UW Faculty, Staff and Students Receive College of Business Awards

Faculty, staff and students in the University of Wyoming’s College of Business received several awards during the college’s recent recognition dinner.

The 74th annual dinner took place in the Marian H. Rochelle Gateway Center and honored scholarship recipients and donors to the College of Business.

Faculty teaching awards, listed by name and department, were:

-- Committed Educator Award: Nontenure-track faculty member Andrew McKamey, Department of Accounting and Finance.

-- Excellence in Teaching Award: Junior faculty member Natasha Bernhardt, Department of Accounting and Finance.

-- Distinguished Teaching Award: Senior faculty member Linda Price, Department of Management and Marketing.

-- Impact Award: Greg Livingston, Department of Management and Marketing.

-- MBA Teaching Excellence Award: William Campbell, Department of Graduate Programs.

Faculty research awards, listed by name and department, were:

-- Belt Buckle Research Awards: Cameron Borgholthaus, Department of Management and Marketing; Matt Burgess, Department of Economics; Todd Cherry, Department of Economics; Jeffrey Covin, Department of Management and Marketing; Mac Festa, Department of Accounting and Finance; David Finnoff, Department of Economics; Abhay Grover, Department of Management and Marketing; Samuel Matthews, Department of Management and Marketing; Elizabeth Minton, Department of Management and Marketing; Linda Price, Department of Management and Marketing; Ronn Smith, Department of Management and Marketing; Chase Thiel, Department of Management and Marketing; Linda Thunstrom, Department of Economics; Patrick Witz, Department of Accounting and Finance; and Kenneth Zheng, Department of Accounting and Finance.

Staff awards, listed by name and department, were:

-- Rookie of the Year: Geoff Tyrrell, Dean’s Office.

-- Student Success Above All Else: Awarded to student-facing staff member in the Peter M. and Paula Green Johnson Student Success Center (GJSSC), Paige Johnson.

-- Consider It Done Award (tie): Carlinda Asay and Sena Krula, both in the Dean’s Office.

-- Beyond the Call of Duty, the college’s top staff award: Brian Barr, Dean’s Office.

Student awards, listed by department, name and hometown, were:

Department of Accounting and Finance

-- Wyoming Society of CPAs Outstanding Master’s Student in Accounting: Amy Jokel, from Rock Springs.

-- Wyoming Society of CPAs Outstanding Graduating Senior: Charlotte Ward, from Casper.

-- Wyoming Society of CPAs Outstanding Junior: Elise Macy, from Cheyenne.

-- Outstanding Junior in Accounting: Daljit Kaur, from Burns.

-- Outstanding Junior in Finance: McCoy Bush, from Cheyenne.

-- Outstanding Senior in Accounting: Ronald Winter, from Laramie.

-- Outstanding Senior in Finance: Makenzi Scott, from Rock Springs.

-- Outstanding Master’s Student in Accounting: Alex Gruenhagen, from Saratoga.

-- Outstanding Master’s Student in Finance: Josie Horn, from Laramie.

Department of Economics

-- Outstanding Junior: Byson Taylor, from Laramie.

-- Outstanding Senior (tie): Katelyn Fisher, from Riverton; and Makenzi Scott, from Rock Springs.

-- Outstanding Master’s Student: Irman Sazzad, from Dhaka, Bangladesh.

-- Outstanding First-Year Ph.D. Student: Finbar Curtin, from Washington, Vt.

-- William E. Morgan Graduate Award: Peri Brimley, from Salt Lake City, Utah.

-- Shelby Gerking Graduate Award: Chandler Hubbard, from Centreville, Ala., and Sal Spada, from Laramie.

-- Outstanding Ph.D. Teaching Student: Ian Fletcher, from Rock Springs.

-- Outstanding Ph.D. Research Student: Katherine Barkley, from Germantown, Tenn.

Department of Management and Marketing

-- Outstanding Junior in Management: McCoy Bush, from Cheyenne.

-- Outstanding Junior in Marketing: Aseel Abu Tarboush, from Amman, Jordan.

-- Outstanding Junior in Entrepreneurship: Priya Chaudhari, from Laramie.

-- Outstanding Junior in Professional Selling: Shelby Smith, from Wright.

-- Outstanding Senior in Management: Ethan Winstead, from Virginia Beach, Va.

-- Outstanding Senior in Marketing: Harrison Rankin, from Cheyenne.

-- Outstanding Senior in Entrepreneurship: Benjamin Davidson, from Laramie.

-- Outstanding Senior in Professional Selling: Annabelle Pierson, from Manhattan, Mont.

-- Outstanding Ph.D. Teaching Student: Alessandra Lisanti, from Laramie.

-- Outstanding Ph.D. Research Student: Suman Saha, from Kalyani, India.

MBA Program

-- MBA Ethics Award, sponsored by the Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative Collegiate Program: Dillon McLean, from Laramie.

-- Outstanding MBA Campus Student: Cord Anderson, from Laramie.

-- Outstanding MBA Online Student: Tiffany Hatfield, from Pocatello, Idaho.

College-Level Awards

-- Attilio and Hedy Bedont Outstanding Graduate Student Award: Peri Brimley, from Salt Lake City, Utah.

-- Karla M. Vavold, DDS Outstanding Junior Student Award and Undergraduate Student of the Year: Daljit Kaur, from Burns.

-- Karla M. Vavold DDS Outstanding Sophomore Student: Haley Cranwell, from Hays, Kan.

-- Karla M. Vavold DDS Outstanding Freshman Student: Joseph May, from Brush, Colo.