Spears Business students, faculty recognized at Graduate Honors and Award Luncheon

Monday, April 30, 2018

A number of students and faculty were honored on April 6 at the Spears School of Business Graduate Honors and Awards Luncheon at the ConocoPhillips OSU Alumni Center.

“Our Masters and PhD students as well as faculty are doing a great job and achieving amazing things,” said Ramesh Sharda, vice dean for the Watson Graduate School of Management. “So it is heartening to recognize them and celebrate their success. Congratulations to all the winners. I am especially pleased to recognize the professors who were selected by students for doing a superb job in the classroom.”

Among those honored were:

Tessa Recendes, Phillips Dissertation Scholar, PhD (Management) and Outstanding Management Doctoral Student
Yasamin Vahdati, Phillips Dissertation Scholar, PhD (Marketing) and Outstanding Graduate Teaching Associate, PhD (Marketing)
Behrooz Davazdahemami, Phillips Dissertation Scholar, PhD (MSIS)
Abbie Sadler, Phillips Dissertation Scholar, PhD (Accounting)
Inwook Hwang, Phillips Dissertation Scholar, PhD (Economics and Legal Studies)
Paul Sanchez Ruiz, Phillips Dissertation Scholar, PhD (Entrepreneurship) and Outstanding Entrepreneurship Doctoral Student
Isarin Durongkadej, Phillips Dissertation Scholar, PhD (Finance) and Outstanding Finance Doctoral Student
Michelle Draeger, Outstanding Accounting Doctoral Student
Michael Osei, Outstanding Economics and Legal Studies Doctoral Student
Kaleb Fisher, Outstanding Master's Accounting Student
Samantha Cheng, Outstanding Master's Accounting Student
Morgan Olvera, Outstanding Master's Economics and Legal Studies Student
Ileana Maldonado Bautista, Outstanding Master’s in Entrepreneurship Student
Imran Selim, Outstanding MBA Student
Dileep Cherukuri, Outstanding Master’s in Management Information Systems Student
Koshitha Nagarajan, Outstanding Master’s in Information Assurance Student
Varsha Reddy Akkaloori, Outstanding Master’s in Business Analytics Student
Nikhila Kambalapalli, Outstanding Master’s in Business Analytics Student
Ravi Teja Allaparthi, Outstanding Certificate in SAS and OSU Data Mining Student
Shikha Prasad, Outstanding Certificate in SAS and OSU Data Mining Student
Imogen Schramm, Outstanding Certificate in SAS and OSU Marketing Analytics Student
Toby Joplin, Outstanding Stillwater Faculty Teaching Excellence Award and Jack Allen Family Education Foundation Teaching Excellence Award (Tulsa)

Others recognized for outstanding achievement were:

John Dimond, Oklahoma Society of Certified Public Accountants Outstanding Student Award
Kelsey Ray, Oklahoma Society of Certified Public Accountants Outstanding Student Award
Edgar Delgadillo-Plasencia, Federation of Schools of Accountancy Outstanding Student Award
Samuel Laverde, Financial Executives International Outstanding Student Award
Victoria Lloret, Tax Executives International Outstanding Student Award
Paige Mackey, Outstanding ACE Staff Member
Kaleb Fisher, Outstanding Service to the School of Accounting
Samantha Cheng, Outstanding Service to the School of Accounting
Jacob Fowler, OSCPA CPA Exam Performance Award (Silver Medal)
Andrea Polakow, OSCPA CPA Exam Performance Award (Silver Medal)
Vivian O’Hara, OSCPA CPA Exam Performance Award (Honorable Mention)
Ernesto Uribe, OSCPA CPA Exam Performance Award (Honorable Mention)
Blair Beale, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board Student Scholar

For more information on OSU’s Watson Graduate School of Management, visit http://watson.okstate.edu/or call 405-744-9000.