Awards and Accolades - April to June 2024

Faculty Excellence

Dr. Trish Reay has been reappointed as the Telus Chair in Management for a 5-year period, beginning July 1, 2024.

Dr. Armann Ingolfsson has been appointed as the Winspear Chair of Accounting and Business Analytics for a 7-year period, beginning July 1, 2024. Congratulations to both of these deserving scholars!

Former interim Dean Kyle Murray embarks on an exciting new chapter as the Dean of the Lazaridis School of Business & Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University. We want to thank Kyle for his dedication and his contributions to the Alberta School of Business.

Student Success

Congratulations to Kate Yaroslavtseva, Tessa Woltersdorf, David Sunderwald, and Jack MacPherson for representing the Alberta School of Business at the 2024 University of Navarra International Case Competition in Pamplona, Spain. 

Big congratulations to Bari Mohammed for receiving the 2024 MBA Outstanding Student Contribution Award! 

Rittik Chowdhury, Eric Shen, Kiran Dhillon, Omer Syed, Emaad Hussain, Bijan Somji, Ananya Nandiraju, Rahul Narayan, Deana Hryniw, Ayman Arman and Anna Sun represented the Alberta School of Business, with the help of their faculty Advisor Peter Keith, at the Enactus Canada National Exposition 2024 in Toronto, ON. Congratulations!

Alumni Achievements

Samantha Gardner and Kendrea Sicotte ('23 BComs) — along with a student in Msc in Health Promotion (Rehma Khan) — won first place out of over 30 teams in the Technation Innovation Challenge in March, hosted by NorQuest. They received $20,000 to develop their prototype with the help of mentors in Edmonton/Alberta. Congratulations!

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