Campus & Community

At Work
Athletics
Campus News
Giving
Student Life

The Latest

A Gift from the Heart: Pauline Foster Gives $7.5 Million to Cancer Care Hospital

Giving

For Pauline Foster, community philanthropist and longtime supporter of the University of California, San Diego, giving $7.5 million in support of the new cancer care hospital at the UC San Diego Jacobs Medical Center is a gift from the heart—both her husband and brother died of cancer. The campus announced today that the facility will be named “The Pauline and Stanley Foster Hospital for Cancer Care,” in consideration of her charitable contribution.

A Gift from the Heart: Pauline Foster Gives $7.5 Million to Cancer Care Hospital

Thousands of Students and Families Attend Transfer Triton Day

Campus News

UC San Diego opened its doors to thousands of newly admitted transfer students and their families on campus Saturday for Transfer Triton Day. In the same tradition as Triton Day, which is targeted toward admitted freshmen, Transfer Triton Day brought together the entire campus community to encourage admitted transfer students to accept their offer of admission to UC San Diego for fall 2014.

Thousands of Students and Families Attend Transfer Triton Day

Five Students Win Free Tickets to TEDxUCSD

Campus News

Five winners have been selected to receive complimentary pairs of tickets to TEDxUCSD and dinner with the speakers at a pre-conference mixer courtesy of Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla. More than 1,800 entries were received for the giveaway contest, which was open to the campus community from April 24 through April 29.

Five Students Win Free Tickets to TEDxUCSD

Connecting for the ‘Common Core’ Good

Campus News

This month—all around San Diego County and the state—elementary, middle and high school students are hunkering down in front of computers and tablets to field-test new assessments in mathematics and English language arts. These tests are part of the Common Core State Standards newly being implemented in California. The new standards, along with California’s Next Generation Science Standards, which will be required of all California public schools by 2016, endeavor to move students toward deeper learning and represent the most profound change to affect education in 25 years.

For GoPro Founder Nick Woodman, UC San Diego was a Catalyst for Creativity

Campus News

In 2010, entrepreneur Nick Woodman’s family business—GoPro—exploded into worldwide success. “You wake up one morning,” he remembers, “and the company you started with your college friends is the fastest growing digital capture company in the world.”

For GoPro Founder Nick Woodman, UC San Diego was a Catalyst for Creativity

UC San Diego Advocates’ Message to State Legislators

Campus News

Representatives from the three segments of public higher education—the University of California, California State University and California Community Colleges—visited the State Capitol April 29 for Joint Higher Education Advocacy Day.