Congratulations to the 2019 L.E. Kunkle Award winner, Alex Tebbe. This award is given to an outstanding graduate student in recognition of valuable contributions to the Graduate Program in Animal Sciences. The recognition is in the form of a permanent plaque engraved with the name of the recipient and in a personal plaque for the recipient. The sons of L.E. Kunkle chose to honor their father by providing this award in his name.
The following students have received the Kunkle Award.
| 1975 | Keith Irvin | 2003 | Christopher R. Burke |
| 1976 | Husnu Yusuf Gokalp | 2004 | Claudio Ribeiro |
| 1977 | Richard D. Cassidy | 2005 | John Sylvester |
| 1978 | William H. Mast | 2006 | Milton Gorocica |
| 1979 | Edward W. Mills | 2007 | Michael Scott Updike |
| 1980 | Johnathan Goodson | 2008 | Daniel Poole |
| 1981 | Richard G. Shield, Jr. | 2009 | Amy Radunz |
| 1982 | Carol S Pierson | 2010 | Tara Felix |
| 1982 | Diane M. Sharkey | 2011 | Sara Crawford |
| 1983 | Darrell L. Wilkes | 2012 | Matthew Utt |
| 1984 | Daniel L. Uher | 2013 | Michael Cressman |
| 1984 | Debra A. Knight | 2014 | Jessica Pempek |
| 1985 | Paul F. Maxson | 2015 | Bo Harstine |
| 1986 | Glenn A. Peterson | 2016 | Matthew Faulkner |
| 1987 | Cheryl D. Spencer | 2017 | Stephanie Hutsko |
| 1988 | Michael Bishop | 2018 | Jerad Jaborek |
| 1989 | David M Greene | 2019 | Alex Tebbe |
| 1990 | Elizabeth A. Newton | ||
| 1991 | Ricardo Rodriquez | ||
| 1991 | Norma Pensel | ||
| 1992 | Stanton L. Boyce | ||
| 1993 | Francis Fluharty | ||
| 1994 | Pero Dimsoski | ||
| 1995 | David Stick | ||
| 1996 | Les Anderson | ||
| 1997 | Stacy Kacierk | ||
| 1998 | Bradley S. Oldick | ||