On Monday, The Strome College of Business held its annual Awards Ceremony, highlighting and recognizing excellence in its students, faculty and staff.

Congratulations to all the outstanding award recipients!

Student Awards

Strome College of Business Alumni Award

Daniel Tekleab

Bagwell-Jones Prize for Outstanding Student Achievement

Martina Ciriesi

Outstanding MBA Student

Raul Acevedo

Outstanding Accounting Students

Alexis Giessuebel & Kalan Pope

Forvis Endowment for Interns

Alexis Christensen

The Henry “Hank†Ziegenfuss Managerial Auditing Award

Winnie Maina

Institute of Management Accountants Graduate Management Accounting Student Award

Mary Katigbak



John W. Kerr, Jr. Outstanding Graduate Taxation Student Award

Jacob Cobb

Outstanding Accounting Graduate Student Awards

Sabrina Atkisson & Jacob Cobb

Jack W. Nickson and Nathaniel Shechter Memorial Prize for Excellence in Economics

Justin King

Agarwal and Yochum Endowed Scholarship

Amy L. Straus

Yochum and Agarwal Endowed Scholarship

Aaron E. Sanford

Outstanding Economics Student

Katherine Hemsworth

Outstanding Finance Student

Daniel Tekleab

Outstanding Real Estate Student

Chau Nguyen



Outstanding Risk Management and Insurance Student

Anastasiya Makara

William H. Crouch Chapter of the Information Systems and Project Management Professionals Outstanding Student

Kenlee Hylton

Outstanding Information Technology Student

Olesya Goolie

The Carol Markowski Outstanding Business Analytics Student

Ella Gaughan



Marek Wermus Business Analytics Award

Jason Roettger

Outstanding International Business Student

Emily Goline

Outstanding Maritime and Supply Chain Management Student

Davon Woodmancy

Outstanding Management Student

Christopher Terry



Outstanding Human Resource Management Student

Martina Ciriesi

Outstanding Marketing Student

Jalise Hopkins

Outstanding MA in Economics Students

Aliou Ousmane Ba & Ria Nandgopal Kolarao

Outstanding MPA Students

Summer Peebles & Amelia Frelier

Pindur Award MPA

Nicole Taper Gore

Outstanding Doctoral Student in Finance

Reihaneh Haghighi Zadeh

Outstanding Doctoral Student in IT/Supply Chain Management

Ziwei Ye

Outstanding Doctoral Student in Management

Jamil Kreugel

Outstanding Doctoral Student in Marketing

Faegheh Taheran

Outstanding Doctoral Student in Public Administration and Policy

Mark Bateman

Outstanding Cadet

Cadet Melixa Willis-Betancur (Public Health Administration Major)

Cadet Leadership Award

Cadet Ryan M. Josephson (Business Analytics Major)

Faculty/Staff Awards

Outstanding Adjunct Faculty Teaching Award

Susan Craft

Outstanding Non-Tenure Faculty Teaching Award

Jennifer Vaziralli

Outstanding Ann Scott Daugherty Tenure Faculty Teaching Award

Sheila Keener

Outstanding Doctoral Mentoring Award

Ling Li

Outstanding Ann Scott Daugherty Tenure Faculty Senior Research Award

John Ford 

Outstanding Ann Scott Daugherty Tenure Faculty Senior Research Award

Wie Yusuf

Outstanding Ann Scott Daugherty Tenure Faculty Junior Research Award

Kameron Carter

Outstanding Faculty Tenure Service Award

Jay O’Toole

Outstanding Faculty Non-Tenure Service Award

Paige O’Shaughnessy

Outstanding Faculty Advising Award

Sara Russell Riggs

Outstanding Administrative Faculty Award

Megan Jones



Outstanding Staff Award

Tarsha Turner