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Graduate Awards Honor the Best of the Class of 2023

May 16, 2023
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Seven members of the Babson College graduate Class of 2023 received multiple recognitions during the Graduate Awards ceremony Friday night.

Martha Buckley MBA’23 won the prestigious Roger W. Babson Award and the Babson-United Inc. MCFE Award. Santucee Syi-keema Bell MBA’23 won the Entrepreneurship Award and the Management Award.

Richard Edward Battista MBA’23 won the Graduate Alumni and Friends Award and a Dean’s Leadership Award. David J. Ettenson MBA’23 won the Finance Award MBA and the Ralph Z. and Charlotte R. Sorenson Scholarship Award.

Sabrina Fernández Marino MBA’23 won the Award for Academic Excellence for the highest GPA in the Blended Learning MBA program, as well as the Accounting Award.

Luciana Capurro Behr MSEL’23 won the Award for Academic Excellence for the highest GPA in the MSEL program; and Mitali Milon Nag MBA’23 won the Award for Academic Excellence for highest GPA in the One-Year MBA program. Both Behr and Nag also received Dean’s Leadership Awards.

All 2023 Graduate Awards recipients:

Abdul Ali Award — MSBA Program Highest GPA

  • Kristin Wendell

Award for Academic Excellence — MSF Program Highest GPA

  • Florian Mehl
  • Maria Toledano Cabrera

Award for Academic Excellence — MSEL Program Highest GPA

  • Luciana Capurro Behr

Award for Academic Excellence — MSAEL Program Highest GPA

  • Yosuke Kawagoe

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

  • Mitali Milon Nag

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

  • William Peter Aherne

Award for Academic Excellence — Blended Learning MBA Program Highest GPA

  • Sabrina Fernández Marino

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

  • Sonam Singh

Accounting Award

  • Sabrina Fernández Marino

Roger W. Babson Award

  • Martha Buckley

Babson-United Inc. MCFE Award

  • Martha Buckley
  • Craig William Hone

Charley Osborn Management Information Systems Award

  • David Ostrovsky

Dean’s Leadership Award

  • Kkhush Aggarwal
  • Richard Edward Battista
  • Veni Sindhu Priya Bommareddy
  • Luciana Capurro Behr
  • Stephen Whitney Cargill
  • Hweedo Chang
  • Rodrigo Augusto Corrêa Custódio
  • Leonardo Arantes de Souza Fernandes
  • Mitali Milon Nag
  • Kelly Margaret Stewart

Entrepreneurship Award

  • Santucee Syi-keema Bell

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

  • Gemma Molins Gutierrez

Finance Award MBA

  • David J. Ettenson

Global Student Leadership Award

  • Abdalla Ahmed Alzarooni

Graduate Alumni and Friends Award

  • Richard Edward Battista

Management Award

  • Santucee Syi-keema Bell

Marketing Award

  • Pranjal Marwaha

Ralph Z. and Charlotte R. Sorenson Scholarship Awards

  • Melissa Belec
  • David J. Ettenson

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Tagged Class of 2023, Graduate, Student Life

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