Among the national and international award recipients recognized are the U’s Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences winners, national academies inductees, and Rhodes, Truman, and Marshall Scholars.  University award recipients recognized include the Regents Professors, McKnight Distinguished Professors, McKnight Presidential Chairs, Morse-Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Teachers, and the Outstanding Graduate and Professional Teachers. A special faculty committee assisted planners of the Scholars Walk in determining the names of those to be included.

The Scholars Walk stretches from Walnut Street near the McNamara Alumni Center west to Appleby Hall and Pleasant Street. It is the major east-west walkway on the East Bank campus, complementing the beautiful Northrop Mall which runs north-south.

CFANS Scholars Walk Honorees

Nobel Prize
Norman Borlaug, B.S. Forestry, 1937; M.S. (1939) and Ph.D. (1942), Plant Pathology
National Academy of Sciences
Vernon W. Ruttan	Applied Economics	1990
Ronald L. Phillips	Agronomy and Plant Genetics	1991
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
G. Edward Schuh	Applied Economics	1977
National Medal of Science
Norman Borlaug	Plant Physiology	2006
Regents Professors
Clyde M. Christensen	Plant Pathology	1973
Vernon W. Ruttan	Agriculture and Applied Economics	1986
Ronald L. Phillips	Agronomy and Plant Genetics	1993
Senior McKnight Professors
McKnight Presidential Chair
Ronald Phillips	Genomics	1999
McKnight Distinguished University Professors
C. Ford Runge	Applied Economics	1998
Ann M. Fallon	Entomology	1999
Peter Reich	Forest Resources	2003
Nevin Young	Plant Pathology	2004
Michael Sadowsky	Soil, Water & Climate	2004
David A. Andow	Entomology	2005
Morse-Alumni Award Recipients
Donald Liu	Department of Applied Economics	2005-06
Marshall D. Stern	Department of Animal Science	2005-06
Michael E. White	Department of Animal Science	2004-05
Dorothy H. Anderson	Department of Forest Resources	1999-2000
Jim Perry	Department of Fisheries and Wildlife	1998-99
Alan G. Hunter	Department of Animal Science	1995-96
Terence H. Cooper	Department of Soil, Water, and Climate	1995-96
Emily E. Hoover	Department of Horticulture	1994-95
Thomas A. Scanlan	Department of Rhetoric	1993-94
Leslie B. Hansen	Department of Animal Science	1993-94
Willis L. Peterson	College of Agriculture	1991-92
Bert T. Swanson II	College of Agriculture	1990-91
Laurie Schultz Hayes	College of Agriculture	1989-90
Steve R. Simmons	College of Agriculture	1988-89
Donald E. Otterby	College of Agriculture	1988-89
Theodore P. Labuza	College of Agriculture	1987-88
Eugene C. Allen	College of Agriculture	1983-84
Russell S. Adams Jr.	College of Agriculture	1982-83
Vernon B. Cardwell	College of Agriculture	1980-81
Richard D. Goodrich	College of Agriculture	1978-79
Harold F. Arneman	College of Agriculture	1978-79
Howard Morris	College of Agriculture	1974-75
Arnett C. Mace	College of Forestry	1973-74
Fred E. Koller	College of Agriculture	1971-1972
John D. Helmberger	College of Agriculture	1970-71
Laddie J. Elling	College of Agriculture	1970-71
Merle P. Meyer	College of Forestry	1967-68
Lawrence H. Smith	College of Agriculture	1967-68
Kenneth E. Winsness	College of Forestry	1965-66
Award for Outstanding Contributions to Graduate and Professional Education
Susan M. Galatowitsch	Department of Horticulture	2003-04
Francesca Cuthbert	Department of Fisheries and Wildlife	2002-03
Larry L. McKay	Department of Food Science and Nutrition	2000-01
Kenneth N. Brooks	Department of Forest Resources	2000-01
Major Disciplinary Awards from Professional and Scholarly Societies
USDA-ARS, Crop Science Research Award
D. K. Barnes	Agronomy & Plant Genetics	1987
G. H. Heichel	Agronomy & Plant Genetics	1987
C. P. Vance	Agronomy & Plant Genetics	1987
Ronald L. Phillips	Agronomy & Plant Genetics	1988
Monsanto Crop Science Distinguished Career Award
Donald C. Rasmussen	Agronomy & Plant Genetics