Young Alumni Award (LAS)

Awarded to alumni of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences who are under 40 years of age and who have excelled in their professions and provided service to their communities.

Young Alumni
Year Recipient ISU Degree(s) and Graduation Year
2023 Clayton Mooney ’12 English
2022 Zach Johnson ’09 journalism and mass communication
2022 Maggie Luttrell Roby ’09 history and women’s studies,
’11 Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
2022 Tom Schenk, Jr. ’07 economics
2021 Jessica Mawes Braithwaite ’08 Political Science and International Studies
2020 Justin K. Hines ’04 biochemistry
PhD ’07, biochemistry
2018 Dan Winters ’03 journalism and mass communication
2017 Christy Doornink ’00 philosophy and environmental studies
2017 Adam Clark ’03 meteorology, MS
’06, Ph.D. ’09
2016 Tyler P. Stafford ’11 advertising and speech communications
2015 Matthew D. Gleason ’02 political science
2012 Lauren S. Hughes ’02 Spanish and zoology
2010 Sarah Brown Wessling ’98 English education
MA ’03 English
2009 Gentry Collins ’98 political science
2008 Paxton Williams ’00 political science and communication studies
2006 Christine Romans ’93 journalism and mass communication and French
2005 Sean McLaughlin ’88 journalism and mass communication