The concert hall of the Conrad Prebys Music Center.

The concert hall of the Conrad Prebys Music Center.

Philanthropy

Alumni and friends generously supported UC San Diego’s mission of exceptional teaching, research, service and patient care. Under Chancellor Marye Anne Fox’s leadership, the campus concluded a historic capital campaign, adding to the number of endowed chairs and support for academic programs and students. Philanthropy ensures that UC San Diego will continue to attract and retain stellar faculty and students.

  • Completion of $1 Billion Campaign: Under Fox’s leadership, the university successfully completed a seven-year, $1 billion campaign in June 2007.
  • Launch of Campaign to Support Students: In September 2009, UC San Diego launched Invent the Future: The UC San Diego Student Support Campaign to raise $50 million for undergraduate scholarships and graduates fellowships over a three-year period.
  • Highlights of Major Gifts to UC San Diego: Major contributions to the UC San Diego campus during the last seven years ensured that academic programs would advance in state-of-the art facilities. Endowed chairs help to support faculty in their scholarly research. Gifts during Fox’s tenure included those that resulted in the naming of schools and buildings and the establishment of research centers and endowed chairs for faculty. The gifts include:
    • Irwin and Joan Jacobs and family to build the Jacobs Medical Center.
    • Skaggs family to name the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.
    • Ernest and Evelyn Rady to name the Rady School of Management.
    • Denny Sanford to name the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine.
    • John Moores and Rebecca Moores to name the Moores Cancer Center.
    • Richard and Maria Sulpizio to name the Sulpizio Family Cardiovascular Center.
    • Conrad Prebys for the Prebys Music Center.
    • Jerry Swartz and the Swartz Foundation to establish and name the Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience.
    • Pauline Foster to establish the Stanley and Pauline Foster Endowed Chair and to support fellowships for MBA students at the Rady School of Management.
    • Ellen Revelle and family to establish the Roger Revelle Chair in Environmental Science at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
    • Audrey Geisel to establish the university’s first endowed librarian chair at the UC San Diego Libraries and to support the renovation of University House.
    • Tanya and Charles Brandes Foundation to the Rady School of Management to support MBA student fellowships.
    • Kavli Foundation for the Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind.
    • Von Liebig Foundation for innovative commercialization.
    • Darlene and Donald Shiley to expand the Shiley Eye Center and establish the Shiley Chair in Alzheimer’s Disease Research.
    • Richard and Rita Atkinson to establish the Rita L. Atkinson Graduate Fellowship Fund.
    • Steve and Lisa Altman for the planned Clinical and Translational Research Institute building.
    • Aggregate gifts of more than $2.3 million from more than 200 donors to fund the renovation and expansion of the Faculty Club.
    • Aggregate discretionary gifts from Chancellor’s Associates.