Management and Business student awards

At Skidmore, management and business students stand out for how they think and what they do. These awards recognize leadership, creativity, and results in the classroom and beyond.

Each honor reflects students who are already making an impact and preparing for what comes next.

Awarded by the Management and Business Department to a student whose outstanding academic achievement and interest in applied management have been evident throughout their career at Skidmore.

Recipients:

  • Bodhi Smith ’26 
  • Max Heberlein ’25
  • Bernadette Berner ’24
  • Avery Geddes ’23
  • Muskaan Shrestha ’22

Formerly known as The Seymour and Sylvia Goldman Memorial Prize, established by Jay H. Tanenbaum in memory of his wife Linda G. Tanenbaum. Awarded to the outstanding senior in the Department of Management and Business.

Recipients:

  • Grace E. Lazzara ’26
  • Erin McMorris ’25
  • Minoru Liu ’24
  • Kimberly Nee ’23
  • Austin Warren Rook ’22
  • Julia Steeger ’21
  • Naira Abdula 20
  • Damian Hammond ’19
  • William Berg ’18
  • Derrick Yam ’17
  • Isaac Carp ’16
  • Ezra Levy ’15
  • Ni Fang ’14
  • Catherine Lucky Chang ’13
  • Raiza Nazareth ’12
  • Haseeb Younas ’11

Established by the family and friends of Jeff Huff ’88 and awarded to a junior or senior business student who has a distinguished academic record and has produced an outstanding project in business.

Recipients:

  • Frances O. Gallagher ’26
  • Trey Bourque ’25
  • Clea O’Neil ’24
  • Morgan Sickels ’23
  • Amelia A. Boyle ’22
  • Matthew Muzyka ’21
  • Brianna Worobel ’20
  • Maeve Foley ’19
  • Ran Tao ’18
  • Makeda Diggs ’17
  • Hannah Weaver ’16
  • Cara Vanin ’15
  • Jennifer Eiko Michelle Shonborn ’14
  • Catherine Lucky Chang ’13
  • John Douglas Morris ’12
  • Spencer Cheng ’11

Awarded to a junior or senior whose excellence in the business major has been combined with a particularly broad liberal arts program of study, and who demonstrates the humanistic concern for personal and community relationships that embodied the spirit of the liberal arts and that we associate with the memory of Gail Moran Morton ’60.

Recipients:

  • Anna Hyson ’26
  • Bailey Gerson ’25
  • Leah French ’24
  • Riley Greene ’23
  • Gabriela Isabel Gil ’22
  • Isabel Grace Tobin ’21
  • Sophia Fox ’20
  • Edvinas Rupkus ’19
  • Jack (John) Sloan ’18
  • Georgiana Ager ’17
  • Geoffrey Inaba ’16
  • Mohannad Aljawamis ’15
  • Anthony Steven Giacin ’14
  • Kelsey Emily Yam ’13
  • Aylin Riker Ceylan ’12
  • Alexis Colley Green ’11

Formerly known as The Wall Street Journal Award, awarded by the Department of Management and Business to a student whose outstanding academic achievement and interest in applied management have been evident throughout his or her academic career at Skidmore.

Recipients:

  • Xiaqing (Lily) Du ’21
  • Edward (Ted) Roach ’20
  • Cristian Fernandez ’19
  • Ekaterina Vagina ’18
  • Keldwin Taveras ’17
  • Lyssa Jackson ’16
  • Lauren Alexander ’15
  • Rebecca Paige McCourt ’14
  • Amanda Rose Hill ’13
  • Julia Sloan Robins ’12
  • Ian Taylor Ritchey ’11

Established in memory of Beulah Slocum Heck and awarded to the highest-ranking student in the Department of Management and Business.

Recipients:

  • Robyn Karchere-Sun ’26
  • Brooke Tunnicliffe ’25
  • Leah French ’24
  • Kimberly Nee ’23
  • Austin Rook ’22
  • Isabel Grace Tobin ’21
  • Naira Abdula ’20
  • Maeve Katherine Foley ’19
  • William Berg '18
  • Hannah Meehan ’17
  • Hannah Weaver ’16
  • Shuming Liu ’15
  • Anthony Giacin ’14
  • Catherine Chang ’13
  • Diego Reinero ’12
  • Corey Jarecki ’11

Contact Management and Business

Office

Palamountain 232
Phone: 518-580-5100

Department Chair

Jina Mao
Associate Professor
jmao@skidmore.edu

Associate Chair

Ting Li
Associate Professor
tli@skidmore.edu

Academic Administrative Assistant

Tania Becker
taniabecker@skidmore.edu
Palamountain 232
518-580-5454