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Alumna, Incoming Student Share Passion for Computer Science and Basketball

Athletics

There must be something about hoops, Tritons and computer science. Meet Marissa Hing. The 18-year-old high school senior was on campus April 4 to attend Triton Day, when more than 20,000 accepted students and their families converged on UC San Diego to get a taste of everything the university offers its students-to-be. Despite her 5-foot-1-inch height, Hing is also coming to play basketball on an athletic scholarship for the NCAA Division II team, after starring since her freshman year at Pinewood High School in Los Altos, Calif.

Alumna, Incoming Student Share Passion for Computer Science and Basketball

LGBT Resource Center Celebrates 15 Years of Changing the Culture at UC San Diego

Campus News

In the early 1990s, concerned staff, faculty and student activists sought to establish a Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Resource Center at the University of California, San Diego. In 1999, UC San Diego finally opened the LGBT Resource Office—the last campus to do so in the UC system. Fifteen years later, the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Resource Center at UC San Diego, one of the largest LGBT resource centers in the nation, celebrates a milestone anniversary—a visible presence that enhances a sense of connection and community among faculty, staff, students, alumni and the San Diego community.

LGBT Resource Center Celebrates 15 Years of Changing the Culture at UC San Diego

Students Gear Up for 33rd Annual Sun God Festival

Campus News

Anticipation for this year’s Sun God Festival is strong with many students looking forward to the event from the very first day of the fall quarter. It is expected to draw as many as 20,000 students to RIMAC Field from 2 to 8 p.m. on Sunday, May 3. In order to preserve the 30-year-old tradition, festival organizers have made health and safety a top priority.

Students Gear Up for 33rd Annual Sun God Festival

Philanthropists Evelyn and Ernest Rady Commit $100 Million to Benefit the Rady School of Management

Giving

The Rady Family Foundation has made a $100 million commitment to help recruit and retain faculty and fund strategic priorities at the Rady School of Management at UC San Diego. More than 200 Rady School supporters, alumni, students and business leaders attended a press conference Tuesday at the Rady School’s J.R. Beyster auditorium and a reception following the announcement.

Philanthropists Evelyn and Ernest Rady Commit $100 Million to Benefit the Rady School of Management

Campus Launches Philanthropic Crowdfunding Platform

Campus News

What do a new ballpark, cross-country electric vehicle demonstration and “home-away-from-home” for families of hospital patients have in common? Each is raising support through Crowdsurf, UC San Diego’s new philanthropic crowdfunding initiative.

Campus Launches Philanthropic Crowdfunding Platform

Graduate Students Recognized for Outreach and Service

Giving

Six UC San Diego doctoral candidates named to national Bouchet Graduate Honor Society, which supports students traditionally underrepresented in academia