Babson Faculty Awards Honor Excellence in Teaching, Scholarship, and Service

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A dozen Babson faculty members were honored earlier this month by their colleagues with prestigious College awards for their excellence in teaching, scholarship, and service.

Dean’s Awards for Excellence in Teaching 

Dean’s Awards for Excellence in Teaching were conferred at the All Faculty Meeting on Sept. 17. The associate deans of the undergraduate and graduate programs, executive director of Babson Executive Education, along with the dean of faculty, selected four faculty members who demonstrated excellence in teaching. This year’s recipients are:

  • Undergraduate Teaching Award: Yasu Yamakawa (associate professor, Entrepreneurship)
  • Graduate Teaching Award: Yunwei Gai (associate professor, Economics)
  • BEE Teaching Award: Alia Crocker (associate professor, Management)
  • College-wide Teaching Award: Jonathan Sims (associate professor, Management)

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Faculty Scholarship Awards

The Faculty Scholarship Awards are chosen by the members of the Babson Faculty Research Fund and the dean of faculty to recognize important scholarly work by faculty across the campus, ranging from the building of theories and frameworks to critical literary analysis. The year’s Faculty Scholarship Award recipients are: 

  • Disciplinary Achievement Award: Ellie Kyung (associate professor, Marketing)
  • Interdisciplinary Research Award: Wiljeana Glover (associate professor, Operations and Information Management; the Stephen C. and Carmella R. Kletjian Foundation Distinguished Professor of Global Healthcare Entrepreneurship)
  • Emerging Scholar Award: Emily Rosado-Solomon (assistant professor, Management)
  • Sustained Achievement Award: Marjorie Feld (professor, History & Society)

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Service Awards

The associate deans of faculty, along with the dean of faculty, identified four faculty members who demonstrated excellence in service activities and outstanding service to the College. While faculty service includes external activities, such as leadership roles in professional associations, this Babson Service Award is focused on activities linked to campus-based service. This year’s Service Award recipients are: 

  • Ahmed Ahmed (assistant professor, Finance)
  • Joanna Carey (associate professor, Mathematics, Analytics, Science, and Technology; Debi and Andy Butler Term Chair)
  • Rubén Mancha (associate professor, Operations and Information Management)
  • Dessislava Pachamanova (professor, Mathematics, Analytics, Science, and Technology; Zwerling Family Endowed Term Chair)

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