Each year, the Foundation invites the presidents of 50 universities to nominate two early‐career professors each from their institutions.
- Brown University
- California Institute of Technology
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Columbia University
- Cornell University
- Duke University
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- Harvard University
- Johns Hopkins University
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- New York University
- Northwestern University
- Ohio State University
- Pennsylvania State University
- Princeton University
- Purdue University
- Rice University
- Stanford University
- SUNY at Stony Brook
- Texas A&M University
- The State University of New Jersey – Rutgers
- University of Arizona
- University of California, Berkeley
- University of California, Davis
- University of California, Irvine
- University of California, Los Angeles
- University of California, San Diego
- University of California, San Francisco
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- University of California, Santa Cruz
- University of Chicago
- University of Colorado, Boulder
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- University of Maryland, College Park
- University of Michigan
- University of Minnesota – Twin Cities
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Pittsburgh
- University of Rochester
- University of Southern California
- University of Texas at Austin
- University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center
- University of Utah
- University of Virginia
- University of Washington
- University of Wisconsin – Madison
- Vanderbilt University
- Washington University in St. Louis
- Yale University