# Second Annual Faculty Excellence Dinner

![faculty excellence dinner](/sites/default/files/assets/images/con_036369.jpg)

As part of a new annual tradition, NYU Stern faculty and guests gathered to celebrate a number of recent faculty accomplishments across the School. Dean Peter Henry underscored the influence of Stern faculty in business, policy and academia, and highlighted a handful of recent honors, including:
- [Ashwini Agrawal](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/ashwini-agrawal)’s Young Researcher Prize from the *Review of Financial Studies*
- [Jennifer Carpenter](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/jennifer-carpenter)’s NYU Stern Distinguished Award for Teaching Excellence
- [Aswath Damodaran](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/aswath-damodaran)’s use of a new platform called Coursekit, making his lectures available on the web to thousands of students around the world
- [Rohit Deo](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/rohit-deo)’s 2012 NYU Distinguished Teaching Award
- [Tom Sargent](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/thomas-sargent)’s 2011 Nobel Prize in Economics
- [Alexi Savov](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/alexi-savov)’s 2011 Smith Breeden Distinguished Paper Prize
- [Robert Seamans](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/robert-seamans)’s Kauffman Firm Survey Best Paper Award
- [Richard Sylla](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/richard-sylla)’s election into the American Academy of Sciences
- [Aswath Damodaran](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/aswath-damodaran), [Sonia Marciano](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/sonia-marciano), [Batia Wiesenfeld](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/batia-wiesenfeld), [Scott Galloway](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/scott-galloway), [Bruce Buchanan](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/bruce-buchanan), [Al Lieberman](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/alvin-lieberman), [Michael Spence](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/a-michael-spence), [Robert Engle](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/robert-engle), [Elizabeth Morrison](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/elizabeth-morrison) and [Glenn Okun](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/glenn-okun) were recognized for devoting their time to students and lending their names to Stern’s new Faculty Scholars Program.

Business and Policy Leader Events

— 5/5/2012

## NYU Stern Honors Faculty Who Hold Endowed Chairs

- [May 2011](/node/44065)