Student Awards and Honors
The Information Systems Program has many talented and high-achieving individuals who have been recognized over the years for their quality work and commitment. Here are just some of the Program’s award winners since I.S. was established as a separate academic Program in the 1999-2000 academic year.
Phi Beta Kappa
The Phi Beta Kappa Society is the nation's oldest and most respected undergraduate honors organizations. Since 1776, members have been elected and given their "gold key" on the basis of their excellence in scholarship, breadth of intellectual interests, leadership, service, and integrity of character.
2011 Courtney Harano, Yiwen Jia
2010 Ryan Handerhan
2009 Bradley Hess, Daniel E. Schultz
2008 Namek T. Z’ubi
2007 Jacob Portnoff, Michael Szczerban
2006 Brian M. Gray
2005 Michael L. Gelman, Timothy J. Renshaw
2004 Paul F. Shatlock, Nicole F. Velez, Plato Wai
2003 Saied Hedayati, Aashish Patel
2002 Aseem Gupta, Ish Harshawat
2001 Seth Mandel, Peter Patterson
2000 Ingrid Aizicovici, Tara Dwivedi, William Marantz
1999 Joshua Feira
Andrew Carnegie Society Scholars
The University selects 30 to 40 seniors for this distinction each year. These students are chosen for academic excellence combined with multi-dimensional characteristics such as volunteerism, involvement in student organizations, participation in sports or the arts, and leadership.
2010-2011 Courtney Harano
2009 - 2010 Ryan Handerhan
2008 - 2009 Bradley Hess, Daniel E. Schultz
2007 - 2008 Namek T. Z’ubi
2006 - 2007 Michael Szczerban
2005 - 2006 Stephanie Lo
2003 - 2004 Nicole F. Velez, Plato Wai
2002 - 2003 Saied Hedayati
2001 -2002 Aseem Gupta
Alpha Iota Delta
Alpha Iota Delta is the international honor society in the fields of information systems and decision sciences. Students are chosen from the top ten percent of their class on the basis of academic merit, campus citizenship, and personal leadership.
2010-2011
Ryan John Buckheit, Courtney Kim Harano, Leah Christine Hayes, Yiwen Jia, Sean S. Kim, Preethi Raju, Brian Wang
2009-2010
Aya Chaoka, Thomas Flavin, Ryan Handerhan, Noah Levin, Amritha Prasad, Lauren Taglieri
2008-2009
Bradley Hess, Jonathan Ma, Colin Marks, Molly McElrath, Robert Muth, Daniel Schultz, Hamza Taha
2007-08
Lauren Balderston, Devin Blais, Daniel Broekman, Ryan Keane, Justin Lachesky, Shouzhou Lisa Shi, Namek Zu'Bi
The Bipin Ratnakar Mujumdar Memorial Award
This award is given to the top graduating I.S. senior each year, and is given by Dr. and Mrs. Ratnakar B. Mujumdar in memory of their son, Bipin, who was an Information Systems student here at Carnegie Mellon.
2011 Courtney Harano
2010 Ryan Handerhan
2009 Daniel E. Schultz
2008 Namek T. Z’ubi
2007 Michael Szczerban
2006 Brian M. Gray
2005 Michael L. Gelman
2004 Nicole F. Velez, Paul F. Shatlock
2003 Michael D. Jura
2002 Brett R. Gordon
2001 Tara Dwivedi
2000 Joshua P. Feira
1999 Daniel M. Greene
