April 17, 2014
$1 Million Endowment to Help Establish Center for Social Innovation and Impact at Rady School A $1 million endowment from Carol Lazier and Family has been given to the University of California, San Diego to help establish the Center for Social Innovation and Impact and the Endowed Chair in Social…
October 3, 2013
…alumni—which will fund new endowed faculty chairs, top-of-the-line teaching labs, support for graduate students and expanded mentoring and tutoring programs for the next generation of undergraduates. “I made this gift to recognize the wonderful education I received and to assist the department in its efforts to reach even higher levels…
March 28, 2017
INRIA, the French national institute for computer science and applied mathematics, has created a new International Chair and appointed UC San Diego computer engineer Rajesh Gupta to the part-time position. Gupta will spend up to a year in France spread over the five-year appointment, starting this summer.
May 2, 2024
Barna Saha, a computer scientist at UC San Diego who spearheads a new $10 million multi-university research institute to tackle problems in theoretical foundations of data science, was honored this week as the Harry E. Gruber Professor of Computer Science and Information Technologies Endowed Chair.
September 19, 2016
CSE Prof. Tajana Rosing is the inaugural holder of an academic chair endowed in 2012 by John J. and Susan M. Fratamico to promote scholarship in fields including engineering and the life sciences.
November 7, 2023
When Joan and Irwin Jacobs arrived at UC San Diego in 1966, it was just a fledgling campus, Urey Hall was still under construction and appropriately, “California Dreamin” was the year’s No. 1 top single. Fast-forwarding to 2023, Joan and Irwin’s impact on the campus is immeasurable.
September 3, 2021
After experiencing a medical emergency, Don Cohn is giving back to the department that he credits with saving his life.
April 1, 2016
Two professors at UC San Diego have been named 2016 Fellows of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics “for their distinguished contributions to the disciplines of applied mathematics, computational science and related fields.”
May 12, 2022
…David V. Goeddel Chancellor’s Endowed Chair in Biological Sciences, which was matched by the Chancellor’s Endowed Chair and Faculty Fellowship Challenge. “Dave and Alena Goeddel’s generous gift will help drive continued discovery and innovation at UC San Diego, a world-renowned research powerhouse for biological science and biotech innovation,” said UC…
February 28, 2019
Pharmaceutical leader Cam Garner and his wife Wanda, a cancer workshop facilitator and philanthropic fundraiser, recently gave $2 million to establish the Garner Family Chancellor’s Endowed Chair in Blood and Marrow Transplant at UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center.
