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40 Years of Endowed Chairs at UC San Diego

December 9, 2021

40 Years of Endowed Chairs at UC San Diego The university celebrates the success and growth of a prestigious faculty honor Forty years ago, UC San Diego created its first three endowed chairs: the Irwin Mark and Joan Klein Jacobs Chair in Information and Computer Science, the Chair of Judaic…

UC San Diego Establishes Five New Endowed Faculty Chairs

April 4, 2013

…Diego Establishes Five New Endowed Faculty Chairs Gifts totaling more than $8.5 million create new chairs at the School of Medicine and Jacobs School of Engineering For more than 500 years, the world’s great universities have attracted and supported distinguished educators by endowing academic chairs. Now, thanks to charitable donations…

UC San Diego Launches Chancellor’s Endowed Chair and Faculty Fellowship Challenge

February 11, 2016

…San Diego Launches Chancellor’s Endowed Chair and Faculty Fellowship Challenge Philanthropic support will help with recruitment and retention of ladder-rank and junior faculty Universities have used endowed faculty chairs for more than 500 years to recognize, recruit and retain the world’s top scholars. Faculty fellowships, similarly, honor junior faculty who…

Former UC San Diego Foundation Chair and Wife Endow $4 Million Fellowship Fund

August 23, 2012

…UC San Diego Foundation Chair and Wife Endow $4 Million Fellowship Fund Jerome and Miriam Katzin The University of California, San Diego today announced that Jerome and Miriam Katzin have endowed a $4 million fellowship fund to support graduate students. UC San Diego’s more than 5,000 graduate students raise the…

Department of Psychiatry Celebrates 50th Anniversary with New Endowed Chair

April 18, 2019

…50th Anniversary with New Endowed Chair Former department chair Igor Grant, and his wife, JoAnn, donated funds for the chair When a young Igor Grant, M.D., and his wife, JoAnn, a nurse, first moved to La Jolla in 1972, the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California San Diego…

Two Endowed Faculty Chairs Established at UC San Diego’s Rady School of Management

June 9, 2016

…San Diego Publications Two Endowed Faculty Chairs Established at UC San Diego’s Rady School of Management Two endowed faculty chairs funded in part by Ernest and Evelyn Rady through the Rady Family Foundation have been established at UC San Diego’s Rady School of Management. Contributors throughout the U.S. invested a…

Pioneering Physiologist Establishes Endowed Chair at UC San Diego School of Medicine

November 16, 2017

…Publications Pioneering Physiologist Establishes Endowed Chair at UC San Diego School of Medicine $2 million gift from Professor Emeritus John B. West will support teaching and research in respiratory physiology Physiologist John B. West, M.D., Ph.D., can claim many firsts during his career at the University of California San Diego.…

18 New Endowed Chairs Created at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering

August 6, 2024

The Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California San Diego is proud to announce the creation of 18 new endowed chairs. These endowed chairs will empower a world-class cohort of faculty to explore new and innovative research directions.

Music Department Scores First Two Endowed Chairs for Distinguished Faculty

June 4, 2015

…Department Scores First Two Endowed Chairs for Distinguished Faculty Conrad Prebys Concert Hall interior. Photos by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications Local philanthropists support teaching, research and service activities through UC’s Presidential Match for Endowed Chairs UC San Diego’s Department of Music, founded by composers over 40 years ago, spans…

First UC San Diego MacArthur Foundation Chair Holders Named

January 15, 2015

…San Diego MacArthur Foundation Chair Holders Named Sheldon Brown and Emilie Hafner-Burton will hold University of California endowed faculty chairs, each supported by a $1 million endowment For the first time, two distinguished UC San Diego faculty have been appointed to hold University of California endowed faculty chairs supported by…

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