Research
UC San Diego is a hub for research excellence fueling discoveries that benefit our world – from biomedical breakthroughs to entrepreneurial innovation, and from creative advances to scientific progress. Your gift enables changemakers across campus to pursue groundbreaking research with the potential to improve lives here in San Diego and far beyond.
Featured Funds
Research Innovation Fund
Research is at the core of scientific advances that are critical to society – from vaccines to energy storage and from wildfire monitoring to artificial intelligence. Your support spurs innovative research across disciplines and enables high-risk, high-return projects with the potential to improve quality of life for people in San Diego, across the country, and around the world.
GIVE NOWGraduate Fellowships
Whether they are engaging in laboratory research, mentoring undergraduates or pursuing innovative ideas, graduate students are an integral part of our campus. Your gift ensures these future leaders continue to receive the support they need to change our world for the better.
GIVE NOWOther Ways to Support Research at UC San Diego
Endowed Faculty Chairs
Endowed chairs provide permanent and sustained support for faculty with annual funding for chair-holders’ scholarly activities, salaries, graduate fellowships and more. Endowed chairs are one of the highest recognitions that can be awarded to faculty, and — now more than ever — they are vital to recruiting, retaining and honoring top minds at UC San Diego.
To learn more about establishing an endowed chair or if you would like to make a gift to an existing endowed chair, please contact the Office of Advancement at giving@ucsd.edu or (858) 534-1610.
Schools and Colleges
UC San Diego’s 12 academic schools and eight undergraduate colleges are committed to tackling big ideas. Your support empowers faculty, researchers and students to dream, discover and ultimately transform our world.
Explore your options for investing in the groundbreaking work our schools and colleges do.
Search for Funds
Now more than ever, your support makes a difference as we work to advance science and research, entrepreneurship and innovation, education and accessibility, and arts and culture.
Search for a fund that speaks to your passion and make an impact today.