April 24, 2014
…reading of George Saunders’ commencement speech, “Congratulations By the Way.” 11:30 a.m. Live music from Scott Paulson and the Teeny-Tiny Pit Orchestra. 12:30 p.m. Scotch Wichmann, artist and author of Two Performance Artists Kidnap Their Boss and Do Things With Him, will discuss his performance art and sign his new…
February 13, 2014
The University of California, San Diego will host a special tribute to James Avery, the late acclaimed actor, poet and UC San Diego graduate of 1976, on Saturday, March 1 at 2 p.m., at the campus’s Mandell Weiss Forum. The event, which is open to the public, will include an…
October 9, 2014
…participate in the campus’s commencement ceremony. A group of students, including Ostler, wanted to have a graduation ceremony that reflected what they felt were the values of their pioneering class. “Many of us were the first in our family to graduate, so we wanted to have a celebration with our…
August 9, 2018
The arts and humanities will have a stronger and more influential presence on the University of California San Diego campus, thanks to a new $750,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The three-year, matching grant is the largest single award ever received by the university’s Division of Arts…
June 21, 2016
The campus created the new position of Director of Social Impact and Innovation and appointed to the job Naila Chowdhury, a longtime colleague of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mohammad Yunus (who was in San Diego to give the Commencement speech at UC San Diego over the weekend).
May 26, 2022
…address during the graduation commencement ceremony. “When I was working at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, I received a call one morning explaining that drivers were needed for the presidential motorcade,” Platero-Lopez shared. “If we wanted to participate, I needed to give the Secret Service our information by 3 p.m.…
April 27, 2017
The University of California San Diego will host His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama at a public event June 16, 2017 where he will speak about “Embracing the Beauty of Diversity in our World” to an estimated 25,000 attendees on the campus’s RIMAC Field. On May 1 at 10 a.m.,…
February 19, 2015
…Johnson during the event commencement while Hithe shared a poem by Latorial Faison, “What is Black History?” at the reception’s closing. “We as a community must find ways to preserve our history so that we can keep the hopes and dreams of those before us alive today,” said Livingston during…
December 12, 2023
For more than two decades, UC San Diego Extended Studies Parent and Caregiver Education (PACE) has provided college credit courses to parents and caregivers, focusing on how to support each child in their educational journey, from Pre-K through college and beyond.
June 15, 2023
UC San Diego enrolls the most military-affiliated undergraduate students of any University of California campus. Over 100 students are currently serving while obtaining their degree; more than 200 are veterans; and 2,300 are dependents of military service members.
