In memory of Jim Madison, one of the department’s top students in statistics, who died suddenly in 1966 during his second year of the program; the memorial award was later expanded to include his parents. Les Madison was a faculty member of the Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics at CSU for 37 years, 12 of which were spent as chair. This award is given each year to the student selected by the statistics faculty as the outstanding graduate student in the Department of Statistics and/or the Department of Mathematics
- 2023 – Gray Stanton
- 2022 – Nehali Mhatre
- 2021 – Lucy Lu
- 2020 – Mihyun Kim
- 2019 – Josh Hewitt and Frank Marrs
- 2018 – Jialuo Liu and Cristian Oliva
- 2017 – Henry Scharf
- 2016 – LuLu Wang
- 2015 – Jiwen Wu and Cody Alsaker
- 2014 – Libo Sun
- 2013 – Ela Sienkiewicz
- 2012 – Ephraim Hanks and Yuan Wang
- 2011 – Mark Dahlke and Tingjin Chu
- 2010 – Kelly McConville and Hongyu Mike Tan
- 2009 – Damian Wandler
- 2008 – Derek Sonderegger
- 2007 – Lidong E and Stacey Hancock
- 2006 – Wenying Huang and Ke Wang
- 2005 – Todd Iverson and Yang (Vicky) Yu
- 2004 – Rongning Wu
- 2003 – Curtis Storlie
- 2002 – Ann Hess and Gabriel Rodriguez-Yam
- 2001 – Beth Andrews and Devin Johnson
- 2000 – Adao Alexandre Trindade
- 1999 – Paul L. Patterson, III
- 1998 – Jem N. Corcoran and Robert L. Paige
- 1997 – Philippe Naveau and Paul J. Roback
- 1996 – Brent D. Burch and Richard K. Sutton
- 1995 – Matthew V. Calder and Pei-de Chen
- 1994 – Chen-Tuo Liao
- 1993 – Osnat Stramer
- 1991 – James B. Whitmore
- 1990 – F. Jay Breidt
- 1989 – Zhao Ouyang
- 1988 – Charles H. Taylor
- 1987 – Jian Liu
- 1986 – Joseph V. Mandarino
- 1985 – Rocco Ballerini
- 1984 – James A. Calvin
- 1983 – Ricardo A. Leiva
- 1982 – Aldo V. Vecchia
- 1981 – John P. Buonaccorsi
- 1980 – Daren Cline
- 1979 – Hariharan K. Iyer
- 1978 – Lee D. Kaiser and Nelson S. Pacheco
- 1977 – Chih-Ming Wang
- 1976 – Nancy J. Farden
- 1975 – Dominic F. Vecchia
- 1974 – Brent M. Troutman
- 1973 – Earl S. Johnson
- 1972 – David Krants and Purushottam Kulkarni
- 1971 – Ronald Biondini
- 1970 – Daniel L. Thomas
- 1969 – George A. Milliken
- 1968 – Maurice C. Bryson
- 1967 – Robert L. Heiny
