Awards
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Making a Positive Impact: Laura Cutler Awarded AIS Faculty Advisor of the Year
Assistant Teaching Professor Laura Cutler received the 2025 AIS Faculty Advisor of the Year Award. Information systems students from the BYU Marriott School of Business share her positive impact in the program.
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BYU Marriott Professors Receive Awards at BYU’s 2025 University Conference
Four professors from the BYU Marriott School of Business received awards at BYU’s 2025 University Conference. John Bingham, Michael Drake, Melissa Larson, and David Wood received awards in recognition of their contributions to BYU.
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MPA Students Awarded for Essays on Impact and Ethics
Rahel Meyer and David Alder received the Dr. Garth N. Jones Writing Award in recognition of essays that demonstrated meaningful impact in public administration.
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MBA Students Received 2025 Hawes Scholars Awards
The award, which includes a $10,000 cash prize, is one of the highest distinctions given to graduating MBA students at BYU Marriott.
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MBA Students Named Gary P. Williams Leadership Scholars
The 2025 Gary P. Williams Leadership Award recognizes distinguished students who have been nominated by their peers for demonstrating extraordinary leadership that embodies the values of BYU Marriott.
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2025 MBA Stoddard Scholars Recognized for Excellence in Finance
Eleven MBA students at the BYU Marriott School of Business received the 2025 George E. Stoddard Prize. These students are committed to pursuing a career in finance and have displayed leadership and academic excellence.
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BYU Marriott Honors Faculty and Staff for Leadership and Service
In April 2025, the BYU Marriott School of Business recognized selected faculty, staff, and administrators for exemplifying the college’s vision, mission, values, and guiding principle in both classroom and administrative work.
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Enter to Learn, Go Forth to Serve: The 2025 Bateman Awards
In March, one student from each undergraduate program received the Bateman Award for their exemplary dedication to the BYU Marriott values, commitment to academic excellence, and profound drive to serve others.
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2024 ROTC Presidential Review
On November 7, 2024, Steven J. Lund, the young men general president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, received the 2024 Patriot Award in recognition of his dedication to the values of faith, leadership, and patriotism.
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Transact to Transform
Jay Meldrum, a principal at PwC and the recipient of the BYU Marriott School of Business 2024 Alumni Achievement Award, recently spoke to students about the power of transactions that transform—in both business and everyday life.
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BYU Marriott Names John Pence as the 2024 International Executive of the Year
In a lecture hall packed with prospective and current business students, Sunrise Technologies Founder and President John Pence shared how saying yes early in his career eventually led him to start and run his own company.
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SOA Alumni Win Elijah Watt Sells Award for Exceptional Performance on CPA Exam
Last year’s CPA exam results were recently published, and BYU Marriott accounting graduates Elise Chase and Parker Jackson were on the list of award winners, continuing the SOA’s 16-year streak of alums who earned the award.
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From Wall Street to Nonprofit CEO: Jonathan Reckford Named 2024 Administrator of the Year
Recipient of the 2024 Administrator of the Year Award from the Romney Institute of Public Service and Ethics, Jonathan Reckford took an unconventional journey to working in public service and becoming CEO of Habitat for Humanity International.
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MBA Students Receive 2024 Hawes Scholars Awards
Eight MBA students within the BYU Marriott School of Business received the 2024 Hawes Scholars Award—an honor that carries the highest distinction given to BYU Marriott MBA students, and it includes a cash award of $10,000.
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2024 Stoddard Prizes Presented to MBA Students
The MBA program at the BYU Marriott School of Business announced the winners of the 2024 George E. Stoddard Prize, an award given to second-year MBA students studying finance who display leadership and academic excellence.
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2024 Williams Leadership Scholars Awards Presented to MBA Students
Six MBA students at BYU Marriott received the 2024 Williams Leadership Scholar Award for their demonstration of extraordinary leadership that embodies the values of BYU Marriott.
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Whitmore Global Business Center Names 2024 Eccles Scholars
The Whitmore Global Business Center at the BYU Marriott School of Business named 11 first-year BYU Marriott MBA students as 2024 Eccles Scholars. The Eccles Scholars Award offers financial support to MBA students who are interested in and committed to international business.
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