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UC San Diego Alumna Gives $100,000 to International Undergraduate Research Program

Giving

The University of California, San Diego’s international research program Pacific Rim Undergraduate Experiences (PRIME) recently received a pleasant surprise—a $100,000 gift from young alumna Haley Hunter-Zinck. The funds will support the greatest needs of the PRIME program, including assistance for future students who travel to the Pacific Rim to conduct research. Hunter-Zinck made the donation in memory of her late mother, Jennifer Zinck.

UC San Diego Alumna Gives $100,000 to International Undergraduate Research Program

Geisel Library Exhibit Traces Chicano Activism in San Diego

Campus News

“There is an old saying that people without a history is like a tree without roots,” said Herman Baca, founder and longtime chairman of the Committee on Chicano Rights. “It’s important for people to know their history, especially when they face the same struggles and issues today that their community has faced for generations.”

Geisel Library Exhibit Traces Chicano Activism in San Diego

New Trustees Announced for UC San Diego Foundation

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The UC San Diego Foundation has announced that 10 new community and business leaders, including four alumni of the University of California, San Diego, will join its Board of Trustees for the 2012-2013 fiscal year.

New Trustees Announced for UC San Diego Foundation

UC San Diego Library to Host Steampunk Tea Aug. 25

Campus News

Victorian time-travellers are invited to join fellow futurists, explorers, and adventurers at a steampunk-themed tea on Saturday, Aug. 25, at 2 p.m., in Geisel Library—known as the “mother ship”—on the UC San Diego campus.

UC San Diego Library to Host Steampunk Tea Aug. 25

Annual Philanthropic Dinner to Benefit UC San Diego Library Set for Sept. 14

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The University of California, San Diego will host its annual Dinner in the Library fundraiser Friday, Sept. 14 at 5:30 p.m. The evening’s festivities—which will take place in the iconic Geisel Library building—will include a gourmet dinner, a silent auction, and a keynote talk on “The Lost Art of Reading” by Los Angeles Times book critic David Ulin.

Annual Philanthropic Dinner to Benefit UC San Diego Library Set for Sept. 14

Nobel Laureate to be Honored at 19th Annual Luau and Longboard Invitational August 19

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For Nobel laureate Roger Tsien, the drive to help find a cure for cancer stems from personal experience. His father battled prostate cancer and ultimately lost his life to pancreatic cancer. As a professor of pharmacology, chemistry and biochemistry at UC San Diego and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, he has worked to develop a novel way to image and possibly even deliver specially targeted drugs to cancer tumors.