Students are assigned to an Honors advisor in the major they will be completing their Honors work for University Honors Laureate or Honors Scholar designations.
Students should go to Student Admin, Academic Progress & Advising, and Advisor to view their advisors. If one of the advisors listed for your Honors major is not listed below, please let us know at honors@uconn.edu.
Note: All Advisors listed in the followings sections are for the Storrs Campus unless otherwise noted.
Academic Center for Exploratory Students (ACES)
All Aces Majors : Jennifer (Lech) Oliveira
College of Agriculture, Health, and Natural Resources (CAHNR)
| Majors | Advisors |
| AGNR-Department | Amy Salai (AGNR changes, not an Honors Advisor) |
| Agriculture & Natural Resources | Sandra Bushmich |
| Allied Health Sciences | ahshonors@uconn.edu (additional collaborator for all Allied Health Preliminary Plans of Study) |
| Allied Health Sciences | Jessica Beaudet |
| Allied Health Sciences | Cheryl Eckert |
| Allied Health Sciences | Tamara Kaliszewski (Waterbury) |
| Allied Health Sciences | Justin Nash |
| Allied Health Sciences | Anna Ramos |
| Allied Health Sciences | Lauren Wilson |
| Animal Science | Mary Anne Amalaradjou |
| Animal Science | Sarah Reed |
| Animal Science | Steven Zinn |
| Applied & Resource Economics | Richard Dunn |
| Applied & Resource Economics | Rigoberto Lopez |
| Applied & Resource Economics | Farhed Shah |
| Applied & Resource Economics | Charles Towe |
| Diagnostic Genetic Science | Denise Anamani |
| Diagnostic Genetic Science | Stephen Lanno |
| Dietetics | Valerie Duffy |
| Dietetics | ahshonors@uconn.edu (additional collaborator for all Dietetics Preliminary Plans of Study) |
| Economics of Sustainable Development & Management - NEW | coming Fall 2023 |
| Environmental & Resource Economics - NEW | coming Fall 2023 |
| Environmental Sciences | Sara Tremblay |
| Environmental Sciences | Jason Vokoun |
| Environmental Studies | Carol Atkinson-Palombo |
| Exercise Science | Doug Casa |
| Exercise Science | Craig Denegar |
| Exercise Science | Lindsay DiStefano |
| Exercise Science | Elaine Lee |
| Exercise Science | Stephanie Singe |
| Individualized Major | Ken Cormier |
| Landscape Architecture | Jill Desimini |
| Medical Laboratory Sciences | Bruce Blanchard |
| Medical Laboratory Sciences | ahshonors@uconn.edu (additional collaborator for all Medical Laboratory Sciences Preliminary Plans of Study) |
| Natural Resources | Ashley Helton |
| Natural Resources | Beth Lawrence |
| Natural Resources | Thomas Meyer |
| Natural Resources | Anita Morzillo |
| Natural Resources | Isaac (Morty) Ortega |
| Natural Resources | Tracy Rittenhouse |
| Nutritional Sciences | Catherine Andersen |
| Nutritional Sciences | Chris Blesso |
| Nutritional Sciences | Ock Chun |
| Nutritional Sciences | Ji-Young Lee |
| Nutritional Sciences | Yangchao Luo |
| Pathobiology | Antonio Garmendia |
| Pathobiology | Kirklyn Kerr |
| Pathobiology | Dong-Hun Lee |
| Pathobiology | Neha Mishra |
| Pathobiology | Emily Reinhardt |
| Pathobiology | Steven Szczepanek |
| Pathobiology | Paulo Verardi |
| Sustainable Plant & Soil Systems | Gerald Berkowitz |
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS)
| Majors | Honors Advisors |
| Africana Studies | Fiona Vernal |
| American Sign Language Studies | Linda Pelletier |
| American Studies | Matthew McKenzie (Avery Point) |
| American Studies | Chris Vials |
| Anthropology | Alexia Smith |
| Applied Data Analysis - NEW MAJOR | coming fall 2023 |
| Biological Sciences - All Majors | Zen Buraceski |
| Biological Sciences - All Majors | Danyel Cuffee |
| Biological Sciences - All Majors | Katerine Pais |
| Biological Sciences - All Majors | Sharyn Rusch |
| Biological Sciences - All Majors | Julian Torres |
| Biological Sciences | Kenneth Campellone |
| Biological Sciences | Rahul Kanadia |
| Biological Sciences | Eric Schultz |
| Biological Sciences | Mark Urban |
| Chemistry | Nicholas Leadbeater |
| Chemistry | Thomas Seery |
| Chinese | Chunsheng Yang |
| Cognitive Science | Letitia Naigles |
| Cognitive Science | William Snyder |
| Communication | Thomas Meade (Stamford & Storrs) |
| Classics & Ancient Mediteranian Studies | Sara Johnson |
| Classics & Ancient Mediteranian Studies | Jeffrey Shoulson |
| Classics & Ancient Mediteranian Studies | Roger Travis |
| Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Robert Bagchi |
| Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Carlos Garcia-Robledo |
| Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Louise Lewis |
| Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Eric Schultz |
| Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Christine Simon |
| Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Mark Urban |
| Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Yaowu Yuan |
| Economics | Kenneth Couch |
| Economics | Vicki Knoblauch (Stamford) |
| Economics | Richard Langlois |
| Economics | Olivier Morand |
| English | Inda Watrous (all new admits, not an Honors Advisor) |
| English | Mary Burke (On leave 2022-2023) |
| English | Pamela Bedore (Avery Point) |
| English | Fred Roden (new admits at Stamford) |
| English | Thomas Shea (Hartford) |
| English | Erika Wiliams |
| Environmental Sciences | Sara Tremblay (freshmen & sophomores) |
| Environmental Sciences | Jason Vokoun |
| Environmental Studies | Mark Boyer |
| Environmental Studies | Carol Atkinson-Palombo |
| French | Roger Celestin |
| French | Eliane Dalmolin |
| Geographic Information Science | Amy Burnicki |
| Geography | John-Andrew (Andy) Jolly-Ballantine |
| Geoscience | Robert Thorson |
| German | Friedemann Weidauer |
| German | Sebastian Wogenstein |
| History | Joel Blatt (new admits at Stamford) |
| History | Heather Parker (all campuses) |
| History | Sylvia Schafer |
| Human Dev. & Family Studies | Alaina Brenick (Hartford, Stamford, Storrs & Waterbury) |
| Human Rights | Elizabeth Holzer |
| Individualized Major | Ken Cormier |
| Italian Literary and Cultural Studies | Philip Balma |
| Journalism/Pre-Journalism | Marie Shanahan |
| Judaic Studies | Stuart Miller |
| Latino and Latin American Studies | Anne Gebelein |
| Linguistics/Philosophy | William Snyder |
| Linguistics/Philosophy | Hendrikus Van Der Hulst |
| Linguistics/Psychology | William Snyder |
| Marine Sciences | Claudia Koerting (Avery Point) |
| Maritime Studies | Mary K Bercaw Edwards (Avery Point) |
| Maritime Studies | Helen Rozwadowski (Avery Point) |
| Mathematics (All) | Rachel D'Antonio (all new Honors students, applicants & changes, not an Honors Advisor) |
| Mathematics | Matthew Badger |
| Mathematics | Vasileios Chousionis |
| Mathematics | Keith Conrad |
| Mathematics | Alvaro Lozano-Robledo |
| Mathematics & App Math | Luke Rogers |
| Math, App Math, Math/Stat & Math/Physics | Iddo Ben-Ari |
| Math, App Math, Math/Stat & Math/Physics | Katherine Hall |
| Math, App Math, Math/Stat & Math/Physics | Thomas Roby |
| Math-Act Sci-Finance & Math/Stat | Stephen Camilli |
| Math-Act Sci-Finance & Math/Stat | Andrew Niedzielski |
| Math-Act Sci-Finance & Math/Stat | Dan Watt |
| Mathematics/Physics | Maria Gordina |
| Mathematics/Physics | Alexander Teplyaev |
| Math/Physics & Appl Math | David Reed Solomon |
| Mathematics/Statistics | Elizabeth Schifano |
| Molecular & Cell Biology - Undergraduate Coordinator | Sharyn Rusch (contact for all new Honors BIOL, MCB applicants & changes) |
| Molecular & Cell Biology | Everyone listed on the MCB faculty page, except for Masakazu Yamamoto, are Honors advisors. |
| Philosophy | Lionel Shapiro |
| Physics/Engineering Physics | Elena Dormidontova |
| Physics/Engineering Physics | Richard Jones |
| Physics/Engineering Physics | Peter Schweitzer |
| Physiology & Neurobiology - Undergraduate Coordinator | Zen Buraceski (contact for all new Honors BIOL, PNB applicants & changes) |
| Physiology & Neurobiology | Xinnian Chen |
| Physiology & Neurobiology | Joanne Conover |
| Physiology & Neurobiology | Joseph Crivello |
| Physiology & Neurobiology | Angel de Blas |
| Physiology & Neurobiology | Jeffrey Divino |
| Physiology & Neurobiology | Rahul Kanadia |
| Physiology & Neurobiology | Alexander Jackson |
| Physiology & Neurobiology | Kristen Kimball |
| Physiology & Neurobiology | Joseph LoTurco |
| Physiology & Neurobiology | Karen Menuz |
| Physiology & Neurobiology | Andrew Moiseff |
| Physiology & Neurobiology | Daniel Mulkey |
| Physiology & Neurobiology | Akiko Nishiyama |
| Physiology & Neurobiology | Linnaea Ostroff |
| Physiology & Neurobiology | John Redden |
| Physiology & Neurobiology | Daniel Schwartz |
| Physiology & Neurobiology | Jianjun Sun |
| Physiology & Neurobiology | Geoffrey Tanner |
| Physiology & Neurobiology | Anastasios Tzingounis |
| Physiology & Neurobiology | Randall Walikonis |
| Political Science | Beth Ginsberg (Stamford) |
| Political Science | Virginia Hettinger |
| Political Science | Jeffrey Ladewig |
| Political Science | Matthew Singer |
| Political Science | Jennifer Sterling-Folker |
| Political Science | Yonatan (Yoni) Morse (Stamford) |
| Psychological Sciences | Robert Astur (Storrs & Waterbury) |
| Psychological Sciences | Janet Barnes-Farrell |
| Psychological Sciences | Jeffrey Burke |
| Psychological Sciences | Chi-Ming Chen |
| Psychological Sciences | James Chrobak (all new PSYC students) |
| Psychological Sciences | Marie Coppola |
| Psychological Sciences | Dean Cruess |
| Psychological Sciences | Kimberly Cuevas |
| Psychological Sciences | James Dixon |
| Psychological Sciences | Inge-Marie Eigsti |
| Psychological Sciences | Deborah A. Fein |
| Psychological Sciences | Amy Gorin |
| Psychological Sciences | Lori Gresham (Stamford) |
| Psychological Sciences | Jessica Groves - Advising Coordinator |
| Psychological Sciences | Robert Henning |
| Psychological Sciences | Blair T. Johnson |
| Psychological Sciences | Jamie Kleinman (Avery Point) |
| Psychological Sciences | Nicole Landi |
| Psychological Sciences | Vicki Magley |
| Psychological Sciences | Etan Markus |
| Psychological Sciences | Kerry Marsh (Hartford) |
| Psychological Sciences | Stephanie Milan |
| Psychological Sciences | Letitia Naigles |
| Psychological Sciences | Crystal Park |
| Psychological Sciences | Felicia Pratto |
| Psychological Sciences | Nairan Ramirez-Esparza |
| Psychological Sciences | Heather Read |
| Psychological Sciences | John Salamone |
| Psychological Sciences | Rhiannon L. Smith |
| Psychological Sciences | Ian Stevenson |
| Psychological Sciences | Harvey Swadlow |
| Psychological Sciences | Kimberli Treadwell (Storrs and Waterbury) |
| Psychological Sciences | Eiling Yee |
| Sociology | Matthew Hughey |
| Sociology | Ingrid Semaan (Stamford) |
| Spanish | Rosa Helena Chinchilla |
| Spanish | Miguel Gomes |
| Spanish | Guillermo Irizarry (all new students) |
| Speech, Lang. & Hearing Sciences | Kathleen Cienkowski (no new advisees) |
| Speech, Lang. & Hearing Sciences | Bernard Grela |
| Statistical Data Science - NEW MAJOR | coming fall 2023 |
| Statistics | Elizabeth Schifano |
| Structural Biology & Biophysics | Nathan Alder |
| Structural Biology & Biophysics | James Cole |
| Urban & Community Studies | Phil Birge-Liberman |
| Urban & Community Studies | Mary Donegan |
| Urban & Community Studies | Stacy Maddern |
| Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies | TBD |
School of Business (BUSN)
| Majors | Honors Advisors |
| 1st-Year & Sophomore Business | Alana Adams |
| 1st-Year & Sophomore Business | Jose Aponte |
| 1st-Year & Sophomore Business | Jia Cai |
| 1st-Year & Sophomore Business | Laila Chaoui |
| 1st-Year & Sophomore Business | Meradith Ganow |
| 1st-Year & Sophomore Business | Kristin Glinzak |
| 1st-Year & Sophomore Business | Brandy Nelson |
| 1st-Year & Sophomore Business | (Robert) Alex Sauer |
| 1st-Year & Sophomore Business | Hunter Tashea |
| Accounting | Alina Lerman |
| Finance | Liping Qiu |
| Health Care Management | Resul Cesur |
| Health Care Management | William Pace |
| Management | Kyoungjo (Jo) Oh |
| Mgmt & Engineering for Manufacturing | Jiong Tang |
| Management Info Systems (OPIM) | Jonathan Moore |
| Marketing | Nicholas Lurie |
| Real Estate/Urban Economics | Jeffrey Cohen |
School of Education (EDUC)
| Majors | Honors Advisors |
| Education | Elizabeth Howard |
| Education | Catherine Little |
| Sport Management | Laura Burton |
School of Engineering (ENGR)
| Majors | Honors Advisors |
| Honors advisor assignments: | Jennifer Steszewski (not an Honors advisor) |
| Biomedical Engineering | Lisa Ephraim (freshmen & sophomores) |
| Biomedical Engineering | Patrick Kumavor |
| Chemical Engineering | Kelly Burke |
| Chemical Engineering | Yongku Cho |
| Chemical Engineering | Anson Ma |
| Chemical Engineering | Jeff McCutcheon |
| Chemical Engineering | Ranjan Srivastava |
| Civil Engineering | Shinae Jang |
| Civil Engineering | Manish Roy |
| Computer Engineering | Ali Gokirmak |
| Computer Science | Phillip Bradford (Stamford) |
| Computer Science & Engr (CS/CSE) | Jinbo Bi |
| Computer Science & Engr (CS/CSE) | Caiwen Ding |
| Computer Science & Engr (CS/CSE) | Suining He |
| Computer Science & Engr (CS/CSE) | Yuan Hong |
| Computer Science & Engr (CS/CSE) | Sheida Nabavi |
| Computer Science & Engr (CS/CSE) | Zhijie (Jerry) Shi |
| Computer Science & Engr (CS/CSE) | Yufeng Wu |
| Electrical Engineering | Ali Gokirmak |
| Engineering - Undecided | Shoshana Armington |
| Engineering Physics (undeclared) | Althea Lozefski |
| Engineering Physics - Electrical | Faquir Jain |
| Engineering Physics - Materials | Rainer Hebert |
| Engineering Physics - Mechanical | Ugur Pasaogullari |
| Environmental Engineering | Alexander Agrios - on leave 2022-23 |
| Environmental Engineering | Tim Vadas |
| Environmental Engineering | Guiling Wang |
| MGMT & ENGR for Manufacturing | Jiong Tang |
| Materials Science & Engineering | Seok-Woo Lee (limited advisees) |
| Materials Science & Engineering | Yuanyuan Zhu (main Honors advisor) |
| Mechanical Engineering | Horea Ilies |
| Mechanical Engineering | Jason Lee |
| Mechanical Engineering | Julian Norato |
| Multidisciplinary Engineering | Shoshana Armington |
| Robotics Engineering | Ali Gokirmak |
School of Fine Arts (FNAR)
| Majors | Honors Advisors |
| Acting | Adrienne Macki |
| Art | Alison Paul |
| Art | John Richardson |
| Art History | Robin Greeley |
| Design & Technical Theater | Adrienne Macki |
| Digital Media & Design | Clarissa Ceglio |
| Digital Media & Design | Joseph (Tom) Scheinfeldt |
| Digital Media & Design | Matthew Worwood (Stamford) |
| Gen Prog in Music/Music/Pre-Teachings Music Education | Eric Rice |
| Puppetry | Bartolo Roccoberton Jr. |
| Theatre Studies | Adrienne Macki |
School of Nursing (NURS)
| Majors | Honors Advisors |
| Nursing - Honors Coordinator | Deborah Chyun - Nursing Honors Coordinator and additional collaborator for all Nursing Preliminary Plans of Study |
| Nursing | Ivy Alexander |
| Nursing | Valarie Artigas |
| Nursing | Cheryl Beck |
| Nursing | Katherine Bernier |
| Nursing | Eileen Carter |
| Nursing | Sharon Casavant |
| Nursing | Michelle Cole |
| Nursing | Eileen Condon |
| Nursing | Christine DiLeone |
| Nursing | Carrie Eaton |
| Nursing | Wendy Henderson |
| Nursing | Michelle Judge |
| Nursing | Tiffany Kelley |
| Nursing | Steven Kinsey |
| Nursing | Ruth Lucas |
| Nursing | Annette Maruca |
| Nursing | Kelley Newlin-Lew |
| Nursing | Barbara O'Neill |
| Nursing | Louise Reagan |
| Nursing | Christina Ross |
| Nursing | Juliette Shellman |
| Nursing | Natalie Shook |
| Nursing | Marianne Snyder |
| Nursing | Christine Tocchi |
| Nursing | Tom Van Hoof |
| Nursing | Stephen Walsh |
| Nursing | Gee Su Yang |
School of Pharmacy (PHAR)
| Majors | Honors Advisors |
| Pharmacy Studies (1st & 2nd years) | Megan Delaney |
| Pharmacy Studies & Doctor of Pharmacy | Brian Aneskievich |
School of Social Work (SOCW)
| Honors Advisor: Hartford Campus | Joy Learman |
Regional Campuses
Avery Point
| Majors | Honors Advisors |
| Honors Coordinator | Johnny Banks Jr. |
| CLAS - American Studies | Matthew McKenzie |
| CLAS - English | Pamela Bedore |
| CLAS - History | Heather Parker |
| CLAS - Marine Sciences | Claudia Koerting |
| CLAS - Maritime Studies | Mary K Bercaw Edwards |
| CLAS - Maritime Studies | Helen Rozwadowski |
| CLAS - Psychological Sciences | Jamie Kleinman |
Hartford
| Majors | Honors Advisors |
| Honors Coordinator | Melissa Manning |
| BUSN - 1st-Year & Sophomore Business | Kayla Hogrefe |
| BUSN - Business Administration | Nora Madjar |
| BUSN - Business Data Analytics | Nora Madjar |
| BUSN - Financial Management | Nora Madjar |
| BUSN - Marketing Management | Nicholas Lurie |
| CLAS - English | Thomas Shea |
| CLAS - History | Heather Parker |
| CLAS - Human Dev. & Family Studies | Alaina Brenick |
| CLAS - Psychological Sciences | Kerry Marsh |
| CLAS - Urban & Community Studies | Phil Birge-Liberman |
| SOCW - Social Work | Joy Learman |
Stamford
| Majors | Honors Advisors |
| Honors Program Staff & Advisor, and ACES Honors Advisor | Kaitlin Heenehan |
| BUSN - 1st-Years & Sophomores | Alison Lerman |
| BUSN - 1st-Years & Sophomores | Dan Levy |
| BUSN - 1st-Years & Sophomores | Eddie Papazoni |
| BUSN - Juniors & Seniors | Wynd Harris |
| ENGR - Computer Science | Phillip Bradford |
| FNAR - Digital Media & Design | Matthew Worwood |
| CLAS - Communication | Thomas Meade |
| CLAS - Economics | Vicki Knoblauch |
| CLAS - English | Fred Roden (new admits) |
| CLAS - History | Joel Blatt (new admits) |
| CLAS - History | Heather Parker |
| CLAS - Human Dev. & Family Studies | Alaina Brenick |
| CLAS - Political Science | Beth Ginsberg |
| CLAS - Political Science | Yonatan (Yoni) Morse |
| CLAS - Psychological Sciences | Lori Gresham |
| CLAS - Sociology | Ingrid Semaan |
| General Studies | TBD |
Waterbury
| Majors | Honors Advisors |
| Honors Coordinator | Jamie Caruso |
| Allied Health | Tamara Kaliszewski |
| American Studies | tbd |
| Bus. Administration & Data Analytics | Nora Madjar |
| 1st-Year & Sophomore Business | Nakeia Moore |
| English | tbd |
| History | Heather Parker |
| Human Dev. & Family Studies | Alaina Brenick |
| Psychological Sciences | Robert Astur |
| Psychological Sciences | Kimberli Treadwell |
| Urban & Community Studies | tbd |
Additional Support
Major/Program
| Majors | Honors Advisor |
| Bachelor of General Studies (BGS) | James Hill |
| Honors Program Staff | Jennifer Lease Butts |
| Honors Program Staff | Patricia Szarek |
| Honors Program Staff | Jennifer Oliveira |
| Honors Program Staff | Anne Kim |
| Individualized Major | Ken Cormier |
| Pre-Health Professions | Keat Sanford |
| Pre-Dental Advisor | Tom Abbott |
| Pre-Law Advisor | Diane Whitney |