Governor Ned Lamont recently nominated Scott M. Jones (BA ’88 HDFS) as one of 22 nominations for judgeships in Connecticut. Jones currently lives in Hamden, CT, earned his Law degree from UConn, and is a public defender in New Haven. Read more about all of the nominations here.

Congratulations to Luke Russell (BA ’10 HDFS and Political Science, and our February alumni spotlight), who recently received Illinois State University’s Research Initiative Award, which recognizes new faculty members (within their first five years) who have initiated a promising research agenda early in their academic careers.

Alumni Elise (Berman) Siegel, BA ’89, was featured in UConn Today in an article about eight couples who met at UConn more than 30 years ago, and are still married. You can learn more about Elise and the other couples, here: Read the article here.   Also note that Elise is Eva Lefkowitz’s cousin, and when Eva first told her about becoming the HDFS department head at UConn, Elise mentioned that she remembered taking HDFS 1070 in the 1980’s from a young new professor, Ron Sabatelli.

Alumni Emily Simpson, PhD 19, recently started a position as an assistant professor of Psychology at East Central University in Oklahoma.

Alumni Ellen Pudney (PhD 2021), who recently accepted a position as assistant professor at Eastern Virginia Medical School in the Division of Pediatric Community Health and Research! Congratulations!