Senior Undergraduate Awards Celebrate Excellence of Class of 2022

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Graduating seniors Tyson Corner ’22, Victoria Z. Shen ’22, and Abigail vanLuling ’22 received multiple awards during the Senior Undergraduate Awards ceremony Friday.

Corner earned three awards: the prestigious Roger W. Babson Award for excellence in scholarship, co-curricular activities, and leadership, as well as the Carroll W. Ford Scholarship Award as class valedictorian, and the Wallace P. Mors Finance Award.

Shen earned the Clinton A. Petersen Accounting Award, the Environmental Sustainability Award, and a Student Contribution Award. And, vanLuling earned the Technology, Operations Management Award and a Student Contribution Award.


Watch all the individual award presentations at babson.edu/seniorawards.


All 2022 Senior Undergraduate Awards recipients:

Student Contribution Awards

These awards are presented to seniors for their meaningful contributions to student life and the Babson community.

  • Abigail vanLuling
  • Emily Stanton
  • Victoria Z. Shen
  • Suning Wang
  • Aditya R. Agarwal
  • Andrea Lindner
  • Kaitlyn Goodwin

Creative Arts Award

Presented to a senior who has demonstrated significant contributions to the arts on campus.

  • Kyla Christie Hambali

Global Student Leadership Award

Presented to a graduating senior who has fostered a climate of understanding and respect between student groups on campus in a true example of a global student leader.

  • Khanh-Linh Ha

Arts and Humanities Award

Presented to a senior who has excelled in Arts and Humanities courses. The student must have completed four courses to be eligible.

  • Shira Berkin

Bertrand R. Canfield Marketing Award

Presented to an outstanding senior Marketing student. The student must have completed a minimum of four courses to be eligible.

  • Amanda Santorelli

The Carolyn Hotchkiss and Richard P. Mandel Law Award

Presented to the senior who has completed three or more law electives and has demonstrated academic excellence in law.

  • Grace Smith

Clinton A. Petersen Accounting Award

Presented to a senior with six or more Accounting courses who has the highest degree of knowledge in all phases of Accounting.

  • Victoria Z. Shen

Earl K. Bowen Quantitative Methods Award

Presented to a senior having the highest cumulative average in their QTM courses.

  • Akoua Orsot

Economics Achievement Award

Presented to a senior who had taken 4 or more Economics courses and had outstanding scholarship, initiative, and resourcefulness, in the field of Economics.

  • Morgan Headrick
  • Ethan Rosenthal

Environmental Sustainability Award

Presented to a senior who has excelled in courses within the Environmental Sustainability Concentration.

  • Victoria Z. Shen

History and Society Award

Presented to a senior who has excelled in History and Society courses. The student must have completed four courses to be eligible.

  • Nia Manjunath

Information Systems Award

Presented to a senior having the highest cumulative average in four or more of their MIS courses.

  • Brandon Sung

Marketing Scholars Award

Presented to an outstanding senior Marketing student. This award recognizes exceptional performance and achievement in the Marketing discipline.

  • James Truslow

Newton Natural Sciences & Technology Award

Presented to a senior who has the highest cumulative average in Science electives.

  • Ellen McGrath

Outstanding Student in Entrepreneurial Studies Award

Presented to a senior based on overall achievements in academic, entrepreneurial, and extracurricular pursuits which best exemplify a creative and enterprising spirit and high personal standards of integrity.

  • Leyla Unat

Rudolph A. Johnson Management Award

Presented to a graduating senior who will have taken at least seven courses in management and attains the highest cumulative average in at least six courses in that discipline.

  • Alexia Ritter

Technology, Operations Management Award

Presented to a senior who has one of the top cumulative average in their Operations and Information Management (OIM) courses (3 or more). This award is based on the number of OIM courses taken, the OIM GPA and overall OIM faculty evaluations.

  • Abigail vanLuling

The Wall Street Journal Finance Award

Presented to a senior who will have taken at least four or more Finance courses and has completed the most distinguished academic record in the field of Finance.

  • Corey O’Neill

Wallace P. Mors Finance Award

Presented to a senior for outstanding performance in Finance and division activities.

  • Tyson Corner

Student Athlete of the Class

Presented to the senior student-athlete with the highest GPA in the graduating class.

  • Amanda Karch

Michael J. Conlon Spirit Award

Presented to a graduating senior who best demonstrates some of the qualities which Michael embodied: leadership, integrity, loyalty, academic excellence, and, most importantly, a willingness to find the time to care for and support others.

  • Tyler DeGeorge

George Macy Wheeler Award

Presented to a graduating senior who best exemplifies the qualities of naturalness, friendliness, sincerity, persistence and loyalty.

  • Shalom Mensah

Carroll W. Ford Scholarship Award (Valedictorian)

Presented to the graduating senior who has the highest GPA in the class.

  • Tyson Corner

Roger W. Babson Award

This award is presented to the graduating senior who has excelled in scholarship, co-curricular activities and leadership.

  • Tyson Corner

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