Class of 2025 Honored at Graduate Awards Ceremony

Listen

Three members of the Babson College graduate Class of 2025 earned multiple recognitions during the Graduate Awards ceremony.  

Anahi Amado Boesch MBA’25 received the Award for Academic Excellence for the highest GPA in the Blended Learning MBA Program, as well as the Accounting Division Award.

Gregory Alan Van Aken MBA’25 received the Lewis W. Mustard Award for the highest GPA in the Two-Year MBA Program, as well as the Entrepreneurship Division Award, which also was presented to Patricia Pytlik ’11, MBA’25.

Vitor Vannucchi Ungari MBA’25 received a Dean’s Leadership Award, as well as Ralph Z. and Charlotte R. Sorenson Scholarship Award, which also was presented to Nithesh Wazenn MBA’25.

Brigitte Muehlmann, professor in the Accounting and Law Division, was named the Thomas Kennedy Professor of the Year. Hear Muehlmann on a recent episode of Babson’s podcast, “From Problems to Possibilities: Entrepreneurial Leadership in Action.”

Here are all 2025 Graduate Awards recipients: 

Abdul Ali Award — MSBA Program Highest GPA 

  •  Richard Legler MSBA’25

Award for Academic Excellence — MSF Program Highest GPA  

  • Fatema Rani Presswala MSF’25

Award for Academic Excellence — MSEL Program Highest GPA 

  • Morgane Carla Maras MSEL’25

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

  • Luke Tam MBA’25

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

  • Gregory Alan Van Aken MBA’25

Award for Academic Excellence — Blended-Learning MBA Program Highest GPA  

  • Anahi Amado Boesch MBA’25

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

  • Christina Cokely MBA’25

Accounting Division Award 

  • Anahi Amado Boesch MBA’25

Roger W. Babson Award 

  • Rusudan Samunashvili MBA’25

Charley Osborn Management Information Systems Division Award 

  • Pooja Mehta MBA’25

Dean’s Leadership Award 

  • Maria Artigas
  • Camila Cortés López
  • Alejandro Garcia-Urencio
  • Shrey Gupta
  • Amanda Marie Irvine
  • Venkata Yashwanth Kannamgari
  • Aymbre Alexandria Paige
  • Manasi N. Pawar
  • Uday Sai Savitha
  • Vitor Vannucchi Ungari

Economics Award

  • Athanasia Tsola MBA’25

Entrepreneurship Division Award 

  • Patricia Pytlik ’11, MBA’25
  • Gregory Van Aken MBA’25

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

  • Augustine Obinna Eziefule MBA’25

Finance Division Award MBA 

  • Stephen Connelly MBA’25

Finance Division Award MSF 

  • Nikolaos Kritsikis MSF’25
  • Duncan Robert Sutherland MSF’25

Global Student Leadership Award 

  • Arshdeep Singh Ghuman MBA’25

Graduate Student Alumni and Friends Award

  • Iliana Aguilar MBA’25

Management Division Award 

  • Megan Ruth Meany MBA’25

Marketing Division Award 

  • Michael Anthony Paladino MBA’25

John Shank Award 

  • Yi Wen MBA’25

Ralph Z. and Charlotte R. Sorenson Scholarship Award 

  • Vitor Vannucchi Ungari MBA’25
  • Nithesh Wazenn MBA’25

Posted in Babson Briefs

More from Babson Briefs »

Latest Stories

Public safety dog surrounded by students.
It’s All in the Name: Hero the Dog Brings Safety and Smiles to Babson Trained by the state police, Babson’s newest Public Safety dog comes with unique skills to boost campus safety and community engagement.
By
Hillary Chabot
Writer
Hillary Chabot
Hillary Chabot is a writer for Babson Thought & Action and Babson Magazine. An award-winning journalist, she is known for her insightful reporting and dedication to detailed storytelling. With a career spanning over two decades, she has covered a wide range of topics, from presidential campaigns and government policy to neighborhood issues and investigative series. As a reporter for The Boston Herald, Hillary earned a reputation for tenacity and integrity. Her work at Babson College fuels her passions—to learn something new every day and conduct thoughtful, empathic interviews. She’s thrilled to be at Babson College, where students, faculty, staff members and classes provide compelling copy daily.
June 12, 2025

Posted in Community

Runners pose for a photo on a rainy day at Babson
The 10K for Babson: A Rainy Run and a New Fundraising Record  Those running and walking in the 10K for Babson faced soggy conditions, but the annual event raised the most money in its history for the Melissa Shaak Student Emergency Fund.
By
John Crawford
Senior Journalist
John Crawford
A writer for Babson Thought & Action and the Babson Magazine, John Crawford has been telling the College’s entrepreneurial story for more than 15 years. Assignments for Babson have taken him from Rwanda to El Salvador, from the sweet-smelling factory of a Pennsylvania candy maker, to the stately Atlanta headquarters of an NFL owner, to the bustling office of a New York City fashion designer. Beyond his work for Babson, he has written articles and essays for The Philadelphia Inquirer, Notre Dame Magazine, The Good Men Project, and other publications. He can be found on Twitter, @crawfordwriter, where he tweets about climate change.
June 11, 2025

Posted in Community

Olivia Soffer and Matia Cristiani high-five on a tennis court
Take Two: Babson Tennis Champions Reflect on Winning Back-to-Back Titles Tennis champions Olivia Soffer ’25 and Matia Cristiani ’26 look back on their years playing together and all the hard work that went into winning two national doubles titles.
By
John Crawford
Senior Journalist
John Crawford
A writer for Babson Thought & Action and the Babson Magazine, John Crawford has been telling the College’s entrepreneurial story for more than 15 years. Assignments for Babson have taken him from Rwanda to El Salvador, from the sweet-smelling factory of a Pennsylvania candy maker, to the stately Atlanta headquarters of an NFL owner, to the bustling office of a New York City fashion designer. Beyond his work for Babson, he has written articles and essays for The Philadelphia Inquirer, Notre Dame Magazine, The Good Men Project, and other publications. He can be found on Twitter, @crawfordwriter, where he tweets about climate change.
June 9, 2025

Posted in Community