The Friends of the Old Dominion University Library present an award each
year at the Annual Author Dinner to a member of the university community who has consistently excelled
through writing in his or her discipline for a span of years. Recipients since the establishment of the award are noted here.
Douglas Ziegenfuss, 2007, Professor of Accounting at Old Dominion University
Katherine T. Bucher, 2006, Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at Old Dominion University
Karl H. Schoenbach, 2005, Director of the Center for Bioelectrics at Old Dominion University
Cynthia M. Jones , 2004, Director of the Center for Quantitative Fisheries Ecology at Old Dominion University
Michele Darby, 2003, Eminent Scholar and University Professor, past Chair of Dental Hygiene and graduate program director
Jeffrey H. Richards, 2002, Professor and Chair of the Department of English.
Carl Boyd, 2001, Louis I. Jaffé Professor of History and Eminent Scholar, renowned military historian.
Robert L. Ash, 2000, Professor of Aerospace Engineering and internationally respected research scholar in aerospace.
Wayne K. Talley, 1999, Eminent Scholar and Frederick W. Beazley Professor of Economics.
Maurice R. Berube, 1998, Eminent Scholar of Educational Leadership and Counseling.
Helen C. Rountree, 1997, Professor of Sociology and expert in the Powhatan Indians of Virginia and Native Americans of the Eastern Shore of Virginia and Maryland.
Daniel E. Shonenshine, 1996, Eminent Scholar of Biology and world's leading authority on the tick.
Alf J. Mapp, Jr., 1995, Eminent Scholar Emeritus of English and a true friend of the Library
