The 2018 Foster Awards: recognizing extraordinary faculty and staff achievement

Announcing The Fosters for 2018, a collection of awards honoring the best and brightest achievements during the past academic year by faculty and staff at the University of Washington Foster School of Business.

Faculty/Staff Excellence Awards

PACCAR Award for Excellence in Teaching – Ed deHaan
Dan Siegel Award for Service – Thomas Gilbert
Charles E. Summer Memorial Teaching Award – Ed deHaan
Lex N. Gamble Family Award for Excellence in Case Development & Curriculum Innovation – Oliver Rutz, Amin Sayedi, Hema Yoganarasimhan
William A. & Helen I. Fowler Endowment for Special Achievement in Finance – Jonathan Karpoff
Pacific Coast Banking School Dean’s Leadership Awards – Jean Choy, Tracy Gojdics, Michelle Griffin, Louise Kapustka, Dan Poston
Dean’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching – Ben Hallen, Dawn Matsumoto
Dean’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching – Ran Duchin, Kira Schabram, Izzy Weber
Dean’s Award for Excellence in Faculty Research – Abhinav Gupta, Yong Tan

Graduate Programs Recognitions

Full-Time MBA Professors of the Year – Lance Young (Class of 2018), Ed deHaan (Class of 2019)
Full-Time MBA Professors of the Quarter (Autumn 2017) – Lance Young (Class of 2018), Thomas Gilbert (Class of 2019)
Full-Time MBA Professors of the Quarter (Winter 2018) – Mark Hillier (Class of 2018), Crystal Farh (Class of 2019)
Full-Time MBA Professors of the Quarter (Spring 2018) – Lance Young (Class of 2018), Masha Shunko (Class of 2019)

Evening MBA Elective Professor of the Year (Class of 2018) – Lance Young
Evening MBA Core Professor of the Year (Class of 2019) – David Sirmon
Evening MBA Core Professor of the Year (Class of 2020) – Weili Ge

Robert M. Bowen EMBA Excellence in Teaching (Regional 34) – Jonathan Karpoff, Andy Siegel
Robert M. Bowen EMBA Excellence in Teaching (North America 19) – Jonathan Karpoff, Natalie Mizik

TMMBA Excellence in Teaching (Monday Section) – Pat Bettin, David Tan, Lance Young
TMMBA Excellence in Teaching (Wednesday Section) – Pat Bettin, Debra Glassman
TMMBA Professors of the Quarter (Summer 2017) – Debra Glassman (Class 17)
TMMBA Professors of the Quarter (Autumn 2017) – Issariya Sirichakwal (Class 17), Scott Reynolds (Class 18)
TMMBA Professors of the Quarter (Winter 2018) – Pat Bettin (Class 17), Ed deHaan and Alexis Leon (Class 18)
TMMBA Professors of the Quarter (Spring 2018) – Michael Johnson (Class 17), David Tan (Class 18)

Hybrid MBA Faculty of the Quarter (Autumn 2017) – Frank Hodge
Hybrid MBA Faculty of the Quarter (Winter 2018) – Kevin Steensma
Hybrid MBA Faculty of the Quarter (Spring 2018) – Lance Young

EDP Excellence in Teaching – Pat Bettin

GEMBA Excellence in Teaching – Jonathan Karpoff, Erich Studer-Ellis

MSIS Excellence in Teaching Award – Manoj Parameswaran

MSCM Excellence in Teaching Award – Hamed Mamani, Lloyd Tanlu

MS Entre Excellence in Teaching Award – Ken Myer, Lance Young
MS Entre Faculty of the Quarter (Summer 2017) – Emily Cox Pahnke
MS Entre Faculty of the Quarter (Autumn 2017) – David Tan
MS Entre Faculty of the Quarter (Winter 2018) – Lance Young
MS Entre Faculty of the Quarter (Spring 2018) – T.A. McCann

PhD Outstanding Mentors – Peter Demerjian (Accounting), Kathy Dewenter (Finance & Business Economics), Elina Hwang (ISOM), Chris Barnes (Management & Organization), Natalie Mizik (Marketing & International Business)

Undergraduate Program Recognitions

Undergraduate Faculty and Staff of the Year:
Accounting – Izzy Weber
Finance & Business Economics – Yao Zeng
Information Systems – Manoj Parameswan
Management & Entrepreneurship – Kira Schabram
Marketing & International Business – Lea Dunn
Operations Management/Qmeth – Yong-Pin Zhou

Faculty of the Year – Abhishek Borah
New Faculty of the Year – Yingfei Wang
Staff of the Year – Andy Marzano

Staff Excellence Awards

Staff Excellence – Kieu Luong, Teresa Marks, Aaron Robertson, Amber Turner
Emerging Leader – Emily Nichols

Faculty Promotions

Kathy Dewenter – Professor of Finance
Weili Ge – Professor of Accounting
Jeff Shulman – Professor of Marketing

Ed DeHaan – Associate Professor of Accounting (with tenure)
Crystal Farh – Associate Professor of Management (with tenure)
Thomas Gilbert – Associate Professor of Finance (with tenure)
David Tan – Associate Professor of Management (with tenure)
Michael Wagner – Associate Professor of Operations Management (with tenure)

Lance Young – Principal Lecturer in Finance and Business Economics