1990 Recipients
| Name | Biographical Information | Degree Awarded | Inst |
| Lawrence Heiner | President, Nerco Inc.; UA Mining Engineering alumnus | D. Science | UAF |
| Eliza Jones | Scholar of Athabaskan languages | D. Letters | UAF |
| Josephine Ryman Scott | Founder, Fairbanks Arts Festival; educator | D. Hum. Letters | UAF |
| George N. Nelson | President, BP Exploration | D. Laws | UAF |
| Maynard Miller | Dir., Glaciological and Arctic Services Inst. | D. Science | UAS |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | Pres., Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; Nobel Peace Price Winner 1990 | D. Humanities | UAS |
| Yuri Petrovich Nikitin | Distinguished medical scientist, U.S.S.R. | D. Science | UAA |
| Richard Borshay Lee | Dept. of Anthropology, Univ. of Toronto Professor | D. Letters | UAF |
1991 Recipients
| Name | Biographical Information | Degree Awarded | Inst. |
| Roy M. Huhndorf | Exec., Cook Inlet Region, Inc.; BOR member and pres. | D. Laws | UAA |
| Jin-Ho Kum | Standing Advisor, Korean Foreign Trade Association | D. Laws | UAA |
| Troy Pewe | Quaternary Geologist | D. Science | UAF |
| Grace Berg Schaible | AK Attorney Gen.,1986-89; BOR member 1985-87 | D. Laws | UAF |
| J.B. (Barney) Gottstein | Anch. businessman; President, State Board of Ed. | D. Laws | UAF |
| Dale DeArmond | Decline Award -Southeast Alaskan Artist | D. Hum. Letters | UAS |
| Robert DeArmond | Decline Award -Alaskan Journalist, Historian | D. Letters | UAS |
| Delores Churchill | Haida Basket and Blanket Weaver | D. Hum. Letters | UAS |
| Frank See | Hoonah Businessman | D. Laws | UAS |
1992 Recipients
| Name | Biographical Information | Degree Awarded | Inst. |
| Lawrence Carr | Anchorage businessman | D. Laws | UAA |
| Kenneth T. Richardson | Opthalmic Surgeon; UAA instructor | D. Science | UAA |
| Gilbert Truitt | Alaska Native Educator | D. Laws | UAF |
| Mary Jane Fate | Alaska Native activist; Member BOR | D. Laws | UAF |
| James McCann | Alaska State Trooper Investigator | D. Laws | UAF |
| Doris Southall | Alaskan Nurse | D. Laws | UAF |
| Kay Kennedy | Journalist/Alaska Pioneer | D. Hum. Letters | UAF |
| George Schaller | UAF alumni; internationally renowned zoologist | D. Science | UAF |
| Thomas Stewart | Alaska Judge | D. Laws | UAS |
| Carl W. Heinmiller | Magistrate, Alaska Native advocate | D. Laws | UAS |
1993 Recipients
| Name | Biographical Information | Degree Awarded | Inst. |
| Joe Flakne | Conservationist/Women’s Rights Supporter | D. Laws | UAF |
| Dorothy Loftus | Founding member of the UA Alumni Association | D. Laws | UAF |
| Paul Rosenthal | Renowned Violinist | D. Hum. Letters | UAA |
| Arliss Sturgelewski | Alaskan Legislator | D. Laws | UAA |
| Leslie Viereck | Scientist, Institute of Northern Forestry | D. Science | UAF |
| William Pruitt | Zoology Professor, Univ. Manitoba, Canada | D. Science | UAF |
| Dorothy Jean Ray | AK Pioneer/studies in Eskimo history, art, ceremonies | D. Hum. Letters | UAF |
| Daniel Boorstin | Librarian of Congress Emeritus/Pulitzer Prize Historian | D. Hum. Letters | UAF |
1994 Recipients
| Name | Biographical Information | Degree Awarded | Inst. |
| Maxwell E. Britton | Researcher; facilitated dev. of Nat. Arctic Res. Lab. in Barrow | D. Science | UAF |
| Peter John | Athabaskan leader; Chief guest lecturer | D. Hum. Letters | UAF |
| Robert McMillen | northernMOMENTUM Chair | D. Laws | UAF |
| Einar Sverre Pedersen | Aviator | D. Science | UAF |
| Esther Shea | Instructor; research on lifestyle of Tlingit people | D. Laws | UAS |
| Phil Holdsworth | AK Commissioner of Mines and Nat. Res. | D. Laws | UAS |
| Mahala Ashley Dickerson | 1st State of Alaska female and black Attorney/Civil Rights Advocate | D. Laws | UAA |
| John W. Katz | Special Counsel to Gov. of AK during ANILCA; dir. of State/Fed. Re. for four Governors | D. Laws | UAA |
| Dr. Subroto | OPEC Secretary General | D. Laws | UAA |
1995 Recipients
| Year | Name | Biographical Information | Degree Awarded | Inst. | |
| 1995 | Jack Townsend | Chief of College Observatory | D. Science | UAF | |
| 1995 | Gerd Hartmann | Professor of Zoology, U. of Hamburg | D. Science | UAF | |
| 1995 | Barbara Washburn | 1st woman to climb Mt. McKinley, mapper and photographer | D. Science | UAF | |
| 1995 | Ned Hermann | Expert on study of the brain; Whole Brain Concept | D. Science | UAF | |
| 1995 | Robert Fortuine | d | Alaskan Physician; author | D. Science | UAA |
| 1995 | Katherine Hurley | Asst.to Gov's Gruening and Egan; AK State Rep.; 1st woman in AK to be nominated for Lt. Gov. | D. Laws | UAS |
1996 Recipients
| Name | Biographical Information | Degree Awarded | Inst. |
| Jill Ker Conway | Historian specializing in women in America; Smith College president; author | D. Letters | UAF |
| Jalmar Kerttula | State Leg. for 32 years; Commissioner of Agric. | D. Laws | UAF |
| Howard Luke | Native Leader dedicated to educating youth in traditional skills. | D. Hum. Letters | UAF |
| Joseph E. Usibelli Sr. | Chair of Usibelli Coal Mine; philanthropist | D. Laws | UAF |
| Ellen Hayes | Hope Tlingit Historian; 1st woman member of AK Native Brotherhood | D. Laws | UAS |
| Richard Engen | Director of Alaska State Library for 20 years | D. Letters | UAA |
1997 Recipients
| Name | Biographical Information | Degree Awarded | Inst. |
| Allen H. Neuharth | Founder of USA Today; journalist | D. Hum. Letters | UAF |
| Charles E. Robinson | AK businessman in the field of communications | D. Laws | UAF |
| Neal B. Brown | Poker Flat Res. Range Dir. from 1971-89; leader in space science | D. Laws | UAF |
| Lidia Lippi Selkregg | earthquakes Geologist ; Anch. Borough Assembly; res. economics prof. | D. Laws | UAA |
1999 Recipients
| Name | Biographical Information | Degree Awarded | Inst. |
| Rie Munoz | Alaskan artist | D. Arts | UAS |
| Lois B. DeFleur | President, Binghamton University | D. Laws | UAF |
| Frank Chapados | Elected to first AK State Leg.; trans. infrastructure of AK | D. Laws | UAF |
| Keizo Obuchi | Prime Minister of Japan | D. Laws | UAF |
| Katherine Peter | Transcribed largest Gwich'in writing in this century. Central figure in Native Lang. Center. | D. Laws | UAF |
| David M. Hickok | First director of Sea-Grant; founded AEIDC | D. Science | UAA |
| David Rose | Director of AK Permanent Fund | D. Laws | UAA |
