Past Award Recipients
Faculty Category
Emerging Faculty Instructor Award
William Davenport
Distinguished Faculty Instructor Award
Jon Bauer
Emerging Faculty Community Impact Award
Cristina Colon-Semenza
Distinguished Faculty Community Impact Award
Laura Cisneros
Emerging Faculty Research Scholar Award
Peter Chen
Distinguished Faculty Research Scholar Award
George Plesko
Faculty Team Award
Native American and Indigenous Studies
Student Category
Graduate Student Award
Kamal Gautam
Undergraduate Student Award
Sydney Seldon
Student Team Award
Aviral Mehta, Pratham Tallam, Faizdeenkhan Pathan
Staff Category
Distinguished Staff Award
Milagros Marrero-Johnson
Emerging Staff Award
Tanya Johnson
Staff Team Award
UConn Husky Nutrition & Sport
Community Partner Category
Hartbeat Ensemble
Institutional Transformation Category
Institutional Transformation Award
Orthopedic Surgery
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)
Emerging Faculty Teaching Award
Christopher Steele
School of Medicine
UConn Health
Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award
Phoebe Godfrey
Sociology
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Emerging Faculty Research Award
Jennifer Mozeiko
Speech, Language, and Hearing
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Distinguished Faculty Research Award
Nathaniel Rickles
School of Pharmacy
UConn Health
Undergraduate Student Award
Makayla Dawkins
Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Cass of ’23
Graduate Award
Anna Marie LaChance
Chemical Engineering
School of Engineering
Emerging Staff Award
Marina Creed
Multiple Sclerosis Center
Department of Neurology at UConn Health
Distinguished Staff Award
Kylene Perras
Assistant Dean for Administrative Operations and Strategic Initiatives
School of Engineering
Emerging Faculty Teaching Award
Valeria Gomez
School of Law
The Graduate School
Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award
Stacey Brown
Public Health Sciences
UConn Health
Emerging Faculty Research Award
Kristen Cooksey Stowers
Allied Health Sciences
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Distinguished Faculty Research Award
Mary Bernstein
Sociology
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Faculty Team Award
Team Members:
- Marisa Chrysochoou (PI), Professor, Department Head, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Amvrossios Bagtzoglou (co-PI), Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Peter Diplock (co-PI), Assistant Vice Provost for Excellence in Teaching & Learning (CETL)
- Rachael Gabriel (co-PI), Associate Professor, Neag, EDCI
- Arash Zaghi (co-PI), Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Sarira Motaref, Associate Professor in Residence, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Shinae Jang, Associate Professor in Residence, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Connie Syharat, Research Assistant & Project Manager, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Student Team Award
Department of Geography COVID-19 Mapping
Team Members:
- Debarchana Ghosh, Professor, Department of Geography
- Adam Gallaher, Doctoral Student, Geography
- Ashley Benitez Ou, Doctoral Student, Geography
- Aaron Adams, Doctoral Student, Geography
Undergraduate Award
Maria Kelly
Law, Social Justice, and the Family
Graduate Award
Amanda Bunce
Department of Natural Resources
College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources
Staff Award
Charlotte Nelson
Department of Psychological Sciences
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Emerging Faculty Teaching Award
Sohyun Park
Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture
College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources
Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award
Fiona Vernal
Africana Studies Institute
Department of History
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Distinguished Faculty Research Award
Emmanouil Anagnostou
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Eversource Energy Endowed Chair in Environmental Engineering
Director of the Eversource Energy Center
School of Engineering
Student Team Award
School of Pharmacy Student COVID-19 Vaccination Education Team
Student Team Members:
- Adlin Garcia Betancourt (Pharm.D., ’23)
- Hiu Lan Chan (Pharm.D., ’23)
- Bailey Conkey (Pharm.D., ’23)
- Roshica Dehaney (Pharm.D., ’23)
- Madeleine Depinho (Pharm.D., ’22)
- Kyra Durfee (Pharm.D.,’22 )
- Xin Dong (Pharm.D., ‘24)
- Isabella Hernandez (Pharm.D., ’23)
- Kylie Price (Pharm.D., ’23)
- Cara Rotatori (Pharm.D., ’22)
- Jasmine Tankard (Pharm.D., ’21)
- Lindsey Taupier (Pharm.D., ’22)
- Alex Theriault (Pharm.D., ’23)
- Leanne Varga (Pharm.D., ’22)
- Lyla White (B.S. ’25, Pharm.D. ’27)
Faculty and Staff Team Members:
- Michael White, Department Head and Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice
- Diana Sobieraj, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice
- Jennifer Girotto, Clinical Professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice
- Grzegorz Rdzak, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice
- Karin Whiting Burgess, Publicity/Marketing Administrator, School of Pharmacy
Faculty Team Award
Environment Corps (E-Corps)
Team Members:
- Chester Arnold, Educator, Department of Extension and Director, Center for Land Use Education and Research (CLEAR)
- Carol Atkinson-Palombo, Professor, Department of Geography
- Juliana Barrett, Extension Educator, CT Sea Grant and Department of Extension
- Nefeli Bompoti, Assistant Research Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Mark A. Boyer, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor, Department of Geography
- Rebecca A. Campbell-Montalvo, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Curriculum and Instruction
- Todd Campbell, Department Head and Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction
- Marisa Chrysochoou, Department Head and Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Hannah Cooke, Research Assistant and PhD candidate, Department of Curriculum and Instruction
- David Dickson, Educator, Department of Extension and CLEAR
- Michael Dietz, Educator, Department of Extension and CLEAR, and Director, Connecticut Institute for Water Resources (CIWR)
- Peter Diplock, Associate Vice Provost, Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL)
- Keith Esch, Science Education Researcher, Horizon Research Inc.
- Bruce Hyde, Educator, Department of Extension and CLEAR
- Gladis Kersaint, Vice Provost for Strategic Initiatives
- Suzanne LaFleur, Director of Faculty Development, CETL
- Byung-Yeol Park, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Department of Curriculum and Instruction
- Joan Pasley, Vice President, Horizon Research Inc.
- Timothy Vadas, Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Jason Vokoun, Department Head and Professor, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment
- John Volin, Provost, University of Maine
- Michael Willig, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Executive Director, Institute of the Environment