UVA Darden Celebrates Top Students, Bestows Highest Student Honor, at Fall Awards
By Dave Hendrick
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business celebrated many of its top Second Year students in its full-time MBA program on 2 September during its annual fall student awards ceremony.
The awards, which recognize students in a variety of academic and community-oriented areas, were held virtually with hundreds of Darden community members tuning in from near and far to wish the students well.
The award ceremony’s centerpiece is the Samuel Forrest Hyde Memorial Fellowship, considered Darden’s highest student honor.
The fellowship, which is given to a student who has made significant contributions to the welfare of the Darden School and shows great career promise, was presented to Maggie Edmunds.
Presenting the award, Darden Professor Tom Steenburgh, senior associate dean for the full-time MBA program, read some of the comments received in support of Edmunds’ nomination, with colleagues describing the Second Year student as someone who “works tirelessly and seeks out opportunities to build a collaborative culture,” “exemplifies the kind of leader Darden hopes to produce” and is “a ray of sunshine.”
“There is no other classmate that is as deserving as she is of this recognition,” said one peer.
Professor Kimberly Whitler presented the G. Robert Strauss Marketing Award to Emily Stover. The award recognizes a student who shows innovative thinking, the ability to develop solutions to real-world problems, and demonstrates compassion for other students.
The C. Steward Sheppard Distinguished Service Award, which is presented to students who display exceptional service to the School and the community of a nonacademic nature, was presented to Alex Goot, Ann Joseph and Anthony “Rek” LeCounte
The William Michael Shermet Award, which honors academic excellence and a “positive competitive spirit” in the First Year, was presented to 15 students. The award winners are:
- Ehab Ansari
- Spencer Bankhead
- Matthew Brown
- Margaret Edmunds
- Jamie Egan
- Matt Filosa
- David Gerardo
- Alex Goot
- Philip Gurney
- Charles Hill
- Julia Hoch
- Mitchel Morris
- Michael O’Brien
- Ankur Pathak
- Andrew Pinckney
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business prepares responsible global leaders through unparalleled transformational learning experiences. Darden’s graduate degree programs (MBA, MSBA and Ph.D.) and Executive Education & Lifelong Learning programs offered by the Darden School Foundation set the stage for a lifetime of career advancement and impact. Darden’s top-ranked faculty, renowned for teaching excellence, inspires and shapes modern business leadership worldwide through research, thought leadership and business publishing. Darden has Grounds in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the Washington, D.C., area and a global community that includes 18,000 alumni in 90 countries. Darden was established in 1955 at the University of Virginia, a top public university founded by Thomas Jefferson in 1819 in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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