June 19, 2012
Five years on, a research center at the University of California, San Diego focused on technology and cultural heritage has become an important player in efforts to study, safeguard and preserve historic buildings, works of art as well as archaeological sites and artifacts.
August 20, 2014
The University of California, San Diego’s 11th annual Dinner in the Library will take place Friday, Sept. 12 in the Geisel Library building, with proceeds benefiting the UC San Diego Library’s collections and services, which support student and faculty research and teaching. The evening’s festivities will include dinner and cocktails,…
October 7, 2021
…thrilled this building will give us the space to invite our community in to learn about science and solutions firsthand.” Siblings Ellen Browning Scripps and Edward W. Scripps were the driving force behind the founding of Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 1903. Additional philanthropy has come to the university since…
February 13, 2014
The University of California, San Diego will host a special tribute to James Avery, the late acclaimed actor, poet and UC San Diego graduate of 1976, on Saturday, March 1 at 2 p.m., at the campus’s Mandell Weiss Forum. The event, which is open to the public, will include an…
February 13, 2020
…Gary and Jerri-Ann Jacobs give $2 million to help scholar-athletes and graduate students University of California San Diego alumnus Gary Jacobs and his wife, Jerri-Ann, believe that education provides a path to upward social mobility. Throughout the years, they have supported formal education for students to acquire skills and choices…
May 20, 2021
…is growing thanks to philanthropy, allowing students to focus on achieving their academic goals rather than worrying about how to fund their education—an important factor for the 68% of PATHS scholars who come from households earning less than $40,000 per year. “Scholarship gifts to the PATHS Scholars Program alleviate the…
July 14, 2022
Changing the World Through Philanthropy: UC San Diego Raises $3.05 Billion as Campaign for UC San Diego Concludes From scholarships and fellowships to research to address the world’s greatest challenges, funds from more than 163,000 donors are making a difference locally, nationally and around the globe The University of California…
July 25, 2023
Supporters donated a total of $565.7 million to the University of California San Diego during the 2022-23 fiscal year. This is the most ever raised by UC San Diego in a single year, and it represents a 34.6% percent increase over last year’s total philanthropic support.
May 13, 2021
…Mark Gleiberman have embraced philanthropic endeavors supporting UC San Diego and the San Diego community. Most recently, the couple has made a $12 million gift to support the newly named Hanna and Mark Gleiberman Head and Neck Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health. Photo credit: Shannon Henry at Studio…
October 18, 2011
…Scholars program. San Diego philanthropists and longtime residents Steve and Lisa Altman pledged $10 million to the planned Clinical and Translational Research Institute (CTRI) building, to be constructed on UC San Diego’s medical campus in La Jolla. Steve Altman is president of Qualcomm, Inc.; he and his wife, Lisa, have…
