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Schwartz Award Winners

  • Head shot of Steve Coon.
    Steve Coon announced as 2024 James W. Schwartz Award winner

    October 23, 2024

  • Alan and Steve Mores named Greenlee School’s 2023 James W. Schwartz Award recipients

    March 27, 2024

  • 2022: James Thomas (Tom) Emmerson

    Emmerson’s Iowa State career spans from being a student in the 1950s, returning in 1974 as a professor, and serving as chair of the Department… Read More

    August 31, 2022

  • 2021: Debra Solberg Gibson

    Debra Solberg Gibson’s (1981) career at Iowa State began in 1982 after a stint as editor of Farm Review, the Spencer Daily Reporter’s monthly agribusiness publication based in… Read More

    May 2, 2022

  • 2020: Rick Phillips

    Rick Phillips (1978) joined Nationwide in 1999, after spending 20+ years working in communications, marketing and public relations positions for Meredith Corporation, United Way of… Read More

    November 11, 2020

  • 2019: Kim Guthrie

    Kim Guthrie (1984) is the President of Cox Media Group and the first female president to serve at its 120-year-old parent company Cox Enterprises. As… Read More

    May 1, 2020

  • 2018: William F. “Bill” Tubbs

    Bill Tubbs (1971), publisher of the Eldridge (IA) North Scott Press is an award-winning writer who is the National Newspaper Association’s 2015 James O. Read More

    August 31, 2018

  • 2017: Gene and Margy Chamberlin

    [Margaret “Margy” and the late L. Eugene “Gene” Chamberlin](https://wp.las.iastate.edu/greenlee/2017/04/25/margaret-and-l-eugene-chamberlin-win-greenlee-schools-2017-schwartz-award/) established one of the Greenlee School’s signature programs, the Chamberlin Lecture series, to bring national perspectives… Read More

    May 11, 2017

  • 2016: Dean Borg

    Dean Borg (1959), senior correspondent and producer for Iowa Public Radio, is one of Iowa’s leading voices on public policy and politics. Borg has dedicated… Read More

    March 8, 2017

  • 2015: Bob and Diane Greenlee

    Bob (1963, 1968) and Diane (1966) Greenlee helped elevate Iowa State University as a premier place to study journalism and mass communication. In 1998, a generous gift from Bob and Diane transformed one of the university’s oldest programs into the university’s first named school. Read More

    June 7, 2015