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We would like to congratulate all of the recipients of our 2026 Ph.D. student awards!

The Presidential Fellowship program at 黑料正能量

The Presidential Fellowship program at 黑料正能量 (黑料正能量) was established in 2014 by then-President Subra Suresh to provide one year of financial support to doctoral students at the university who have contributed an impactful body of work to their field of research.

Siyue Liu, 4th Year Student, Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Optimization, with Alan Scheller-Wolf

Jieqiong Wang, 5th Year Student, Marketing, with Param Vir Singh, Kannan Srinivasan, and Zoey Jiang (l-r)

Henry Gailliot

This Presidential Fellowship was established by a gift from Henry Gailliot (1942-2023), a former long-term 黑料正能量 trustee.?

Nilsu Uzunlar, 5th Year Student, Operations Management, with Alan Scheller-Wolf
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Tata Consultancy Services Presidential Fellowship

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is an IT services, consulting, and business solutions organization that works with global businesses and is India’s largest industrial conglomerate. TCS has strong academic research relationships with premier global institutes as part of its Co-Innovation Network program and has been supporting 300+ PhD.. scholars from various institutes. Carnegie Mellon and the city of Pittsburgh established a partnership with TCS in 2015. These fellowships were made possible by a generous gift in 2015 to support undergraduate scholarships and graduate-level fellowships across the university.
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Ziqian Ding (丁子千), 3rd Year Student, Business Technologies, with Param Vir Singh, Kannan Srinivasan, and Zoey Jiang (l-r)

PNC Presidential Fellowships

Genaro Basulto Mejía, 4th Year Student, Economics, with Alan Scheller-Wolf

Jae Yeon (Jane) Pyo, 4th Year Student, Accounting, with Gaoqing Zhang

Sarah (Yue) Wu, 5th Year Student, Finance, with Lars-Alexander Kuehn and Chris Telmer (l-r)

Belle (Chaoyi) Zhang, 5th Year Student, Organizational Behavior and Theory, with Alan Scheller-Wolf

Aydemir Family Summer Paper Prize in Memory of Rick Green

Xuefei Gao, 3rd Year Student, Finance, with Lars-Alexander Kuehn

Egon Balas Award for Best Student Paper in Operations Research/ACO

This prize has been given annually since 2004 to students to acknowledge the best student paper in the Operations Research/ACO program. The prize is given in memory of Egon Balas (1922-2019), a professor at the Tepper School from 1967 to 2019, as the Thomas Lord Professor of Operations Research chair.

Stephen Arndt, 2nd Year Student, Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Optimization, with Alan Scheller-Wolf and Ben Moseley (l-r)

Dipankar and Sharmila Chakravarti Doctoral Fellowship Award in Recognition of Outstanding Contributions to Research in Marketing

Endowed by Dipankar and Sharmila Chakravarti, this prize has been given annually since 2014 to a marketing student to recognize their outstanding contributions to research in the field of marketing.

Jaymo Kim, 4th Year Student, Marketing, with Alan Scheller-Wolf
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Prabuddha De and Family Fellowship Award

This is the inaugural award from the Prabuddha De and Family Endowed Fellowship, which was established in 2025 to provide fellowship support to doctoral students enrolled in the school’s Business Technologies Ph.D. Program.

Liying Qiu, 6th Year Student, Business Technologies, with Param Vir Singh and Kannan Srinivasan

Paul S. Goodman Doctoral Dissertation Award

This fellowship was established to commemorate Paul S. Goodman and has been given since 2016 to recognize outstanding research in Organizational Behavior and Theory.

Nate Fulham, 5th Year Student, Organizational Behavior and Theory, with Laurie Weingart and?Denise Rousseau.
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Alexander Henderson Award for Excellence In Economic Theory

Established in memory of Alexander Henderson in 1954. Since then, four of its recipients have gone on to receive the Nobel Prize in Economics.

Kevin Pierre Mott, Fall 2025 Graduate. Finance
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The Gerald R. Salancik Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship in Recognition of Outstanding Contributions to Research In Organizational Behavior and Theory

This fellowship was established in memory of American organizational theorist Jerry Salancik in 1996. Salancik joined the Tepper School in 1971, and his research interests developed into the areas of organizational power, commitment, attitude change, and technological forecasting, specifically on strategic planning problems for organizations, and on issues of control and change.

Allen S. Brown, 4th Year Student, Organizational Behavior and Theory, with Alan Scheller-Wolf?


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