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Graduate Awards Honor the Best of the Class of 2024

May 16, 2024
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Two members of the Babson College graduate Class of 2024 earned multiple recognitions during the Graduate Awards ceremony on Friday night.  

Surya Jayakumar MBA’24 won the Lewis W. Mustard Award for the highest GPA in the Two-Year MBA Program and the Marketing Division Award. Ana Paula Schleske Oliveros MBA’24 won the Charley Osborn Management Information Systems Division Award and the Dean’s Leadership Award. 

All 2024 Graduate Awards recipients: 

Abdul Ali Award — MSBA Program Highest GPA 

  •  Adhiraj Sethi 

Award for Academic Excellence — MSF Program Highest GPA  

  • Akshay Sanjay Kolte 

Award for Academic Excellence — MSEL Program Highest GPA  

  • Dhwani Piyush Shah 

Award for Academic Excellence — One-Year MBA Program Highest GPA 

  • Jeremy Joseph Hemingway 

Lewis W. Mustard Award — Two-Year MBA Program Highest GPA 

  • Surya Jayakumar 

Award for Academic Excellence — Blended Learning MBA Program Highest GPA 

  • Natalia Forero 

Helen O’Brien Award — Part-Time MBA Program Highest GPA 

  • John Michael Houston 

Accounting Division Award 

  • Lauren Bare 

Roger W. Babson Award 

  • Nikhil Nagesh Athreya 

Babson-United Inc. MCFE Award 

  • Sumit Sharma 
  • Kirti Kaul 
  • Stephen P. Connelly  
  • Rameshkumar Jatiya 
  • Chris Tucker 
  • Catherine Noone Ferrera 

Charley Osborn Management Information Systems Division Award 

  • Ana Paula Schleske Oliveros 

Dean’s Leadership Award 

  • Ana Paula Schleske Oliveros 
  • Olubunmi Ajayi 
  • Mohit Bansal 
  • Jillian Leigh Campbell 
  • Rhea Chandrachud 
  • Arkadev Putatunda 
  • Stephanie Dulcey 
  • Nipun Uttam Agarwal 
  • Macarena Vives 
  • Kushal Parekh 

Entrepreneurship Division Award 

  • Iman Bendarkawi 

Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr. Foundation Inc. Global Manager Award 

  • Maria Paramo Oñate 

Finance Division Award MSF 

  • Ryan Christopher Grund 

Finance Division Award MBA 

  • Raffaello Leonio Aquino 

Global Student Leadership Award 

  • Shashank Ranjan 

Graduate Student Alumni and Friends Award 

  • Kraig Pereira 

Management Division Award 

  • Kate Barbara Morin 

Marketing Division Award 

  • Surya Jayakumar 

John Shank Award 

  • Kathleen Elizabeth Jewby 

Ralph Z. and Charlotte R. Sorenson Scholarship Award 

  • Joseph Praveen Randev Fernando 
  • Deepanshi Bansal 

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Tagged Class of 2024, Commencement, Student Life, Graduate

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