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UTS Business School recognises the outstanding achievements of our top students and staff each year.

Prizes and scholarships are awarded each year to recognise the outstanding achievements of our top students and teaching staff for meritorious work and are made available through the generosity of individuals and public and private organisations.

Dean’s Merit List recipients are recognised as our highest performing students across our many undergraduate and postgraduate programs.

Every recipient below should be tremendously proud of their achievements. Congratulations to the prize, scholarship and merit list recipients, and thank you to our donors and partners for their continued support of the pursuit of academic excellence amongst our students.

Don Koch and Jennifer Francis Award Presentation - Semara Jose 2019

Awards Night photos

Please feel free to view and download photos from the UTS Business School Prize Night 2019 (Flickr), and the Dean's Merit Awards Night 2019 (Flickr). 

Prizes and scholarships

Undergraduate prizes and scholarships

Business Dean’s Scholarship
Jordan Meyers

UTS Humanitarian Scholarship
Elizabeth Abaaho
Golsa Yosefnejad Khabaz

UTS Business School Honours Scholarship
Michael Bleasdale
Guang Yao Huang
Nicholas Ruff
Bridget Tyma

Koch & Frances Inclusion and Diversity Scholarship
Semara Jose

Accounting for Good Top First Year Prize for Bachelor of Business Administration
Kerry Rauchle

Accounting Honours Scholarship
Sebastian Onie
Sameera Rasool
Bridget Tyma
Yu Xue

CPA Australia Prize – Top First Year Student
Sophia Tonoli
Kaitlin Labrie (2017)

CPA Australia Prize – Top Second Year Student
Yan Chen

CPA Australia Prize – Best Graduating Student
Alexandra Motbey

UTS Insearch International Student Prize in Accounting
Jyoti Dhakal

William Buck NSW Financial Statement Analysis (Capstone) Prize
Katherine Silvers

UTS Business School Economics Prize
Bartosz Dzubinski

UTS Economics Discipline Group Honours Scholarship
Sally Evans

UTS Business School Economics Honours Prize
Utkarsh Somaiya

Michael McGrath Prize for Economics, Finance and Humanity
Max Wileman

Australian Ethical Investment, Ethics in Finance Prize – Autumn
Sareeta Shah

Australian Ethical Investment, Ethics in Finance Prize – Spring
Lachlan Fursman

Australian Ethical Investment, Ethics in Finance Prize – Summer 2018
Renata Cvetkovska

Australian Ethical Investment, Ethics in Finance Prize – Summer 2017
Praneet Namakal

The Plato Investment Management Scholarship for Women in Finance
Anita Ren

Refinitiv Finance Honours Scholarship
Adam Leroux
Bryan Soepardi

UTS Insearch International Student Prize in Business
Trang Nguyen

UTS Insearch International Student Prize in International Business
Nasya Hartono

Industrial Relations Society of NSW Prize for Excellence in Industrial Relations Undergraduate Study
Rosie Dawson

Peter and Sharon Ivany Academic Achievement Scholarship
Leo Tilley

Peter and Sharon Ivany Access Scholarship
Casey McCarthy

Sydney Swans Prize in Sport Management
Amy Petrolo

UTS Business School Marketing Prize
Oscar Macdonald

Marketing Discipline Group Prize for Best Woman Graduate with a Marketing Specialisation
Yin Yin Phyo

Postgraduate prizes and scholarships

Dean’s EMBA Award
Luke Purcell

MBA Scholarship for Outstanding Students – Spring 2018
Ayesha Shahi (commencing)
John Dawson (current)
Sheekha Vijayanti (current)
Shrutiben Shridhar Iyer (current)

MBA Scholarship for Outstanding Students – Autumn 2019
Magnus Wu (commencing)
Sanaya Sawkar (current)
Sumith Shashindran (current)
Paige Thompson (current)

Postgraduate Business Alumni Scholarship
Edmund Li

Zonta Club of Sydney Prize for the Woman MBA Graduate of the Year
Vanessa Sore

SAP Australian User Group Prize
Pukar Shrestha

Mark Lyons Not-For-Profit and Social Enterprise Management Scholarship
Sally Beesley

Marketing Discipline Group Prize for Academic Excellence in Marketing Management
Avani Nagda

Postgraduate research scholarships

ARC Discovery Scholarship
Jonathan Livermore

Australian Government Research Training Program Stipend
David Bickett
Melanie Lewis
Mauricio Ortiz
Helen Taylor
Nusrat Jusy Umme
Lewis Whales

UTS Business School Top Up Scholarship
Rafael de Feria Cardet

UTS President’s Scholarship
Hina Mehreen
Rafael de Feria Cardet

Ross Milbourne Research Scholarship in Economics
Sin Hung Yu

UTS Business Doctoral Scholarship
Xikai Chen
Christopher Walker
Juan Zurita

UTS Doctoral Scholarship
Monika Axiak
Thi Ngoc Ha Bui
Ekaterina Napolova

UTS Research Excellence Scholarship
Justin Hitchen
Margaret Malone
Raechel Wight

International Research Scholarship
Cao Hoang Anh Le
Xikai Chen
Rafael de Feria Cardet
Hina Mehreen
Sin Hung Yu
Juan Zurita

Teaching prizes

Undergraduate Business Prize for Excellence in Teaching Autumn 2018
Atieh Fallahi (Tutorial 30+ students)
Dr Anurag Hingorani (40–100 students)
Dr Gerhard Hambusch (101–200 students)
Dr Anna Loyeung (201+ students)

Postgraduate Business Prize for Excellence in Teaching Autumn 2018
Dr Anna Loyeung

Undergraduate Business Prize for Excellence in Teaching Spring 2018
Jacqueline Williamson (Tutorial 30+ students)
Dr Benjamin Farr-Wharton (40–100 students)
Dr Vinay Patel (101–200 students)
Dr Amanda White (201+ students)

Postgraduate Business Prize for Excellence in Teaching Spring 2018
Dr Martijn Boersma

Venture Day 2019

Kazacos Prize in Entrepreneurship for Best Social Venture
Thomas Boneham

Commonwealth Bank UTS Venture Day Prize
Nicolas Pulecio

UTS Business School Dean’s Award – For-Profit Venture
Ian Ritchie

UTS Business School Dean’s Award – Social Venture
Mark Radic

AiQual Technologies Prize
Mark Radic

Paul Thorley Prize
Manish Kumar

Rod Bertram Memorial Prize
Jared Stoloff

BDO East Coast Partnership Prize
Manish Kumar

Gilbert & Tobin UTS Venture Day Prize
Kristyn Wuebbolt

Dean’s Merit List

Undergraduate Dean’s Merit List

First year

Jesse Ambara 
Henry Bioley-Delacoste 
Daniella Boustani
Felix Bowes 
Jared Da Silva 
Joseph Drew 
Annabelle Druce 
Brittany Evans 
Mia Fragiacomo 
Cameron Fusco 
Van Thai Lam 
Britney Lee Sun
Annie Ly
Laura Mooney 
Chloe Morrisby 
Jasmine Neal
Mai Nguyen 
Diego Pulido 
Kerry Rauchle 
Stephanie Ryan 
Thomas Spence
Jessica Tan
Kain Thompson
Vuk Trazivuk 
Matthew Varrica 
Sarasvathy Widjaya 
Aileen Yue 

Second year

Benjamin Adams
Joanne Antoun 
Mark Bourke 
Ryan Burger
Saabiq Chowdhury 
Alexander Cicchitelli 
Elyse Diamond
Isabelle Gullotta 
Candice Jackson 
Luke Jaggers 
Jacob Jordison 
Joshua Keegan
Talia La Delfa 
Bobby Lau 
Han Jun Lee
Buu Tran Ly
Oscar Macdonald 
Zara McTaggart 
Matthew Mulligan 
Christie Nassif 
Thuy Van (Jenny) Ngo 
Minh Nguyen 
Elizabeth Orlando 
Ayesha Rahman 
Juliette Schimschal 
Harry Strudwick 
Sofia Sudar 
Alina Ta 
Helena Tran 
Anna Tran 
Isabella Vick 
Max Wileman 
Hamish Wilson 
Rachel Yamamoto 
Catherine Yao 
Nicole Zeaiter 

Third year

Melissa Allcroft 
Emma Bell 
Hayley Bellchambers 
Alex Bradford 
John Breckenridge 
Ming Chen 
Yan Chen 
Lara Giles 
Jason Gilmore 
Brittany Gregson 
Melanie Hewett 
Thomas Hill 
Kimberley Hodge 
Nicholas Hodge 
Kieran Holden 
Eda Huang 
Mitchell Hubble 
Sachin Kapoor 
Ben Kinchington 
Kaitlin Labrie 
Timothy Lao 
Jenixon Lim 
Katherine Lin 
Manik Mahajan 
Christine Meagher 
Kate Meagher 
Kathryn Middleton 
Kate Moran 
Alexandra Motbey 
Naing Phyo Linn 
Sophie Newton 
Trang Ngyuen 
Valerie Nguyen 
Philippa Nolan 
Clare O’Rourke 
Zoe Pandousis 
Samantha Pratt 
Matthew Renard 
Max Riley 
David Robertson 
Ashish Sanjel 
James Seaman 
Bryan Soepardi 
Paree Symeou 
Reynard Tan 
Vanessa Tan 
Thanh Tran 
Guus Vreeburg 
Jiaqi Wang 
Tim Wang 
Abbey Williams 
Alexander Younes 

Postgraduate Dean’s Merit List

Graduated Spring 2018

Katherine Berg 
Alexander Brenner 
Gabrielle Burke 
Wai Chun Chen 
Timothy Cochran 
Rahil Dhody 
Thordis Ivarsdottir 
Henning Kramer 
Gemma McKenzie-Booth 
Adam Newman  
Luke Purcell 
Chenub Rawat 
Elizabeth Saady 
Helen Travers 
Zhipeng Zeng 

Graduated Autumn 2019

Sulaiman Alluhaidan 
Chiara Bazzini 
Allyson Brown 
Geoff Bullen 
Priyanka Chadha 
Ryan Evans 
Virgina He 
Selena Hooper 
Lingyu Huang 
Molly Lloyde 
Philip Meyer 
Gillian Odbert
Pukar Shrestha 
Vrunda Tambe

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation and the Boorooberongal People of the Dharug Nation upon whose ancestral lands our campuses now stand. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands. 

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