June 9, 2022
June 9, 2022 —
The university announced a new landmark milestone today: it has surpassed its original $2 billion fundraising goal for the Campaign for UC San Diego by $1 billion, raising a total of $3 billion. The Campaign for UC San Diego will conclude June 30, 2022.
June 2, 2022
June 2, 2022 —
UC San Diego is launching the region’s first large-scale, university-based research and data hub focused exclusively on homelessness, thanks to campus friends Phyllis and Dan Epstein and Hanna and Mark Gleiberman. Each couple has donated $1 million to the university.
May 16, 2022
May 16, 2022 —
Franklin Antonio, a University of California San Diego alumnus from 1974, co-founder of Qualcomm and generous philanthropist, has died.
May 12, 2022
May 12, 2022 —
From performances by renowned local musicians and a Family Arts Open House, to a conversation with Los Angeles Times columnist and award-winning author Jean Guerrero, UC San Diego Park & Market—the university’s long-planned presence in downtown San Diego—opened to the community with a bang last week
May 12, 2022
May 12, 2022 —
University of California San Diego alumnus David Goeddel, ’72, and his wife Alena, have donated $7.5 million to drive leading-edge research, discovery and training in the UC San Diego School of Biological Sciences, which includes support for the newly named Goeddel Family Technology Sandbox.
April 27, 2022
April 27, 2022 —
The Kavli Foundation has given $5 million to UC San Diego for the Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind, matching the gifts of generous donors including Joan and Irwin Jacobs; William and Marisa Rastetter; Sandra Timmons ’81 and Rick Sandstrom ’72, Ph.D.
April 11, 2022
April 11, 2022 —
Pradeep K. Khosla, chancellor of the University of California San Diego, was honored recently by the Visual and Performing Arts (VAPA) Foundation for his partnership and support of the arts in San Diego Unified School District.
April 1, 2022
April 1, 2022 —
U.S.-Mexico relations expert Rafael Fernández de Castro has been named as the inaugural Aaron Feldman Family Chancellor’s Endowed Chair in U.S.-Mexican Studies in Memory of David Feldman.
March 3, 2022
March 3, 2022 —
UC San Diego announced today that it has exceeded its fundraising goal as part of the Chancellor’s Scholarship and Fellowship Challenge, raising $10.4 million for scholarships and fellowships, with an additional $5.2 million in matching funds from Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla.
December 21, 2021
December 21, 2021 —
Researchers at the University of California San Diego launched blood stem cells into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to study stress-induced aging and how stem cells and their progeny transform into pre-cancer and cancer stem cells associated with leukemia and other blood cancers.
