Natasha Wagstaff has been selected as a PCAOB Scholar and will receive a scholarship in the amount of $10,000 for the 2021-2022 academic year. (Public Company Accounting Oversight Board). Natasha was an officer in Beta Alpha Psi last year and will continue as an officer in the upcoming academic year.

Nathan Christensen and Matthew Nugent were selected as Utah's only recipients of the 2021 Paul S. Mills Scholarship. This annual program provides needs-based scholarships to students pursuing an undergraduate degree in a financial service-related field. Nathan and Matthew were each awarded $1,000 to assist in the completion of their education. The Paul S. Mills scholarship receives approximately four hundred applications each year for fifteen scholarships awarded. This year, Utah Valley University is the only school in the nation to have two scholarship recipients.

Master of Accountancy student Alex Fitzgerald received a $2,500 scholarship from the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. This national award is a prestigious accomplishment for Alex, who hopes to become a forensic accountant for the FBI.  Alex was encouraged to apply for this ACFE scholarship by accounting faculty member and Professional in Residence, Jay Rollins. Mr. Rollins is a retired U.S. Foreign Service Officer. He spent 25 years working for the U.S. Agency for International Development's Office of Inspector General and the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.

UVU’s two-person negotiation team competed in the National Undergraduate Negotiation Competition hosted virtually by Baylor University. Andre Henao, a Finance major, an accounting minor, and Griffin Rost, majoring in Biology/Pre-dental, finished in 3rd place, missing the final Round by less than one point. Their results are especially noteworthy because this year, eighteen teams competed, which was double from 2019 (the 2020 competition was canceled due to COVID-19). Some of the other schools included New York University, Tufts, US Air Force Academy, West Point, Baylor, University of Florida, Purdue, and SMU. They competed in two negotiation rounds against West Point (1st Round) and Nichols College (2nd Round). The UVU team outscored both competitors. West Point finished in 4th place, and Nichols College finished in 2nd place. SMU won the competition.  Griffin Rost was chosen as a Top Negotiator (Top 25%). UVU has now had 3 Top Negotiators in the two years that UVU has participated.  Philip Danielson, a Woodbury School of Business National Advisory Board member, has coached the team each year.