A UConn Engineering alumna, local engineer, and UConn Trustee has generously provided a gift to endow the Jeanine Armstrong Gouin Initiative for Women in Leadership at the UConn College of Engineering. Jeanine Armstrong Gouin ’87 (ENG) announced her undisclosed endowment in July 2024.
This fund will provide financial support for leadership programs and activities that are available to all engineering students, not just women. The focus of the programing is on empowering women engineers to become confident leaders, but the programming will operate on an “all-comers” participation policy, with men equally welcome as women to participate in the programming activities.
Gouin has been twice elected an alumni representative on the UConn Board of Trustees and will have served for eight years if she steps down when her term expires in 2025. She was named as an Honoree of the Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame in 2019; was named to the Connecticut Technology Council’s Women of Innovation in 2017; and was inducted into the UConn Academy of Distinguished Engineers in 2014.
The SLR International Corp. president will begin working with engineering faculty Anna Tarakanova and Qian Yang, and will lead an external advisory board to help launch this program.
From UConn Today
The absence of women leaders in engineering enterprises has long been recognized and unaddressed – until now.
In July, Jeanine Armstrong Gouin ’87 (ENG) – who is both a UConn Trustee and president of an environmental consulting firm – announced that she has endowed an initiative to begin tackling the challenge. She has made an undisclosed gift to endow the Jeanine Armstrong Gouin Initiative for Women in Leadership at the UConn College of Engineering.
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