A Look Back at 2022
December 15, 2022
As we look forward to the upcoming new year, UC San Diego Today invites readers to take a look back at some milestones from 2022.
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Campus Leverages Milestone Anniversary to Raise Critically-Needed Funds
October 18, 2011
…and unexpected $2 million donation from Audrey Geisel (widow of author Theodor “Dr. Seuss” Geisel) to jumpstart the renovation of University House. Corporate partners, including Visionary Sponsors Cubic Corporation, Qualcomm and Sempra Energy, helped to fund 50th Anniversary events; other organizations donated a percentage of merchandise sales to Invent the…
Give and Make
April 12, 2018
…University Hospital.” Within a month, the community hospital, operated by UC San Diego, performed the region’s first kidney transplant on a 32-year-old aircraft worker. Marshall Orloff, MD, then chair of the Department of Surgery, declared the transplant surgery to be a success, but warned many future patients would not fare…
Beyond the Campaign Poster: UC San Diego’s United Way/CHAD Campaign
March 21, 2013
…trying to improve their lives, and we as a community are helping them to do so. It was really heartwarming to see.” For more than 30 years, UC San Diego has partnered with the United Way of San Diego County to strengthen the local community, focusing on improving education, income…
Remembering UC San Diego Friends Miriam and Jerome Katzin
June 19, 2014
…passing in the same month is incredibly sad; they will be greatly missed.” For years, the Katzins steadily championed the university as one of San Diego’s most important assets. In recognition of their outstanding support and service to UC San Diego, Miriam and Jerome Katzin received the prestigious Chancellor’s Medal…
Scripps Oceanography Receives nearly $5.5 Million in Recent Gifts
February 28, 2012
…string of major private donations in early 2012 that exceeded $5.2 million. $3.5 million from the David Delacour estate $1 million from the W.M. Keck Foundation $680,000 from the Waitt Foundation $300,000 from the Lowe Family Foundation The gifts will help ensure the future excellence of the institution for many…
UC San Diego Physician, Alumni Partner to Provide Prosthetic Limbs for Ukrainian Amputees
September 15, 2022
…skill that takes a lifetime to learn,” Dr. Monga said. “Herb [Barrack] took his time and I appreciated his patience.” Gathering data in Ukraine Dr. Monga flew to Warsaw, then drove to the border between Poland and Ukraine with a group of physicians. The border can only be crossed on…
Volunteers Pack More Than 18,000 Meals for Hungry as Part of Family Weekend Service Event
November 1, 2012
…education and in the life of the university. The Family of the Year award was given to Revelle College senior Fernando Picazo and his family. “My college experience has been full of struggles and triumphs,” Picazo wrote in his essay. “And through each of these roses and thorns, my family…
‘A Tornado at the Front Door, a Tsunami at the Back Door’
January 23, 2020
…Janz’s 20 years of life, most neighbors in his tiny Canadian town never knew he was sick. Janz snowboarded, hunted and fished. He hung with friends, often playing ice hockey video games. He worked in shipping and receiving for a company that makes oil pumps. But there were times when…
Inspirational Campus Leader Battling Stage 4 Cancer Receives One of Dentistry’s Highest Honors
March 18, 2021
…just two or three months to live. Now, 58 months later, after several surgeries and aggressive, ongoing treatments at UC San Diego Health, he is being recognized as a recipient of the American Dental Education Association Foundation 2021 William J. Gies Awards for Vision, Innovation and Achievement in the Dental…
