The Ivy College of Business is proud to honor the exceptional work of our PhD students. Our college-level awards recognize members of the Ivy PhD student community who have gone above and beyond in demonstrating excellence in teaching and research.

Award honorees

  • Haley Paluzzi

    Haley Paluzzi

    Teaching Excellence Award, spring 2024

  • Amir-Zahedi

    Amir Zahedi

    Research Excellence Award, summer 2024
    Teaching Excellence Award, fall 2023

  • Joshua Schumm

    Joshua Schumm

    Research Excellence Award, fall 2023

Previous award honorees

2023 award winners (spring)

Graduate College Teaching Excellence Award: Joshua Schumm

Graduate College Research Excellence Award: Mauricio Mercado

2022 award winners

Graduate College Teaching Excellence Award: Chris Faires, Carlos Valladares, Jake Telkamp

Graduate College Research Excellence Award: Danni Tu, Khashayar Afshar Bakeshloo

2021 award winners

Graduate College Teaching Excellence Award: Alaa Nehme

Graduate College Research Excellence Award: Preetinder Kaur

2020 award winners

Graduate College Teaching Excellence Award: Ke Gong, Isidro Linan Jimenez

Graduate College Research Excellence Award: Bo (Larry) Lan

2019 award winners

Graduate College Teaching Excellence Award: Bo (Larry) Lan, Shuang (Sophie) Zhai

Graduate College Research Excellence Award: Younggeun Lee, Prabhjot Singh, Amin Rostami

2018 award winners

Graduate College Teaching Excellence Award: Prabhjot Singh, Fei (Sophie) Song, Sina Amiri, Akmal Mirsadikov

2016 award winners

Graduate College Teaching Excellence Award: Inmyung Choi, Melika Kordrostami

2014 award winners

Graduate College Teaching Excellence Award: Manjul Gupta, Akshaya Vijayalakshmi

2013 award winners

Graduate College Teaching Excellence Award: Andy Luse, Arunachalam Swaminathan

2012 award winners

Graduate College Teaching Excellence Award: David Correll

Previous awards

Rama and Sridhar Ramaswami Marketing Research Excellence Award

Year Name
2020 Veronica Martin Ruiz
2019 Amin Rostami
2018 Pushpinder Gill
2017 Pushpinder Gill
2016 Russell Lemken
2015 Akshaya Vijayalakshmi

Research Excellence Award

Year Name
2020 Younggeun Lee
2019 Younggeun Lee
2017 Xinxue (Shawn) Qu
2016 Akmal Mirsadikov
2015 Saurabh Ambulkar

Outstanding Doctoral Student Research Award

Year Name
2018 Xinxue (Shawn) Qu

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