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Leeds 2025 Award Winners

Commencement 2025 showing caps with Buffs 2025 and a "Be Yourself" message

Photo credit: Glenn J. Asakawa, University of Colorado

Join the Leeds community in recognizing these student and faculty award winners for their outstanding achievements!

Undergraduate Award Winners

Academic Excellence Award: Sloan Hurley

Academic Achievement Award: Breier Jorgensen

Finance Division Outstanding Student Award: Kelly Bondurant

Marketing Division Outstanding Student Award: Kierstin Engelbart

Accounting Division Outstanding Student Award: Yana Pekelkis

Social Responsibility and Sustainability Division Outstanding Student Award: Sloan Hurley

Undergraduate Impact Award: Michelle Om

Henny Reinhardtsen Organizational Leadership and Information Analytics Division Outstanding Student Award: Renner Skidmore

Henny Reinhardtsen Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Operations Division Outstanding Student Award: Breier Jorgensen

Graduate Award Winners

MS Accounting Outstanding Student: Maxwell Herbert Buchalski

Colorado Society of CPAs Gold Key Award: Doha Mohamed Shahba

MS Taxation Outstanding Student: Jordan Capri Blechar

MS Business Analytics Outstanding Student: Jules Geneser

MS Finance Outstanding Student: Jaxson Fryer

MS Supply Chain Management Outstanding Student: Sai Michael Xiong

Tom Thibodeau Academic Achievement Award: 

  • Master of Business Administration: Brett Kalpakjian
  • Master of Science in Real Estate: Cole Barnard

Kathleen S. Dolan Outstanding MBA Graduate Award: Katie O’Connor

Evening MBA Student Excellence Award: Breanna Real

Hybrid MBA Student Excellence Award: Conor Thomas Frantzen

Outstanding MBA Marketing Student Award:

  • Deepali Agarwal
  • Madeline Nicole Kasic
  • Revaz Khetaguri
  • Alden Zeff

Outstanding MBA Finance Student Award: Natasha Smith

MS Academic Excellence: Evan Jewett

MBA Academic Excellence: Gerardo Hughes

Faculty Award Winners

Joseph L. Frascona Teaching Excellence Award | Finalists

  • David Gross, Teaching Professor and Associate Chair, Finance
  • Erin Lionberger, Assistant Teaching Professor, Professional Effectiveness
  • Levente Szentkirályi, Assistant Teaching Professor, Social Responsibility and Sustainability

David B. Balkin and Rosalind and Chester Barnow Innovative Teaching Award: Matthew Brady, Assistant Teaching Professor, Organizational Leadership & Information Analytics

MBA Teaching Excellence Awards

  • Core Course: Henry Laurion, Assistant Professor, Accounting
  • Elective Course: Ramiro Montealegre, Professor, Organizational Leadership & Information Analytics

Master of Business Analytics Faculty Award: Thomas Vossen, Associate Professor

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