Faculty Spotlights: UCH Women in Science
Timely Topics
Endowed Chairs and Professorships: A New Frontier for Gender Equality--Academic Medicine
Stress and Uncertainty Drag Down Graduate Students' Satisfaction--Nature
Standing in Despair: UCONN Research to Reduce Gun Violence in the US--UConn Today
LGBTQ+ Services at UConn Health
UConn Health Hires Inaugural Chief Diversity Officer
Upcoming Events
Happening in July
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
iREM and UConn Health Biomedical Sciences Summer Program Research Symposium
Wednesday, July 24, 1:00 PM, Academic Rotunda
The Keynote Speaker for the iREM and UConn Health Graduate School's Undergraduate Summer Research Internship Program in Biological and Biomedical Sciences research symposium will be Dr. Teresita Padilla-Benavides, Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at Wesleyan University. Her talk title is “Cysteine Rich Intestinal Protein 2 is a Copper-Responsive Regulator of Skeletal Muscle Differentiation.”
In the news…
- Get to know 2024 UConn Health Graduate School Commencement speaker: Nuratu Quarshie
- Dr. Renata Schiavo was the inaugural speaker at the Graduate School DEI Committee's new Seminar Series. Find out more about the series and her presentation, "The Science of Trust: Implications in Educational Settings" here.
- Biomedical Science PhD student Rosalie Bordett accepts the Eric N James Scholar Award at the 2022 Skeletal Biology and Regeneration Symposium
- UConn firefighters Lt. Steven Ellis and Katherine Wollenberg raise the Progress Pride flag on the flagpole in front of the Main Building at UConn Health to celebrate Pride Month, symbolizing UConn Health's commitment to equitable care. Find more about 2LGBTQ+ care at UConn Health.
- Drs. Leslie Caromile and Kimberly Dodge-Kafka Receive Grant to Support Summer Research Program for Undergraduates from Historically Underrepresented Groups
- UConn Health's Dr. Laurinda Jaffe (center) Named One of Three Board of Trustees Distinguished Professors
- UConn Celebrates Dr. Cato T. Laurencin for Historic NAACP Top Honor
- Dr. Alix Deymier one of eight UConn researchers to receive 2021 NSF CAREER award
Heritage Celebrations and Daily Observances
JANUARY
16th: National Religious Freedom Day
3rd Monday: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day
FEBRARY
Black History Month
20th: World Day of Social Justice
MARCH
National Women's History Month
March 13-April 13: National Deaf History Month
8th: International Women's Day
31st: Cesar Chavez Day
APRIL
National Arab American Heritage Month
MAY
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
Jewish American Heritage Month
Haitian Heritage Month
Older Americans Month
Mental Health Awareness Month
JUNE
LGBTQ+ Pride Month
Caribbean American Heritage Month
12th: Loving Day
19th: Juneteenth
20th: World Refugee Day
AUGUST
Diversity Awareness Month
9th: International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples
SEPTEMBER
Suicide Prevention Month
Sept. 15-Oct. 15: National Hispanic-Latino Heritage Month
16th: Trail of Tears Remembrance Day
OCTOBER
National Disability Employment Awareness Month
Global Diversity Awareness Month
Filipino American Heritage Month
LGBTQ+ History Month
World Mental Health Day
11th: Indigenous People's Day
12th: Dia de la Raza
NOVEMBER
National American Indian and Alaska Native Month
DECEMBER
1st: World AIDS Day
10th: International Human Rights Day
Religious/Cultural Holidays and Observations
Eid al-Fitr (Festival of Breaking the Fast)