NCSE's Friend of Darwin award is conferred annually to people (and occasionally organizations) whose efforts to support NCSE and advance its goals have been truly outstanding. The most recent recipients are the Homo naledi research team led by Lee R. Berger, Laura Helmuth, and Bertha Vazquez for 2023.
Previous Recipients
Tiffany Adrain
Bruce Alberts
Brian Alters
Philip Appleman
Ken Atkins
John Banister-Marx
Ed Barber
Yves Barbero
Gary L. Bennett
Marshall Berman
Tim M. Berra
Ed Brayton
Dirk "Baba" Brinkman
Aralene "Barrie" D. Callahan*
Frederick B. Callahan*
Sean Carroll
Robert Cashner
Rob Dillon
Fred Edwords
Niles Eldredge
Wesley R. Elsberry
Susan Epperson
Marjorie Esman
Beth Eveland*
Joe Felsenstein
Deborah Fenimore*
Richard Firenze
Faye Flam
Larry Flammer
Barbara Forrest
Steve Gey
Lee Hartz
Stephen G. Harvey
Brandon Haught
John F. Haught
David Hillis
Victor Hutchison
M. Kim Johnson
Richard B. Katskee
Philip Kitcher
Tammy Kitzmiller*
Zack Kopplin
Lawrence Krauss
Jack Krebs
Jim Krupa
Adam Laats
Jay Labov
Edward J. Larson
Richard E. Lenski
Lawrence S. Lerner
Joel Lieb*
Jere Lipps
Betty McCollister
William McComas
Kenneth R. Miller
Steve Mirsky
Randy Moore
Mohamed Noor
Ronald L. Numbers
Robert T. Pennock
Andrew J. Petto
Daniel J. Phelps
Briana Pobiner
Patricia Princehouse
Donald R. Prothero
Bryan Rehm*
Christy Rehm*
Steve Rissing
Eric Rothschild
Thomas Charles Sager
Steven Schafersman
Judy Scotchmoor
Neil Shubin
Gerald Skoog
Julie Smith*
Cynthia Sneath*
Frank Sonleitner
Alan Spector
Paula Spence
Robert Stephens
Steven Stough*
David E. Thomas
Joe Thornton
Richard Trott
Howard Van Till
Ira Walters
Lacey Wieser
Ronald Wetherington
Witold Walczak
Lisa D. White
Jason R. Wiles
Joe Wolf
Carl Zimmer
Michael Zimmerman
* – Plaintiff in Kitzmiller v. Dover
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