June 6, 2024
UC San Diego’s Class of 2024 is walking the graduation stage this June. With sights set on bright tomorrows, our scholars are ready to celebrate and make us proud. Read stories about a few of our outstanding graduates here.
May 30, 2023
UC San Diego’s Class of 2023 looks forward to diving into their future. Their passions range from international environmental equity to artificial intelligence and from biosustainability to lasers and optics. Read more about some of our stunning graduates here.
June 13, 2019
…in the campus’ many commencement ceremonies. With inspirational advice from commencement speaker former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and student speaker Michaela Juels, these graduates will go out into the world, armed with their UC San Diego degree, and pursue their dreams. For many, the path to completion was not…
November 17, 2016
…Gates delivered the 2007 commencement address at Harvard University, UC San Diego development economist Karthik Muralidharan was in the audience, graduating with his doctorate. Muralidharan, who recently won support from the Gates Foundation to work on improving the design and delivery of anti-poverty programs, still finds that speech particularly poignant:…
June 14, 2018
…having the majority of commencement ceremonies on Saturday, June 16 and Sunday, June 17. Learn More… Thousands of UC San Diego’s best and brightest will take the stage this weekend as the Class of 2018 participates in the campus’ various commencement ceremonies June 16-17. The momentous occasion will be celebrated…
June 23, 2022
…Pendergrass served as a commencement speaker for Rady’s graduation ceremony on June 12. We caught up with Pendergrass to ask her about how her background inspires her work, the promise of kelp-based plastic alternatives and the company’s plans for the future. Q. Can you tell us about how your background…
June 2, 2022
…in a series of commencement ceremonies for each undergraduate college, the Graduate Division, Rady School of Management and School of Global Policy and Strategy. They have chased their dreams, and left UC San Diego and the community better than they found them. We are immensely proud of everything our graduates…
November 19, 2020
…San Diego’s first-ever Virtual Commencement. The UC San Diego Central University Library in the 1970s, which was renamed Geisel Library in 1995. Image courtesy of Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego. There are currently more than 200,000 alumni around the world dedicating their time and talents to driving positive…
November 22, 2022
Every leader has a story, an inner drive to do what they do. On the occasion of her recent receipt of the Impact in Education award from the San Diego Black Chamber of Commerce, we had the chance to learn more about Vice Chancellor Becky R. Petitt and what drives…
June 1, 2017
…Eleanor Roosevelt College’s 2017 Commencement speaker, but the path to the podium for this international relations major has not been easy. After she received associate’s degrees in humanities, social sciences, communications and political science at community colleges , her father was diagnosed with a terminal illness. No longer able to…
