Starting in January 2026 ISSS International Student Advisors will have new advising populations.  We are making this change to improve advising services to our international students.  The goals are to improve response times to student emails, improve wait times for student requests, and to reduce the wait time for students to get an appointment with an ISSS advisor.  While not all majors will be affected, there are many changes.

To see who the advisor is for your major and if there are any changes please visit: https://international.global.uconn.edu/isss-advisors/

The updated advising populations are listed below.

Catherine Barachkova

• International Scholar Advisor for all J-1 visiting scholars, postdocs and visiting professors.  Advisor for all sponsored international students.

Nadine Boudissa (Storrs Campus)

• International Student Advisor for all F-1 and J-1 students in the College of Engineering.

Annie Casarella (Storrs Campus)

• International Student Advisor for all F-1 and J-1 students in the College of Agriculture, Health, and Natural Resources, School of Nursing.
• International Student Advisor for all F-1 and J-1 students in the School of Pharmacy.
• International Student Advisor for all F-1 and J-1 students in the School of Education.
• International Student Advisor for all F-1 and J-1 students in the ACES, General Studies, and Individualized majors.
• International Student Advisor for all F-1 and J-1 students in the Speech Language and Hearing Science majors.
• International Student Advisor for students in the UCAELI Intensive English Program.

Lulu Dong (Stamford, Storrs, Waterbury campuses)

• International Student Advisor for all F-1 and J-1 students at the UConn Stamford campus.
• International Student Advisor for all F-1 and J-1 students at the UConn Waterbury campus.
• International Student Advisor for for all F-1 and J-1 students on the Storrs campus majoring in Statistics, Biostatistics and Statistical Data Science.
• International Student Advisor for for all F-1 and J-1 students on the Storrs campus majoring in Business.

Neena Kapoor (Avery Point, Hartford, Storrs campuses)

• International Student Advisor for all F-1 and J-1 students at the UConn Avery Point campus.
• International Student Advisor for all F-1 and J-1 students at the UConn Hartford campus.
• International Student Advisor for for all F-1 and J-1 graduate students on the Storrs campus majoring in Chemistry and the Social Sciences.

Leslie Lawrence (School of Law and Storrs campuses)

• International Student Advisor for all F-1 and J-1 students at the UConn School of Law.
• International Student Advisor for for all F-1 and J-1 students on the Storrs campus majoring in Data Science, the Humanities, Life Sciences and Mathematics.
• International Student Advisor for all incoming exchange students.

Huong Pham (Storrs campus)

• International Student Advisor for all F-1 and J-1 students in the School of Fine Arts.
• International Student Advisor for all F-1 and J-1 undergraduate students majoring in Physics, Psychology, and the Social Sciences.

---