September 22, 2025
September 22, 2025 —
Tony Award-winning director Des McAnuff will join the University of California San Diego as the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Professor of Practice in Theatre and Dance during the 2025-26 academic year. The position was established with philanthropic support from Irwin Jacobs.
September 10, 2025
September 10, 2025 —
The University of California San Diego has announced that Karsten Theil Hansen has been named the inaugural recipient of the Duane A. Nelles Jr. Endowed Chair in Corporate Governance.
September 10, 2025
September 10, 2025 —
The acclaimed Stuart Collection at the University of California San Diego has received donations totaling $1 million from Irwin Jacobs and Jill and Peter Kraus to support the Emerging Artists Program.
August 11, 2025
August 11, 2025 —
The UC San Diego School of Medicine announced the inaugural recipients of its pivot grant program, an initiative made possible by a $1 million gift from Prebys Foundation to help protect San Diego’s biomedical research sector in response to declining federal funding for medical research.
July 29, 2025
July 29, 2025 —
UC San Diego has opened the Brian & Nancy Malk Sunset Overlook, complete with a viewing platform, benches, pathways and accessible parking off La Jolla Shores Drive in La Jolla.
July 1, 2025
July 1, 2025 —
Robert C. Dynes, University of California President Emeritus and former Chancellor of the University of California San Diego, died on June 30, 2025. He was 82.
June 24, 2025
June 24, 2025 —
On August 2, UC San Diego will host the Curebound Cancer Challenge, with cancer patients, survivors, doctors, researchers, families and friends all coming together to ride – or run, walk, spin or cheer from the sidelines - to raise critical funds for cancer research.
June 17, 2025
June 17, 2025 —
UC San Diego has established the Bioinformatics, Epidemiology, and Lp(a) Center for Research and InnOvatioN (BEACON) to better understand how elevated Lp(a) levels contribute to heart disease with the goal of improving patient care.
June 17, 2025
June 17, 2025 —
The University of California San Diego celebrated the ceremonial ribbon cutting and opening of the new Viterbi Family Vision Research Center at Shiley Eye Institute on June 11, marking a significant milestone in the university's commitment to advancing ophthalmologic research and care.
