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A Commitment to the Future: Founders’ Pledge Launched

The new initiative allows entrepreneurs, equity holders and early investors to commit a portion of their anticipated equity gains to UC San Diego, with the ultimate goal of helping to address some of the world’s most pressing problems.

Fellowship Challenge Empowers Future Leaders at Rady

The importance of graduate fellowships cannot be overstated. With the goal of providing more access to advanced degrees at the Rady School of Management, Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla has established an inspiration challenge, matching gifts of $10,000 or more to the Rady School Graduate Fellowships Fund.

Firtel Family Eureka! Scholarship Honors Biology Professor

In honor of Distinguished Professor Emeritus Rick Firtel’s 80th birthday, the Firtel family has provided $32,500 to support a Eureka! Scholar each year for five years, with the potential to extend the scholarship support for an additional five years.

Gift Honors Efforts to Link Chemical and Nano Engineering

Invigorated with a $21 million gift from the Li family, UC San Diego’s newly named Aiiso Yufeng Li Family Department of Chemical and Nano Engineering is unique for its efforts to combine nano-scale discovery, nano-scale engineering and manufacturability.

Chipman Establishes Cognitive Science’s First Fellowship

The Susan E.F. Chipman and Robert G. Fitzgerald Graduate Fellowship Fund in Cognitive Science is the first of its kind in the department, which was the world’s first department established in cognitive science.

Helping Transfer Students Thrive in Science

The Transfer Student Research Experience (T-REx) program is supported partly through a donation made by the Patricia & Christopher Weil Family Foundation.

Researchers Honored as Prebys Research Heroes

The Conrad Prebys Foundation is providing $1.5 million in total to support high-risk, high-reward medical research at UC San Diego. Stephanie Fraley, Marygorret Obonyo and Daniela Valdez-Jasso have received grants of $500,000 each to support their health care and medical research.

Brian and Nancy Malk Donate to Economics, Naming Malk Hall

The gift will fuel the campus’s nationally ranked Department of Economics, which will be housed in Brian C. Malk Hall. Slated for completion in 2026 as part of UC San Diego’s Ridge Walk North Living and Learning Neighborhood, it will be located just west of Geisel Library.

Joan Jacobs, Beloved Philanthropist and Community Leader

Joan Klein Jacobs, a dedicated and visionary philanthropist, civic leader and patron of the arts, died on May 6. She was 91. Jacobs left a legacy of vast positive impact on UC San Diego, the region and around the globe. 

Alumni Kick Off Support for Triton Alumni and Welcome Center

Several UC San Diego alumni leaders have stepped up to support the project, including Taner Halıcıoğlu ’96, who has pledged $25 million to support the Triton Alumni and Welcome Center.

$1 Million Endowment Gift Supports Human Milk Symposium

The gift creates an endowment to support the annual Kohlberg Johnson Family Human Milk Institute Symposium, which brings together some of the world’s leading breastfeeding and human milk experts.

 

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