National & International Awards
March 6, 2019

INTERNATIONAL AWARDS
Outstanding Emerging Entrepreneurship Center Award
APEX CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURS has won the Outstanding Emerging Entrepreneurship Center Award given by the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers. The Apex Center, housed in the Pamplin College of Business, highlighted the interdisciplinary nature of its programs, which drew more than 1,900 students from eight colleges over the past year.

Stafford Beer Medal
PAUL BENJAMIN LOWRY, the Suzanne Parker Thornhill Professor, and his co-authors have received the 2018 Operational Research Society’s Stafford Beer Medal for their journal article on organizational privacy. The medal recognizes an outstanding contribution to the philosophy, theory, or practice of information systems published in the European Journal of Information Systems that year

NATIONAL AWARDS
STR Student Market Study Competition
A TEAM OF FOUR SENIORS from the Howard Feiertag Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management — (from left) Sean Koval, Bethany Ferraro, Austin Soule, and Lane Forney — won the 2018 STR Student Market Study Competition at the BDNY hospitality trade fair. At far right is STR vice president Duane Vinson.