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HBA2s return to Ivey and celebrate award winners

Sep 9, 2026

HBA2 award winners

The HBA2 award recipients

Ivey’s HBA2 students are back on campus for the start of a new academic year, with 999 students beginning HBA2, including 208 dual-degree students.

Today’s HBA2 Welcome Back event gave students an opportunity to reconnect with classmates, celebrate achievements from HBA1, and mark the beginning of their final year at Ivey.

Recognizing the award winners

A highlight of the welcome back event was recognizing the student and faculty award recipients whose contributions and accomplishments stood out during HBA1. Congratulations to all of this year’s recipients:

  • Shelagh Donovan Memorial HBA Award – Angelina Zhong and Tatyana Zebroski;
  • KPMG Equity, Diversity and Inclusion HBA2 Award – Kush Bhattessa and Laura Guo;
  • Michael & Stefanie Block HBA Award – Braeden Fava;
  • HBA ’94 McCleary Memorial Award – Sarah Douglas;
  • Stephen Cuddy Memorial HBA Award – Advait Kona;
  • Suzanne Curtis Awards – Maya Feehely (Section 1), Millicent Song (Section 2), Maya Atwal (Section 3), Celina Xiao (Section 4), Sydney Lamers (Section 5), Rui Xia Qiu (Section 6), Mehak Marwaha (Section 7), Ana Shergill (Section 8), Breanna Skelly (Section 9), and Jessica Chen (Section 10);
  • J.J. Wettlaufer Awards – Ethan Sullivan (Section 1), Bob Zhang (Section 2), Braeden Fava (Section 4), Jacob Joseph (Section 5), Louis Hu (Section 6), Kyan Miranda (Section 7), Advait Kona (Section 8), AJ Fraser (Section 9), and Aaryan Joharapurkar (Section 10). 

Faculty excellence was also recognized through the David G. Burgoyne Teaching Award, presented to: