UVA Darden Students Announce Graduation Speakers, End of Year Awards

As Darden’s 22 May graduation nears, University of Virginia Darden School of Business students recently announced a series of end-of-year awards.

The annual recognitions, voted on by students in the Full-Time MBA and Executive MBA programs, celebrate a variety of contributions to the Darden experience.

The elected class speakers for the Darden ceremony will be Class of 2022 students Alex Smith for the Full-Time MBA program and Joe Stanley for the Executive MBA program.

Students also selected the faculty marshals for graduation, with the ceremonial positions awarded to Professors Yael Grushka-Cockayne and Elena Loutskina for the Full-Time MBA and Professor Elliott Weiss for the Executive MBA.

Additional awards presented by the Full-Time MBA Class of 2022 include:

• Kitty Smiley Friend of the Student Award:

  Perry Quarles

  and

  Christy Gunville

• Theo Herbert International Award:

  Chaitali Pandit

  and

  Seun Adeboro

• Club Prize for Excellence:

  Business Ethics at Darden

• Faculty Diversity Award:

  Professor Tami Kim

• Outstanding Faculty Award:

  Professor

  Yael Grushka-Cockayne

Awards presented by the Executive MBA Class of 2022 include:

• Transformational Faculty Award:

  Professor

  Jim Detert

• Friend of the Student Award:

  Laura Bordoni

  and

  Ladi Carr

The Full-Time MBA Class of 2022 recently presented the annual class gift of $128,099, with 85 percent participation. The Executive MBA class gift campaign will end on 21 May.

Learn more about Class of 2022 Final Exercises.