Mendoza School of Business

Accountancy Awards


The Accountancy Chairman’s Award

Presented to an Accountancy senior for outstanding service to the Department of Accountancy.

YearRecipient(s)
2023Crystal Lin
2022Mikala Izzo
2021Tiffany Pages-Sanchez
2020Hwa Young Oh
2019Patrick Fine
2018Amanda Janouch

The William G. Barth Award

Presented to an Accountancy senior for superior service to the College, University and/or community.

YearRecipient(s)
2021Dana Plagenz
2019Maria Heiman
2018Kiera Bader

The Wittenbach & Milani Award

Previously the James Dincolo Award

Presented to the students in the Department of Accountancy for outstanding service to the department, programs, and community.

YearRecipient(s)
2023N/A
2022Elaine Carter, Nora O'Connor, Isabel Joseph
2021Matthew Uhlenbrock, Emily Smith, Hannah Schwartz
2020Ryan Cunningham, Alban Dulaj, Samuel Jones
2019Matthew Lupo, Luke Morley, Corey Santoni
2018Yuxin Han, Valerie Jose, Ruochen Feng, Genevieve Johanni

The Hamilton Award for Accountancy

Presented to the Accountancy senior with the highest overall cumulative grade point average. Founded by Robert L. Hamilton, University of Notre Dame class of 1934.

YearRecipient(s)
2023Kristen Cirone
2022Kalie Peterson
2021Katherine Alme
2020Erin Siebert
2019Camila Saravia
2018Edward Kreienberg

The Peter Brady Award

Presented to an Accountancy senior with outstanding academic performance and one of the highest grade point averages. Established in honor of past faculty member Peter Brady.

YearRecipient(s)
2023Mitchell Johnson, John Ferguson
2022Meghan Bolinger
2021Mark Moran
2020Troy Veritzan
2019Dominick Battaglia
2018Siying Yang

The Tara K. Deutsch Award

Presented to a senior in the Department of Accountancy for exemplary social consciousness and devotion to efforts to give hope to the less fortunate.

YearRecipient(s)
2023Joshua Sequeira
2022Robert Sveda
2021Sean Ebben
2020Jack Jesse
2019Rick Zieser
2018Jasiris Tapia

The Accountancy Faculty Award

Presented to an outstanding senior in the Department of Accountancy.

YearRecipient(s)
2023Nicholas Hiel
2022Katherine Kolis
2021Yuntong Deng
2020Corey Miller
2019Victoria Saravia
2018Meredith Pearce

The Brother Cyprian, C.S.C. Award

Presented to graduating Accountancy seniors in recognition of academic achievement. The awards are granted in honor of Holy Cross Brother Cyprian O’Hare (“Brother Zip”), who helped launch Notre Dame’s Accountancy program in 1895 and later served as department chair.

YearRecipient(s)
2023Frank Jang, Michael Murakami
2022Colleen Stanford, Irma Ibarra, Matthew Dillane
2021Joshua Chapple, Sean Ebben, Erik Ralph
2020Haley Christian, Victor Pologruto, Andrea Simoes
2019Kevin Hayes, Frank Chung
2018Madelein Ginty, Asher Enciso, Abigail Veres, Jeevith Senaratne

The Elmer Layden Award

Presented to graduating Accountancy seniors in recognition of academic achievement. These awards are funded by the Elmer Layden Jr. Endowed Fund and given to graduating seniors withthe highest cumulative grade point averages.

YearRecipient(s)
2023Charles Law, Daniel Poulton, Ryan Ford
2022Aaron Hilliker, Yanik Ariste, Hunter Bratton
2021Tyler Ancona, Elizabeth Lauer, Zachary Eggers
2020Clare Hauch, Caroline McCutcheon, Patrick Starner
2019Samuel Bishop, Patrick Cooney, Avani Rao, Matthew Taggart
2018Daniel Cohen, Xun Wang, Wentao Wang, Nicholas Courtney