Digital Media Producer

Sydney Herdle

A western Pennsylvania native, Sydney is a writer, photographer and videographer with a background in journalism and higher ed marketing and communications. In her spare time, she is usually drumming, hiking, watching sports or spending time with her guinea pigs.

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Students tagging horseshoe crabs outside

Choose Your Own Adventure: The Tagging of the Horseshoe Crab

Getting muddy to discover more about a species older than dinosaurs

July 8, 2026 | Kim Krieger - UConn Communications, and Sydney Herdle

Research & Discovery
A close up photo of a butterfly on a stick

DEEP and UConn Researchers Working to Help Rare Butterfly Recover on Campus

Rare species don’t only exist in remote places. They’re sometimes surviving right here on campus

June 25, 2026 | Elaina Hancock - UConn Communications, and Sydney Herdle

Research & Discovery
The HuskyTHON management team reveals the final total for the 2026 iteration of the dance marathon, $2,223,489.67, onstage

HuskyTHON Raises Over $2.2 Million For The Kids

The annual dance marathon raised $2,223,489.67 for Connecticut Children's

March 9, 2026 | Sydney Herdle

Community Impact
Buildings on the coast with the words "harmony of nature" and "sea level rise" and a music staff overlaid

More Than Simple Sonification: Next Phase of ‘Harmony of Nature’ Seeks to Make Music

'One of our goals is to be able to reach the nonscientist with scientific concepts and communicate those, and music is … [a] medium where it’s incredibly accessible to people'

July 9, 2025 | Kimberly Phillips, and Sydney Herdle

Research & Discovery
Four students wearing rainbow lanyards use materials like plastic cups and baggies to build contraptions

At UConn’s Queer Science Conference, New Futures Take Shape for Young Scientists

Fourth annual event offers high schoolers hands-on fun served up with a scoop of science

June 11, 2025 | Mac Murray, and Sydney Herdle

Alumni Community Impact Research & Discovery
Students holding up cards revealing the number 2,102,853.03

HuskyTHON Raises Over $2.1 Million

The annual dance marathon raised $2,102,853.03 for Connecticut Children's

March 10, 2025 | Sydney Herdle

Community Impact University News
An aerial view of UConn's Wastewater Treatment Plant and Reclaimed Water Facility

Waste to Resource: How A State-of-the-Art Facility Helps UConn Save Water

Since the Reclaimed Water Facility came online, it has reclaimed hundreds of millions of gallons of wastewater for reuse on campus

December 4, 2024 | Elaina Hancock - UConn Communications, and Sydney Herdle

Alumni Community Impact Research & Discovery
Harry the Giant, the 15-foot-tall puppet featured in “Taurus,” interacts with Blue, one of the rod puppets featured in the show, during tech week rehearsals in the Nafe Katter Theater on Saturday, April 6, 2024. Many of the characters in the show, created by puppet arts student Joanie Papillon, are portrayed through various forms of puppetry.

Ambitious ‘Taurus’ Production Has Been Years in the Making

Blend of music, puppetry, design, and drama will run from April 12 through April 14

April 10, 2024 | Sydney Herdle, and Kimberly Phillips

Maria B. Antony ’19 (CLAS/CAHNR) walks along the paved pathway around the pond at the lower campus of UConn Health.

In Fine Feather

Birdwatching is more than just a hobby for UConn School of Medicine student

April 4, 2024 | Jaclyn Severance, and Sydney Herdle

UConn Health UConn Voices
HuskyTHON students holding up the total amount they raised during this years' HuskyTHON

HuskyTHON Raises Over $1.7 Million For The Kids

The annual dance marathon raised $1,736,591.22 for Connecticut Children's

March 4, 2024 | Sydney Herdle

Community Impact