February 15, 2024
UC San Diego’s newest cafe is now open in Franklin Antonio Hall. Crafted @ Minerva’s Cafe brings coffee, boba tea and fresh, organic food with a focus on sustainability to the new Franklin Antonio Hall.
September 19, 2023
The new Franklin Antonio Hall collaborative research building was engineered to incorporate the latest sustainability and efficiency tools, and was recently awarded LEED Platinum certification by the US Green Building Council – the highest level of recognition.
November 30, 2017
Franklin Antonio UC San Diego Alumnus Gives $30 Million to UC San Diego UC San Diego alumnus and Qualcomm co-founder Franklin Antonio is donating $30 million to the university in support of programmatic expansion of the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering. In recognition of the generous gift, UC…
November 21, 2019
…UC San Diego Chancellor; Franklin Antonio, class of ‘74 and Chief Scientist, Qualcomm; Albert P. Pisano, dean Jacobs School of Engineering; Mike Knowles, SVP of Cubic Corp. Photos by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications UC San Diego Celebrates Franklin Antonio Hall Groundbreaking The University of California San Diego celebrated the…
September 29, 2022
The UC San Diego campus community turned out in big numbers last Friday to celebrate the opening of the sleek and soaring Franklin Antonio Hall. The building is not only innovative in its architecture, it’s also ground-breaking in how research teams are organized.
May 16, 2022
Franklin Antonio, a University of California San Diego alumnus from 1974, co-founder of Qualcomm and generous philanthropist, has died.
June 10, 2021
…named research collaboratory in Franklin Antonio Hall When renowned UC San Diego bioengineer Shu Chien completed medical school in 1953, he wanted to find ways to make technological advancements in healthcare that would improve human lives. To do so, he had to find an engineer to collaborate with, since physicians…
November 17, 2017
University of California San Diego alumnus and Qualcomm co-founder Franklin Antonio is donating $30 million to the university in support of programmatic expansion of the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering.
May 6, 2021
…to offer. Outstanding Alumni Franklin Antonio ’74 Muir, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Scientist, engineer and inventor—the career of Franklin Antonio ’74 culminates in his role as chief scientist at Qualcomm, where he has made transformational technology that touches all of our lives. His support of the Jacobs School of Engineering,…
May 14, 2020
…Scripps Pier seawater system. Franklin Antonio Hall, ready for move-in late spring 2022, will bring approximately 200,000 additional square feet of space to the Jacobs School of Engineering. The building will house laboratories, classrooms, project spaces for student engineering teams, facilities for entrepreneurship activities, an auditorium and café, and will…
