2024 Recipients

Faculty Category

Emerging Faculty Instructor Award

Stephany Santos
Associate Director of the Verganano Institute for Inclusion and assistant professor-in-residence in Biomedical Engineering
College of Engineering

Distinguished Faculty Instructor Award

Dan Burkey
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education and Diversity and professor-in-residence in the  Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Department
College of Engineering

Emerging Faculty Community Impact Award

Tatiana Andreyeva
Associate Professor in Agricultural and Resource Economics and Director of Economic Initiatives at the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Health
Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy / College of Agriculture, Health, and Natural Resources

Distinguished Faculty Community Impact Award

Angela Bermudez-Millan
Associate Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences
School of Medicine

Emerging Faculty Research Scholar Award

Roman Shrestha
Assistant Professor in Allied Health Sciences
College of Agriculture, Health, and Natural Resources

Distinguished Faculty Research Scholar Award

Richard Pomp
Alva P. Loiselle Professor of Law and Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor
School of Law

Student Category

Graduate Student Award

Erin Cova
School of Medicine

Undergraduate Student Award

Letian Sun
Political Science

Staff Category

Individual Staff Award

Megan Delaney
Academic Advisor 
School of Pharmacy

Community Partner Category

Auerfarm

Keney Park Sustainability Project

Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation (MPTN)

Donald Swinton, UConn Foundation

Institutional Transformation Category

Institutional Transformation Award

UConn Writing Center
Tom Deans, Director of the Writing Center

Institutional Transformation Award

The Research on Resilient Cities, Racism, & Equity Initiative (RRCRE)
Nadine Brennan, David Embrick, Cynthia Miranda-Donnelly, Janice Castle, and Kim Schwartz (UConn Hartford)