Class of 2025 Honored at Graduate Awards Ceremony

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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

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