The Dodd Center for Human Rights

The facility, designed by Jeff Sells of the Connecticut-based architectural firm Fletcher-Thompson, varies from one to three stories, comprising approximately 60,000 square feet of space.

The Dodd Center won the “American School and University” Architectural Award, Gold Citation, and has subsequently served as a successful model for archival research, and public programming facilities.

The Dodd Year program brought an array of world figures to campus including Madeleine Albright, Elie Wiesel, and Oscar Arias and concluded in the fall of 1996 with an address by Mikhail Gorbachev.

President Joe Biden, accompanied by Connecticut governor Ned Lamont, former senator Christopher Dodd, and other political dignitaries rededicated the center in a ceremony on October 15, 2021, exactly 26 years after its original iteration's dedication.

Past speakers include Dorothy Q. Thomas, Adam Fairclough, Charlotte Bunch, Harold Koh, Patricia Wald, Samantha Power, Michael Ignatieff, George Mitchell, and James Crawford.