February 11, 2025
February 11, 2025 —
The University of California San Diego, together with Point Loma Nazarene University, will co-host the 24th annual Kyoto Prize Symposium on March 12-13, 2025. The event is free and open to the public.
February 7, 2025
February 7, 2025 —
Philanthropic support is helping improve health outcomes and advance medical discoveries to benefit people near and far.
January 23, 2025
January 23, 2025 —
UC San Diego will hold its 7th annual Triton Giving Day on April 30. The campus will hold two kickoff parties on Jan. 28 and 29 to offer information about leveraging Triton Giving Day to make an impact in a wide range of areas on campus.
January 21, 2025
January 21, 2025 —
A multiyear collaboration between UC San Diego’s School of Arts and Humanities and the San Diego Community College District (SDCCD) to increase the number of students studying and embarking on successful careers in the arts and humanities is receiving a $3 million grant from the Mellon Foundation, the third grant garnered since the program’s inception in 2016.
January 21, 2025
January 21, 2025 —
San Diego-based business leader and philanthropist Aiiso Yufeng Li (Jeff) and his wife DongDong Li (Doreen) have made a new $3M gift to the University of California San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering. The gift celebrates the Jacobs School’s ongoing efforts to empower researchers to translate their innovations to the marketplace.
January 16, 2025
January 16, 2025 —
Nancy Guy, an ethnomusicologist and professor of music at UC San Diego, has dedicated her career to studying the music of Taiwan. From the way environmental concerns seep into songs to how politics proliferate opera, Guy is passionate about discovering and sharing the diverse ways music shapes culture and society in Taiwan. Now, Guy has been appointed the inaugural holder of the Chiu-Shan and Rufina Chen Chancellor’s Endowed Chair in Taiwan Studies in the School of Arts and Humanities in support of her research and teaching activities.
January 15, 2025
January 15, 2025 —
UC San Diego and the University of Haifa expand a regional partnership to study 10,000 years of Mediterranean history and climate change, and to preserve cultural heritage through cutting-edge marine and cyber-archaeology technologies.
January 14, 2025
January 14, 2025 —
UC San Diego Assistant Professors Itay Budin and Christopher Obara have been named Allen Distinguished Investigators by the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation. The pair will receive $1.5 million over three years to develop visualization and tracking techniques to observe key cellular functions in unprecedented detail.
December 12, 2024
December 12, 2024 —
The UC Presidential Medal, the University of California’s highest honor, will be presented to San Diego-based philanthropist and business leader Irwin Jacobs, and in honor of his late wife and community leader, Joan, in recognition of their positive impact in education, health care, technology, the arts and more.
November 19, 2024
November 19, 2024 —
A group of distinguished community leaders, university administrators, faculty and alumni representatives is working diligently on behalf of the university to further the campus’s forward trajectory. The UC San Diego Foundation Board of Trustees welcomed six new and returning trustees to the board for 2024-25, four of whom are UC San Diego alumni.
