BigWigs & New Gigs: Awards & Recognition

Junior Achievement of Central Indiana has named Sarah Hempstead its Gold Leadership Award winner. She is chief executive officer and principal at Schmidt Associates in Indianapolis.... Read More

Trine University's Christian Campus House has named Melanie Watson the Distinguished Faculty Award winner. She is associate professor of biomedical engineering at Trine University.... Read More

The Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Alumni Association has named Mitch Landess its 2022 Career Achievement Award winner. He is vice president of innovation and digital transformation at Conexus Indiana.... Read More

The Indianapolis Public Relations Society has named Bill Benner an "Indianapolis Public Relations Legend". He is a contributor to Inside Indiana Business with Gerry Dick and two-time winner of the Indiana Sportswriter of the Year.... Read More

The Indiana Tourism Association has named Jaime Bohler Smith Member of the Year. She is executive director of Visit Hendricks County.... Read More

Rita McCluskey has been named to the 2022 Forbes “America’s Top Women Wealth Advisors – Best-in-State” list. She is a financial advisor with the McCluskey Group, a Merrill Lynch Wealth Management Company in Indianapolis.  McCluskey her career with Merrill in 1993 and holds a Certified Financial Planner certification awarded by the Certified Financial Board of Standards […]... Read More

Obiageli “Oby” Ezekwesili, an economic policy expert and social advocate who has led groundbreaking initiatives challenging extremism, corruption and gender-based violence, has been honored with the Ford Family Notre Dame Award for International Development and Solidarity.  A leader across global, national and local scales, and across the realms of economics, governance and politics, Ezekwesili will be recognized […]... Read More

Katherine Bingaman, a first-year law student at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, is the 2022 recipient of Barnes & Thornburg’s 1L Diversity Scholarship. She will be a summer associate in the South Bend office in 2022. Indiana University Maurer School of Law student Blake T. Welter is the recipient of Barnes & Thornburg’s […]... Read More

The Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology has named Binh Tran a Biomedical Engineering Program Evaluator. He is dean of the E.S. Witchger School of Engineering at Marian University.... Read More

The Geomorphology Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers has honored Jon Harbor with its Melvin G. Marcus Distinguished Career Award for 2022. He is provost of Purdue University Global.... Read More

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has named Marissa Tremblay a 2022 Sloan Research Fellow. She serves as an assistant professor/geochemist at Purdue University.... Read More

The American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy has named Marwa Noureldin as the recipient of its New Investigator Award. She is an assistant professor of pharmaceutical sciences at Manchester University's Fort Wayne campus.... Read More

The Randall L. Tobias Center for Leadership Excellence at Indiana University has chosen Laura Treanor as a Tobias Fellow. She is provost and vice president of instructional services/dean of faculty at Vincennes University.... Read More

ose-Hulman Institute of Technology mechanical engineering student Ruth Hammond has been recognized as an Apple Scholar. She is among three U.S. college students receiving the recognition.... Read More

University of Notre Dame senior Trevor Lwere has been named a Schwarzman Scholar Class of 2023 member. He is one of 151 from a pool of 3,000 applicants and is Notre Dame's first Schwarzman Scholar since the program was established in 2016. ... Read More

Working Mother Magazine/Shook Research have named Rita McCluskey a 'Top Wealth Advisor Mom'. She serves as a financial advisor with the McCluskey Group in Indianapolis. ... Read More

The Indiana Farm Bureau’s 2021 Frederick L. Hovde Award of Excellence in Educational Service to the people of Indiana by a Purdue staff member has been awarded to Karen Richey. She is an extension educator at Purdue University.... Read More

The Experiental Designers and Producers Association has named Aric Furfaro a 'Future Leader', which honors young professionals in the customer experience industry. He holds the role of senior designer at Indianapolis-based marketing firm Hamilton.... Read More

Chandan Sen has been elected as a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. He serves as director of the Indiana Center for Regenerative Medicine and Engineering at Indiana University School of Medicine and also holds the role of executive director of the Comprehensive Wound Care Center at IU Health Methodist.... Read More

Chris Jensen has been awarded the Global Statesman Award by the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition at its annual tribute celebration. ... Read More