This endowment, established in 1995, is the result of contributions from Hellmut Golde and other faculty plus matching funds from the UW Fellowship Fund and the Microsoft Challenge.
| Year | Awardee |
| 1995-96 | Gail Murphy |
| 1996-97 | Jim Fix |
| 1997-98 | Craig Kaplan |
| 1998-99 | Todd Millstein |
| 1999-2000 | Sean Sandys |
| 2000-2001 | Adam Carlson |
| 2001-2002 | Isaac Kunen |
| 2002-2003 | Ken Yasuhara |
| 2003-2004 | Tammy VanDeGrift |
| 2004-2005 | Don Patterson |
| 2005-2006 | Lin Liao |
| 2006-2007 | Timothy Scott Saponas |
| 2007-2008 | Craig Prince |
| 2008-2009 | Michael Piatek |
| 2009-2010 | Not awarded |
| 2010-2011 | Not awarded |
| 2011-2012 | Not awarded |
| 2012-2013 | Camille Cobb |
| 2013-2014 | Not awarded |
| 2014-2015 | Jay Garlapati |
| 2015-2016 | Christopher Xie |
| 2016-2017 | Not awarded |
| 2017-2018 | Christine Geeng |
| 2018-2019 | Matt Whitehill |
| 2019-2020 | Raymond Fok |
| 2020-2021 | Rock Pang |
| 2021-2022 | Gian Marco Visani |
| 2022-2023 | Daniel Kim |
| 2023-2024 | Zixian Ma |
| 2024-2025 | Tangqi Fang |