Fifty-nine Purdue University Calumet business students have joined faculty members from the College of Business as inductees in the university chapter of Beta Gamma Sigma international honor society.
Baccalaureate students academically ranked in the top 10 percent of their program and graduate level students in the top 20 percent of their program at colleges and universities accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) International are eligible for induction.
Purdue Calumet’s College of Business achieved AACSB accreditation last spring.
With collegiate chapters on five continents, Beta Gamma Sigma seeks to recognize the most outstanding business and management students worldwide.
Recent Purdue Calumet inductees are:
Faculty
Kuan-Chou Chen, Kungwen Chu, Carin Chuang, Susan Conners, Aber Elsaleiby, Kasia Firlej, Edward Furticella, Jamaluddin Husain, Shontrai Irving, John Lucas, Maureen Mascha, Claudia Mich, Paolo Miranda, Dushan Nikolovski, Kenneth Pogach, Rachel Smith, Minoo Talebi Ashoori, Jane Thomas, and Lin Zhao.
Graduate (Master’s) Students from Indiana
Marica Ajder of Hammond, Jonathan Biancardi (Schererville), Corey Clevenger (Merrillville), Andrew Dolder (Merrillville), Jeffrey Gill (Chesterton), Jenny Makinde (Hammond), and Russell Mulligan (Highland).
Antonia Ornelas (Munster), Joshua Pepoff (Munster), Mark Popa (Hammond), Suzanne Ruiz (Hammond), Charles Soblotne (Valparaiso), Steven Stimac (Schererville), Melissa Villarreal (Crown Point), and Lin Zhou (Hammond).
Graduate (Master’s) Students from Illinois
Agnes Ansay of Libertyville, Raul Campos (Clarendon Hills), David Crownover (Flossmoor), Christopher Jewitt (New Lenox), and Sean Murnane (Chicago).
Graduate (Master’s) Students Elsewhere
Kaiyun Fang of Nanjing China, Jian Qin (LiaoNing China), and Meng Shi (Mexico, MO).
Undergraduate Students from Indiana
Leizel Acres of Schererville, Stephanie Benne (Whiting), Jacqueline Bonesteel (Crown Point), Aaron Braun (Portage), Estela Carbajal (Highland), Apryl Cichon (Highland), Matthew Csonka (Griffith), Nikole Cunningham (Griffith), Jessica Czerwinski (Crown Point), and Mante Eckert (Dyer).
Heidi Gobats (Hammond), Carianne Jones (Lake Village), Daniel Jones (Schererville), Alexandra Kaminski (Hammond), Aleksandra Lazic (Dyer), Ashley Magee (Gary), Brianne Manley (Lowell), Jelena Marcic (Schererville), Kelly Marshall (Hammond), and Anthony Masascavollo (Munster).
Natalie Newbold (Valparaiso), Brittany Pasternak (Merrillville), Angela Perez (St. John), Maximillian Thomas (St. John), Shelisa Thomas (Gary), Emily VanderVelde (Schererville), George Vlahos (Munster), Tongan Wang (Munster), and Mingxin Yang (Griffith).
Undergraduate Students from Illinois
Jeremiah Bly of Joliet, Steven Childress (Chicago Heights, IL), Greg Goode (Mokena, IL), Maria Melero (Calumet City), Nicole Petersen (Beecher), and Gage Szablewski (Frankfort).
Undergraduate Students Elsewhere
Yaosheng Wang of Beijing China.