April 20, 2017
…Club and the event’s organizer. “Virtual reality is a multidisciplinary field, and a great medium for preserving the past. We wanted to bring together the subject matter experts, cognitive scientists, and engineers that could bring these stories to life.” The winning project, called “Little Connor and the Ore of the…
December 6, 2018
…Philanthropy Sparks Novel Research Organizations such as Hellman Fellows Fund and ARCS Foundation support young researchers Research at UC San Diego has the potential to impact everything from addressing global security to curing the world’s most devastating diseases, and new promising ideas are emerging every day. Driving the quest for…
January 17, 2019
…San Diego Cabinet and donating to the Campaign. Professor Gentry Patrick (back row, left), Marcus Boehm and Kimberley Phillips Boehm (front) join with PATHS students during a recent visit. The couple has donated to UC San Diego’s Black Alumni Scholarship Fund, as well as to fellowship programs at Brooklyn College.…
May 9, 2019
…usable products—including fertilizer for organic produce and biogas for electricity. Lemelson-MIT Prize student recipients Enid Partika and Will Tanaka in Roger’s Community Garden. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, if food waste was a country, it would be the third largest emitter of greenhouse gases…
June 10, 2021
…and Farrell each recently donated $1.5 million to support programmatic expansion of engineering and medicine on campus. A large collaborative research facility for engineering and medicine in the Jacobs School’s newest building, Franklin Antonio Hall, will be named in recognition of their generosity. The named Chien-Farrell Institute for Engineering in…
September 30, 2021
…campus, as well as donated to The Preuss School UC San Diego. Also recognizing the importance of masking, the university has taken a more conservative approach by continuing to require that all persons on campus wear a mask when indoors. Students, faculty and staff are recommended to use N-95 or…
October 14, 2021
…to most art commissioning organizations that put the primary burden for feasibility on the artist. We have encouraged their most ambitious ideas. Q. What behind-the-scenes anecdotes can you share about the creation of Do Ho Suh’s “Fallen Star” house? Gregoire: “Fallen Star” is a great example of a work that…
August 4, 2022
…the Illumina Corporate Foundation donated $973,000 for additional materials to bring the equipment into operation and set up two laboratories on the Scripps Oceanography campus. The Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine (CMBB) at Scripps focuses on research at the intersection of ocean sciences and human health. This support from…
May 2, 2022
…charged with processing and organizing his papers after they were donated to the Library’s Special Collections & Archives in 2013. EXCERPT FROM THE ARCHIVIST It was still baking hot. A traveling sun burned butterscotch through the towering eucalypti. A flock of ravens was wheeling high overhead in lazy circles, croaking…
August 28, 2012
…Bernard Osher Foundation has donated $500,000 to the University of California, San Diego, establishing an endowment to provide scholarships for students transferring from the California Community Colleges System. These funds will support a new scholarship award for high-achieving student parents who transfer to UC San Diego and have financial need.
