Pauline Foster, Generous Community Philanthropist and UC San Diego Supporter, Dies
Pauline Foster, community philanthropist and longtime supporter of the University of California San Diego, died on Saturday, July 30.
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Local Philanthropist and UC San Diego Supporter Conrad Prebys Dies
University of California San Diego friend and supporter, Conrad Prebys died on Sunday, July 24, following a battle with cancer. The San Diego philanthropist and businessman was 82.
In Memoriam: William Loomis, Distinguished Professor of Biology, 1940-2016
William F. Loomis, an emeritus distinguished professor of biology who spent 50 years as a faculty member at UC San Diego, died June 30 from cardiac arrest in his campus office while working on a manuscript. A resident of Del Mar, CA, he was 76.
Obituary: UC San Diego Psychology Department Founder George Mandler, 91
George Mandler – founding chair of the University of California San Diego’s Department of Psychology and one of the central figures in psychology’s cognitive revolution – died in his Hampstead, London home on May 6, 2016. He was 91.
Former Chair of UC San Diego Physics Department and Nobel-Prize-Winner Walter Kohn Dies
Walter Kohn, one of the founding faculty members of the Department of Physics at UC San Diego who received the 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry while a professor at UC Santa Barbara, died at his home in Santa Barbara of cancer on April 19. He was 93.
Douglas Inman, Founder of Coastal Oceanography, Dies at 95
Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego Emeritus Professor Douglas Inman, considered the founder of the field of coastal oceanography, died Thursday at the age of 95.
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