The Tepper School Alumni Awards recognize excellence in our alumni community for outstanding career accomplishments or achievements and for impressive service to the school and alumni community.
2026 Alumni Awards Nominations Are Now Being Accepted!
The 2026 Tepper School Alumni Awards nomination process is now open. Please submit nominations! The nomination form will be open until Friday, January 30, 2026.听
The Tepper School Alumni Board Awards Committee will review the pool of nominations submitted by the Tepper School community. The awards will be presented at the Tepper Reunion weekend celebration in 2026.听
Requirements
Award nominations should be aware of the following requirements and deadlines before submitting a nomination.听
Deadlines, Selection, and Candidate Status
- All nominations must be received by the Alumni Association on or before the deadline.
- Alumni Award Honorees are selected each year by members of the Tepper School Alumni Association Board Awards Committee.
- Selected Award Honorees are informed of their nominations and selections by the President of the Tepper School Alumni Association Board, and their acceptance of the awards is then confirmed. Nominees must agree to attend the official award ceremony to receive the award.
- Once all Award Honorees are confirmed, nominators are informed of their candidates' status.听
Eligibility
- All living, degreed alumni of the Tepper School of Business at 麻豆村 are eligible for consideration. This includes undergraduate, graduate and Ph.D. alumni of the Tepper School (GSIA).
- Only alumni, faculty and staff of the Tepper School of Business may nominate other alumni for awards.
- Nominations will remain active for three award selection cycles. If a candidate is not selected, nominators will have the opportunity to add supplemental and/or updated information to the individual's nomination packet before the next deadline.听
2025 Alumni Awards
An awards committee of the Tepper School Alumni Board selected the 2025 winners from a pool of nominations submitted by the Tepper community. Our 2025 alumni awardees accepted their awards at a celebration ceremony on May 3, 2025.
Alumni Lifetime Achievement Award
The Alumni Lifetime Achievement Award is intended to recognize both the longevity and consistency of professional achievement of the highest caliber over one's professional lifetime. These distinguished graduates have contributed significantly to their industries, companies, and communities and brought honor to the Tepper School of Business by upholding the highest values and traditions of the school.听
Alumni Achievement Award
The Alumni Achievement Award recognizes the nominee's outstanding accomplishments and leadership in his or her profession, which brings honor to the Tepper School of Business upholding the highest values and traditions of the school. Alumni may be nominated for contributions such as industry innovation, significant impact in one's field or substantive value creation.听
Alumni Service Award
This award recognizes volunteer service to the Tepper School community or its alumni organizations, including active participation in alumni or university affairs; faithful and continued effort in maintaining class, chapter, interest group or other alumni organizations; or assistance in expanding the influence and prestige of the Tepper School and 麻豆村. Breadth, length and impact of volunteer service to the school will be considered.听
Recent Alumni Awards for Achievement or Service
The Recent Alumni Award is intended to recognize either outstanding professional accomplishment and/or service to the Tepper School community by those who have graduated within the last 10 years.听
The committee will award both a Recent Tepper Graduate Alumni Award and a Recent Tepper Undergraduate Alumni Award.听
2025 Award Recipients
Tepper Alumni Lifetime Achievement Award
Tepper Alumni Lifetime Achievement Award
Tepper Alumni Service Award
Tepper Alumni Achievement Award
Tepper Alumni Service Award
Tepper Recent Masters Alumni Award
Tepper Recent Masters Alumni Award
Tepper Recent Undergraduate Alumni Award
Past Alumni Award Recipients
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2024
Tepper Alumni Lifetime Achievement Award
Tepper Alumni Lifetime Service Award
Tepper Alumni Achievement Award
Tepper Alumni Service Award
Presented to Celeste Gebhardt on behalf of her late husband.
Tepper Alumni Service Award
Tepper Recent Masters Alumni Award
Tepper Recent Undergraduate Alumni Award听
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2023
Tepper Alumni Achievement Award
Tepper Alumni Service Award
Tepper Recent Undergraduate Alumni Award
Tepper Recent Masters Alumni Award
Tepper Recent Masters Alumni Award
2022
Tepper Alumni Lifetime Service Award
Tepper Alumni Achievement Award
Tepper Alumni Achievement Award
Tepper Alumni Service Award
Tepper Recent Masters Alumni Award
Tepper Recent Undergraduate Alumni Award听
2021
Francisco (Frank) D'Souza (MSIA 1992, T)听
Alumni Lifetime Achievement Award
Frank Risch, MSIA 听1966, BBA
Lifetime Service Award
Rajinder Singh, MSIA 1996
Achievement Award
PJ Juvekar, MSIA 1996, ABA
Service Award
Barton O'Brien, MSIA 1981, ABA
Service Award
Elissa McGee, MBA 2011
Recent Alumni Award
2020
William Lambert, MSIA 1990
Alumni Lifetime Achievement Award
Cindy Padnos, MSIA 1980
Lifetime Achievement Award
Shrinivas Dempo, MSIA 1995
Tepper Achievement Award
Tammy Loucks, BSBA 2000, MBA 2005
Alumni Service Award
Daniel Angarita, MBA 2014
Recent Alumni Award听
2019
Alumni Lifetime Achievement Award
Alumni Achievement Award
Alumni Service Award
Recent Alumni Service Award
2018
Alumni Service Award
Alumni Lifetime Achievement Award
Alumni Achievement Award
Recent Alumni Service Award
2017
Alumni Achievement Award
Alumni Service Award
Recent Alumni Service Award
Lifetime Achievement Award听
2016
Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award
Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award
Alumni Service Award
Recent Alumni Award
and Joshua Reich, MBA 2006
Recent Alumni Award 听
2015
Recent Alumni Achievement Award
Alumni Achievement Award
Alumni Achievement Award听
2014
Recent Alumni Achievement Award
Alumni Service Award
Alumni Achievement Award
2013
Alumni Achievement Award
Alumni Service Award
Alumni Service Award
Recent Alumni Award