926 | Bernard Sutro Greensfelder | College of Chemistry |
| 1925 | Milton Joseph Polisser | College of Letters & Science |
| 1924 | Joseph Olney Halford | College of Chemistry |
| 1923 | Arthur Edward Murphy | College of Letters & Science |
| 1922 | Waldo Westwater | College of Chemistry |
| 1921 | Georgea Tilton Hine | College of Letters & Science |
| 1920 | Milton Leroy Almquist | College of Mechanics |
| 1919 | William Ray Dennes | College of Letters & Science |
| 1918 | Joseph Louis Zimmerman | College of Letters & Science |
| 1917 | George Lawrence Maxwell | College of Letters & Science |
| 1916 | Kathleen Harnett | College of Mechanics |
| 1915 | Rene Guillou | College of Mechanics |
| 1914 | Clotilde Grunsky | College of Social Sciences |
| 1913 | John Lowrey Simpson | College of Social Sciences |
| 1912 | Lester Seward Ready | College of Mechanics |
| 1911 | Walter Colton Little, Jr. | College of Civil Engineering |
| 1910 | Clinton C. Conrad | College of Mechanics |
| 1909 | Mary Louise Phillips | College of Social Sciences |
| 1908 | Arthur Carl Alvarez | College of Civil Engineering |
| 1907 | Norman Abraham Eisner | College of Social Sciences |
| 1906 | Spencer Cochrane Browne, Jr. | College of Mining |
| 1905 | Dorothea Kern Jewett | College of Letters |
| 1904 | Max Thelen | College of Letters |
| 1903 | Mary Edith McGrew | College of Letters |
| 1902 | Bernard Alfred Etcheverry | College of Civil Engineering |
| 1901 | Wesley Newcomb Hohfield | College of Letters |
| 1900 | James Daniel Mortimer | College of Mechanics |
| 1899 | Lily Hohfeld | College of Letters |
| 1898 | Rowe Montrose Hathaway | College of Natural Sciences |
| 1897 | Charles Allen Elston | College of Social Sciences |
| 1896 | Harry Herbert Jirst | College of Civil Engineering |
| 1895 | Katherine Conway Felton (declined) |
College of Social Sciences |
| 1894 | Harry Manville Wright | College of Letters |
| 1893 | Elinor Maude Croudace | College of Letters: Letters & Political Science |
| 1892 | Joseph Baldwin Garber (declined) |
College of Letters: Letters & Political Science |
| 1891 | Arthur McArthur Seymour (declined) |
College of Letters: Letters & Political Science |
| 1890 | Orrin Kip McMurray | College of Letters: Letters & Political Science |
| 1889 | Herbert Charles Moffitt | College of Chemistry |
| 1888 | James Edgar Beard | College of Letters: Letters & Political Science |
| 1887 | Jacob Samuels | College of Letters: Classical Course |
| 1886 | Frank Fischer | College of Letters: Classical Course |
| 1885 | Claude Bachanan Wakefield | College of Letters: Classical Course |
| 1884 | Charles Adolph Ramm | College of Civil Engineering |
| 1883 | William White Deamer | College of Letters: Classical Course |
| 1882
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David Barcroft John Joseph Dwyer Katherine Hermann Hittell |
College of Civil Engineering College of Letters: Classical Course College of Letters: Classical Course |
| 1881 | Alice E. Pratt Douglas Lindley |
College of Letters: Literary Course College of Mining |
| 1880 | Mary A. Hawley | College of Letters: Literary Course |
| 1879 | Fremont Morse | College of Civil Engineering |
| 1878 | Joseph Hutchinson | College of Mining |
| 1877 | Theodore Gray | College of Letters: Classical Course |
| 1876 | Fred L. Button | College of Civil Engineering |
| 1875 | Dwight B. Huntley | College of Civil Engineering |
| 1874 | Thomas F. Barry | College of Letters: Classical Course |
| 1873 | Frank Otis | College of Letters: Classical Course |
| 1872 | John Mattthews Whitworth | College of Letters |
| 1871 | Frederick Harrison Whitworth | College of Letters |