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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

(see all Master of Arts & PhD graduates)


 


June 2025 Spotlights

 

FACULTY

Headshot. Marlene Schwartz

Marlene B. Schwartz

 

GRADUATE STUDENT

Headshot, Huda Akef

Huda Akef

 

ALUMNI 

Cynthia VanFleet

Cindy Van Fleet (’79 Home Economics Education)