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Awards

• Open/Close Alumni Awards

  Friends of the college gather each autumn at the Fisher Alumni Awards to celebrate distinguished alumni for special achievement in business, career accomplishments and community contributions.

• Open/Close Coykendale Staff Awards

  The Coykendale Rising Star Award and Coykendale Service Excellence Award are presented annually to two Fisher College of Business staff members who exhibit excellence in their work and have integrated one or more of the core values of the college into their exemplary daily performance. The awards are named after Cindy Coykendale, who provided more than 35 years of dedicated service to the college.

• Open/Close Cullman Executive Award

  Named in honor of the late Dr. W. Arthur Cullman, a respected scholar at Fisher and nationally recognized marketing expert, Cullman Executive Award Winners are honored for their promotion of business excellence through education.

• Open/Close Diversity Business Awards

  To recognize those in the corporate community who work to achieve diversity goals, particularly at the college, the Fisher College Educational and Professional Diversity Committee bestows the Fisher College of Business Diversity Business Awards.

• Open/Close Fisher Prize

  Les and Abigail Wexner created the Fisher Council on Global Trade and Technology in 1998 to honor the lifelong achievements of both the event's keynote speaker and college namesake Max M. Fisher.

  The Fisher Prize has been awarded to world leaders as well as thought leaders who have dedicated themselves to tackling the world's biggest problems.

• Open/Close Pace Setters Awards

  The Pace Setters Awards is Fisher's highest honor, given to students selected on the basis of academic performance and demonstrated leadership ability. Nominated and voted on by faculty, staff, and peers, these undergraduates and graduate students receive certificates, pins and scholarships at the spring ceremony.

• Open/Close Rosenfield Family Prize

  The Rosenfield Family Prize for Excellence in Security Analysis is awarded each quarter to a graduate or undergraduate student at The Ohio State University who develops the best security analysis report on a company each quarter. The prize targets students in the Student Investment Management (SIM) program.

• Open/Close Teaching Awards

  Fisher applauds the extraordinary accomplishments of its faculty in both graduate and undergraduate programs through a variety of teaching awards:

  • Executive MBA Teaching Awards
  • Master of Accounting Teaching Awards
  • Marketing and Logistics Teaching Awards
  • MBA Teaching Awards
  • Master of Human Resource Management Teaching Awards
  • Pace Setters Teaching Awards
  • Undergraduate Teaching Awards
• Open/Close Staff Awards

  Fisher recognizes the invaluable contribution of its staff members to the success of the college. Staff members are honored for leadership, years of service and going "above and beyond" their formal job responsibilities.

• Open/Close University Awards

  ACADEMY OF TEACHING
  Recipients of The Ohio State University Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching and Provost’s Award for Teaching by a Lecturer.

  2015 – Lawrence Inks
  2013 – Mark Ankerman
  2013 – Anthony Rucci
  2010 – James Dial
  2006 – Anil Makhija
  2001 – Neelima Bendapudi
  1977 – William Berry
  1976 – Leroy Krajewski
  1969 – David Cole

  DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR AWARD
  The Ohio State University’s Distinguished Scholar Award recognizes exceptional scholarly accomplishments by senior professors who have compiled a substantial body of research.

  2016 – René Stulz

  DISTINGUISHED STAFF AWARD – (1984-2016)
  The Distinguished Staff Award annually honors individuals for their outstanding achievements, service, leadership and dedication to The Ohio State University. The Distinguished Staff Award is the highest honor bestowed upon staff at the university since its inception in 1984.

  2016 – Melinda McDonald
  2015 – Laurie Spadaro
  2006 – Donna Hobart
  2003 – Cheryl W. Ryan
  2001 – David E. Harrison
  2000 – Judith T. Newhouse
  1999 – Nancy A. Osborne
  1996 – Margaret M. Bogenschutz
  1995 – Nila J. Whitfield
  1990 – Judith Reese