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Celebrating Visionary Philanthropists
Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla recently recognized three extraordinary alumni with the 2025 Chancellor’s Medal Award and Evelyn and Ernest Rady with the Lifetime Legacy Award. In addition, Irwin M. Jacobs and the late Joan Jacobs were honored with the UC Presidential Medal.
Groundbreaking Step in Battling Angioedema
UC San Diego has established the Hereditary Angioedema (HAE) Community Endowed Chair in Angioedema Clinical Excellence, with Mark Reidl, MD, MS, named as inaugural chair holder.
Protecting the Future of Discovery
Behind every breakthrough at UC San Diego is a team of researchers fueled by curiosity and driven to make a difference. But without federal support, progress stalls. Learn why protecting research funding matters — and explore UC San Diego’s new Behind Every Breakthrough initiative and website.
Gift Celebrates Entrepreneurship Efforts at Jacobs School of Engineering
San Diego-based business leader and philanthropist Aiiso Yufeng Li (Jeff) and his wife DongDong Li (Doreen) have made a new $3 million gift to the Jacobs School of Engineering.
Originally launched in 2020 with a $1.3 million award from the Koret Foundation, the project studies climate and environmental change on Israel’s Mediterranean coast over the last 10,000 years through cyber- and marine archaeology.
A collaboration between the Arts and Humanities and the San Diego Community College District (SDCCD) to increase the number of students studying and embarking on successful careers in the arts and humanities is receiving a $3 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Joan and Irwin Jacobs Honored with UC Presidential Medals
The University of California’s highest honor will be presented to philanthropist and business leader Irwin Jacobs, and in honor of his late wife and community leader, Joan, in recognition of their positive impact in education, health care, technology, the arts and more.
Eddy Keming Chen, associate professor of philosophy at the School of Arts and Humanities, was awarded the grant to study quantum foundations.
UC San Diego Electrical Engineering Professor Honored by Schmidt Sciences for AI Research
Just one of 20 faculty to be named to receive the honor — and the only one in the UC system — electrical engineering professor Yuanyuan Shi focuses on developing AI models for sustainable energy systems.
For the first time ever, this year’s Chancellor’s Medal recipients are all UC San Diego alumni: David Goeddel ’72; Ken Kroner, PhD ’88; and Sally WongAvery ’75, while the Lifetime Legacy Award will go to local philanthropists and community leaders, Evelyn and Ernest Rady.
21st Century India Center Gets Boost with Gift
A generous gift from the Motwani Jadeja Foundation was made with the goal of deepening U.S.-India ties and collaboration. The funding will establish an international fellowship, leadership program and India Courses Hub.
Jacobs Alumna Honors Friend with Endowed Award
To honor the memory of Alice Wu '12, a computer science alumna, her friend Regina Ip '11 crowdfunded support to establish the Alice Y. Wu Memorial Award for junior and senior computer science majors.
Paul Allen Gives $10 Million for Neurobiology
The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group has selected Scripps Institution of Oceanography to receive a four-year, $10 million grant.
Stepping Up to Support our Scholars
The Chancellor’s Alumni Council Scholarships Match is designed to help ensure that students from all backgrounds have access to a world-class UC San Diego education.
UC San Diego's annual Luau and Legends of Surfing Invitational has raised more than $12 million in funding for cancer research since it was established 31 years ago.
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