March 18, 2024
A new $1 million gift will create an endowment to support the annual Human Milk Symposium symposium, which brings together some of the world’s leading breastfeeding and human milk experts for knowledge exchange and visioning.
November 29, 2018
Local Philanthropists Daniel and Phyllis Epstein Give $1 Million to UC San Diego Daniel and Phyllis Epstein committed gifts to UC San Diego totaling $1 million to fund a variety of causes. (Photo provided by Daniel and Phyllis Epstein) Daniel and Phyllis Epstein’s move to La Jolla in 1986 started…
July 9, 2024
Entrepreneurial spirit and groundbreaking innovation have become synonymous with UC San Diego and its alumni. With that same ethos, the campus has launched the UC San Diego Founders’ Pledge. The new initiative allows entrepreneurs, equity holders and early investors to commit a portion of their anticipated equity gains to UC…
February 7, 2012
…to a couple whose philanthropy has deeply impacted the university community. Dr. William A. Lee The following individuals will be recognized during the 2012 celebration: Outstanding Alumnus, Dr. William A. Lee, M.A. ’79, Ph.D. ’82 Dr. William A. Lee is senior vice president, research and pharmaceutical development, at Gilead Sciences,…
May 2, 2024
Stephanie Fraley, Marygorret Obonyo and Daniela Valdez-Jasso have been named Prebys Research Heroes. Grants totaling $1.5 million from the Prebys Foundation will support their research focused on advancing health care and medical discoveries.
January 16, 2014
…a tailored approach to philanthropic giving. His senior leadership career includes the planning and execution of major fundraising campaigns, including UCLA’s upcoming multi-billion dollar Centennial Campaign and the successful Campaign UCLA, which raised more than $3 billion. He joined the UCLA development program in 2002 and served as the director…
September 28, 2023
Robert “Bob” Conn, dean emeritus of the University of California San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, has been selected to receive one of the oldest and most prestigious National Academy of Engineering (NAE) awards, the Simon Ramo Founders Award for 2023.
March 21, 2024
The University of California San Diego’s highly anticipated Triton Center will serve as the heart of campus, and its Triton Alumni and Welcome Center will be a central hub for returning alumni. Several UC San Diego alumni leaders have stepped up to support the project, including Taner Halıcıoğlu ’96
April 4, 2024
A $2 million grant from the Mellon Foundation to support the UC Sentencing Project to drive work – inside and outside of prison – that disrupts the narratives that legitimize the racialized and gendered criminalization of people in California’s women’s prisons.
October 21, 2015
Donald Walter Wilkie, director of the Scripps Aquarium-Museum from 1965-1993 and founding director of the Stephen Birch Aquarium-Museum (now known as Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego), died on October 5, 2015, in San Diego. He was 84 years old.
