
HDFS Award Recipients 2025
Faculty
- Rachel Chazen Cohen, Community Engagement Award
- Rebecca Puhl, Advising/Mentoring Award
- Vida Samuel, Teaching Award
Graduate Student
- Naomi Inman, Best Conference Presentation
- Peter McCauley, Best Published Paper
- Benton Renley, Outstanding Instructor
- Yuanyuan Zhang, Outstanding TA
Undergraduate Student
- Catherine Ware, Outstanding Undergraduate Involvement in HDFS Research
- Keely Rodriguez, Outstanding Senior in HDFS. Keely is also one of the recipients of the 2025 Outstanding Senior Women Academic Awards. This is the second year in a row that an HDFS student won this prestigious UConn award
Class of 2025 PhD graduates
Yuyang Hu, Cali Salfia








