Help promote positive body image in the UConn community!! The Body Project is a collaboration between the Women’s Center and Student Health and Wellness. This interactive program provides a forum for open and inclusive dialogue for women and girls to confront unrealistic beauty ideals and engages in the development of healthy body image. The […]
Ways to Support Women and Girls in Afghanistan
We have set up a resource page with information on some organizations that are working in various ways to support women in Afghanistan, refugees and their families.
Update on Lactation Resources
As more students, employees, and visitors return to campus, requests for lactation space will increase. UConn supports working moms through the Lactation policy and related resources and spaces, including break time to pump, and safe and private lactation rooms. To that end, Employee Engagement & Wellbeing in Human Resources has updated the Lactation webpage with resources for […]
2021 Outstanding Senior Women Academic Achievement Awards
We are excited to share with you the winners of this year’s Awards and the 100 Years of Women Scholarship recipients!
LUNAFEST 2021
It’s time for LUNAFEST 2021! Wednesday, April 28 Now in its 20th year, LUNAFEST was the first traveling film festival celebrating stories by women, about women. We hope you will join us to hear these powerful untold stories & together we’ll raise awareness, support the UCONN WOMEN’S CENTER, and champion change directly with our […]
Connecticut 2021 LGBTQ+ Community Survey
Are you a member of Connecticut’s LGBTQ+ community? Do you live in CT? Are you 18 years or older? Join the Proud to Count movement by filling out Connecticut’s LGBTQ+ Community Survey! The survey aims to 1) enhance our understanding of the number of people that identify as part of the LGBTQ+ community in our State and […]
Message from the Rainbow Center and ODI
March 29, 2021 Dear UConn students, staff, and faculty, I am writing to you today to update you that this past month there were two separate reported bias incidents targeting the LGBTQIA+ community on UConn’s campus. On March 16, an RA in Alumni Hall found images drawn on a dry-erase board in the lounge space. […]
Picture A Scientist
Film Screening and Discussion Co-sponsored by the Engineering Diversity and Outreach Center (EDOC)
The Body is Not an Apology: Radical Self-Love as Transformative Action with Sonya Renee Taylor
Join us for the closing event of Women’s Herstory Month! Co-sponsored nationally with the University of Virginia Maxine Platzer Lynn Women’s Center, UMass Dartmouth Center for Women, Gender, & Sexuality, University of Iowa – WRAC (Women’s Resource & Action Center), Georgia College Women’s Center, University of New Mexico Women’s Resource Center, and Virginia Tech Women’s Center. […]
Calling In the Call Out Culture with Loretta Ross
Women’s Herstory Month Opening! Register HERE