University of California, San Diego (UCSD)

The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) is a public land-grant research university in La Jolla, a coastal district of San Diego, California, and one of the ten general campuses of the University of California system, formally established on 18 November 1960 as a graduate-centred experimental campus that grew out of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.加州大学圣地亚哥分校（UCSD）是位于加利福尼亚州圣地亚哥拉霍亚沿海地区的公立赠地研究型大学，也是加州大学系统十所综合校区之一，于 1960 年 11 月 18 日正式成立，是由斯克里普斯海洋研究所发展而来的以研究生为中心的实验性校区。

Its founding is inseparable from the oceanographer Roger Revelle, who as director of Scripps campaigned through the 1950s to place a full University of California campus on the coastal mesa above the institution, and it admitted its first cohort of graduate students in physics, chemistry and earth sciences before welcoming 181 undergraduates in 1964.该校的创立与海洋学家罗杰·雷维尔密不可分，他作为斯克里普斯研究所所长在 20 世纪 50 年代奔走推动，促成了在研究所上方沿海台地建立完整的加州大学校区；学校先招收物理、化学与地球科学方向的首批研究生，随后于 1964 年迎来 181 名本科新生。

With 45,273 students enrolled in Fall 2024, more than 1,600 ladder-rank and clinical faculty, over 1.7 billion dollars in annual research funding and a placing of 81st in the QS World University Rankings 2027, UC San Diego is one of the largest and most research-intensive public universities in the United States.该校 2024 年秋季在校学生 45,273 人，拥有 1,600 余名常任轨与临床教师，年度科研经费超过 17 亿美元，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 81 位，是美国规模最大、科研最密集的公立大学之一。

History

• The university's institutional ancestor is the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, founded in 1903 as a marine research station at La Jolla and incorporated into the University of California in 1912, making it one of the oldest centres of ocean and earth science in the world.该校的机构前身是斯克里普斯海洋研究所，1903 年在拉霍亚作为海洋研究站创立，1912 年并入加州大学，是世界上最古老的海洋与地球科学研究中心之一。

• Roger Revelle, who directed Scripps from 1950 to 1964, led the drive for a campus at La Jolla, and in the winter of 1957 he staged a seaside reception for the University of California Regents, showing them three possible sites and persuading them with the panoramic ocean views.1950 至 1964 年出任斯克里普斯研究所所长的罗杰·雷维尔主导了在拉霍亚建立校区的努力，1957 年冬天他为加州大学董事会举办了一场海滨招待会，向其展示三处候选校址，并以开阔的海景说服了他们。

• The Regents endorsed the new campus two years later, in 1959, choosing the land north of Scripps over sites near Lake Murray and Balboa Park, and the project was provisionally named the University of California, La Jolla, before a local poll narrowly favoured the name San Diego.董事会于两年后的 1959 年批准建立新校区，选择斯克里普斯以北的土地而非默里湖或巴尔波亚公园一带，项目最初暂定名为加州大学拉霍亚校区，后因一项地方民调以微弱多数倾向圣地亚哥而定名。

• UC San Diego was officially founded on 18 November 1960 as a forward-looking experimental campus serving a few graduate students in physics, chemistry and earth sciences, with an emphasis on research and a deliberately small, unconventional curriculum.加州大学圣地亚哥分校于 1960 年 11 月 18 日正式成立，作为一所具有前瞻性的实验性校区，最初只招收物理、化学与地球科学方向的少数研究生，强调研究并刻意采用小型而非传统的课程体系。

• Besides Revelle, the circle often described as the university's founding fathers included the geophysicist Walter Munk, the marine biologist John Isaacs, the seismologist Gifford Ewing, the physicist Keith Brueckner and the chemist Harold Urey, though Munk himself called Revelle far and away the key person.除雷维尔外，常被称作该校奠基之父的一群学者还包括地球物理学家沃尔特·芒克、海洋生物学家约翰·艾萨克斯、地震学家吉福德·尤因、物理学家基思·布鲁克纳与化学家哈罗德·尤里，不过芒克本人称雷维尔是远为关键的人物。

• In 1958 Revelle recruited Harold Urey, the winner of the 1934 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, to teach chemistry on the new campus, and the presence of Urey and other prominent recruits attracted further faculty and led to the first permanent building, Urey Hall.1958 年雷维尔延揽 1934 年诺贝尔化学奖得主哈罗德·尤里到新校区讲授化学，尤里等知名学者的到来吸引了更多教师加盟，并促成了第一座永久性建筑尤里楼的落成。

• In 1961 the Regents named Herbert F. York, a physicist and former director of defence research and engineering, as the campus's first chancellor rather than Revelle, who was thought to have antagonised too many officials, and York served until 1964.1961 年，董事会任命物理学家、曾任国防研究与工程署署长的赫伯特·F·约克为首任校长，而非雷维尔，因为后者被认为树敌过多；约克一直任职到 1964 年。

• Among the distinguished scientists drawn to the young campus in its early years was Maria Goeppert Mayer, who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics and remains the second woman ever to win that award, working at UC San Diego from 1960.早年吸引到这座年轻校区的杰出科学家中包括玛丽亚·格佩特-梅耶，她分享了 1963 年诺贝尔物理学奖，至今仍是历史上第二位获得该奖的女性，自 1960 年起在加州大学圣地亚哥分校工作。

• The first undergraduates arrived in the fall of 1964, a class of 181 students who were treated much like graduate students and could choose from majors in biology, chemistry, earth sciences, English, mathematics, philosophy and physics.首批本科生于 1964 年秋季入学，共 181 人，他们受到的培养几乎与研究生无异，可从生物、化学、地球科学、英语、数学、哲学与物理等专业中选择。

• Revelle College, founded in 1964 as First College and renamed for the university's founder the following year, was the first of the residential colleges and introduced a demanding Renaissance education centred on a humanities sequence integrating history, literature and philosophy.雷维尔学院于 1964 年作为第一学院创立，次年以学校创始人命名，是首个住宿学院，推出了以融合历史、文学与哲学的人文序列课程为核心的严格文艺复兴式教育。

• John Muir College, founded in 1967 as Second College and named after the naturalist and conservationist John Muir, followed with a philosophy of self-sufficiency and individual choice and relatively flexible general-education requirements.约翰·缪尔学院于 1967 年作为第二学院创立，以博物学家与自然保护主义者约翰·缪尔命名，其理念是自立与个人选择，通识教育要求相对灵活。

• Thurgood Marshall College, founded in 1970 as Third College, was shaped by the civil-rights ferment of the era and by student activism such as that of the graduate student Angela Davis, and it was later named for the first African-American Supreme Court justice.瑟古德·马歇尔学院于 1970 年作为第三学院创立，其创办受到当时民权运动与研究生安吉拉·戴维斯等学生行动主义的影响，后来以美国首位非裔最高法院大法官命名。

• Earl Warren College, founded in 1974 as Fourth College, was named after the former Governor of California and Chief Justice of the United States and requires students to complete two programmes of concentration outside their major toward what it calls a life in balance.厄尔·沃伦学院于 1974 年作为第四学院创立，以前加州州长、美国首席大法官厄尔·沃伦命名，要求学生在主修之外完成两个专注方向，以追求其所谓平衡的人生。

• Eleanor Roosevelt College, founded in 1988 as Fifth College, is organised around a cross-cultural core sequence titled Making of the Modern World, carries a foreign-language requirement and encourages study abroad.埃莉诺·罗斯福学院于 1988 年作为第五学院创立，核心是名为现代世界的形成的跨文化课程序列，设有外语要求，并鼓励学生出国交流。

• In 1986 the university established the world's first department of cognitive science, and it created the Division of Social Sciences, reinforcing an interdisciplinary style that had been a hallmark since the experimental founding.1986 年该校建立了世界上第一个认知科学系，并设立社会科学部，进一步巩固了自实验性建校以来一以贯之的跨学科风格。

• In 1995 UC San Diego established the first department of bioengineering in the United States, and in the same period its central library was renamed the Geisel Library in honour of the children's author Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss.1995 年加州大学圣地亚哥分校建立了美国第一个生物工程系；同一时期，其中央图书馆更名为盖泽尔图书馆，以纪念儿童文学作家西奥多·盖泽尔，即人们熟知的苏斯博士。

• Sixth College was founded in 2001 with a focus on the historical and philosophical connections among culture, art and technology, becoming the sixth undergraduate college within four decades of the university's opening.第六学院创立于 2001 年，关注文化、艺术与技术之间的历史与哲学联系，成为该校开办四十年之际的第六个本科学院。

• Seventh College was formally established in 2019 and welcomed its first cohort in the fall of 2020 under the theme A Changing Planet, encouraging students to address global challenges such as the climate crisis and mass migration from interdisciplinary perspectives.第七学院于 2019 年正式设立，2020 年秋季迎来首批学生，主题为变化的星球，鼓励学生从跨学科视角应对气候危机与大规模移民等全球挑战。

• Eighth College, proposed in 2020 and enrolling its first students in the fall of 2023, adopted the theme Engagement and Community and occupies new residential buildings that can house about 2,000 undergraduates on the south-west side of the campus.第八学院于 2020 年提出、2023 年秋季迎来首批学生，主题为参与与社区，其新建的住宿楼可容纳约 2,000 名本科生，位于校区西南侧。

• Pradeep K. Khosla, an electrical and computer engineer, became the eighth chancellor of UC San Diego on 1 August 2012 and has since led the university's first strategic plan and a capital programme of more than 12 billion dollars.电气与计算机工程师普拉迪普·K·科斯拉于 2012 年 8 月 1 日就任加州大学圣地亚哥分校第八任校长，此后主导了该校首份战略规划以及逾 120 亿美元的基本建设计划。

• In 2024 UC San Diego Athletics completed its transition to full NCAA Division I eligibility, marking the university's arrival at the highest level of American collegiate sport more than six decades after its founding.2024 年，加州大学圣地亚哥分校体育部完成向 NCAA 一级联赛正式资格的过渡，标志着该校在创办六十余年后跻身美国大学体育的最高层级。

Academics

• UC San Diego is organised into twelve academic divisions and professional schools, offers more than 140 undergraduate majors and awards degrees through eight undergraduate residential colleges that each set their own general-education requirements.加州大学圣地亚哥分校由 12 个学术部门与专业学院组成，开设 140 多个本科专业，并通过 8 个各设通识教育要求的本科学院授予学位。

• Its divisions include the School of Arts and Humanities, the School of Social Sciences, the School of Biological Sciences, the School of Physical Sciences and the Jacobs School of Engineering, alongside Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Halicioglu Data Science Institute.其下属部门包括艺术与人文学院、社会科学学院、生物科学学院、物理科学学院与雅各布斯工程学院，此外还有斯克里普斯海洋研究所与哈利奇奥卢数据科学研究所。

• Its professional schools comprise the School of Medicine, the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science, the Rady School of Management and the School of Global Policy and Strategy.其专业学院包括医学院、斯卡格斯药学院与制药科学学院、赫伯特·沃特海姆公共卫生与人类长寿科学学院、雷迪管理学院以及全球政策与战略学院。

• As of Fall 2024 the university counted 3,685 faculty in total, of whom 1,732 were ladder-rank professors, supported by 1,582 clinical and in-residence faculty and 1,254 postdoctoral scholars.截至 2024 年秋季，该校共有教师 3,685 人，其中常任轨教授 1,732 人，另有临床与驻校教师 1,582 人与博士后学者 1,254 人。

• Current and emeriti faculty hold 169 memberships in the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Medicine, and 219 faculty have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.现任与荣休教师共拥有 169 个美国国家科学院、国家工程院与国家医学院的院士席位，另有 219 位教师当选美国科学促进会会士。

• Total enrolment in Fall 2024 stood at 45,273 students, made up of 34,955 undergraduates and 9,872 graduate and professional students, including 3,814 doctoral candidates and 4,315 master's students.2024 年秋季全校共有学生 45,273 人，其中本科生 34,955 人、研究生与专业学位学生 9,872 人，后者包含 3,814 名博士候选人以及 4,315 名硕士生。

• The campus attracted more than 1.7 billion dollars in sponsored research funding in 2025 and reported annual revenues of 9.6 billion dollars, making it one of the largest research enterprises in American higher education.该校 2025 年获得超过 17 亿美元的外部资助科研经费，年度总收入达 96 亿美元，是美国高等教育中规模最大的科研体系之一。

• Sixteen Nobel laureates have taught at UC San Diego, among them the founding chemists Harold Urey and Maria Goeppert Mayer and the biologist Renato Dulbecco, who shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.曾有 16 位诺贝尔奖得主在加州大学圣地亚哥分校任教，其中包括建校初期的化学家哈罗德·尤里与玛丽亚·格佩特-梅耶，以及分享 1975 年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖的生物学家雷纳托·杜尔贝科。

• Scripps Institution of Oceanography, an academic division of the university, became internationally known for the Keeling Curve, the record of atmospheric carbon dioxide begun by the geochemist Charles David Keeling in 1958 that underpins modern climate science.作为该校学术部门的斯克里普斯海洋研究所因基林曲线而享誉国际，这条由地球化学家查尔斯·戴维·基林于 1958 年开始记录的大气二氧化碳曲线奠定了现代气候科学的基础。

• The Jacobs School of Engineering, named after the Qualcomm co-founder Irwin Jacobs, is one of the university's largest divisions and hosts research in computing, bioengineering, structural engineering and the applied physical sciences.以高通公司联合创始人欧文·雅各布斯命名的雅各布斯工程学院是该校规模最大的部门之一，其研究涵盖计算、生物工程、结构工程与应用物理科学等领域。

• UC San Diego maintains close research ties with the nearby Salk Institute for Biological Studies and Scripps Research, forming with them one of the densest concentrations of biomedical research institutions in the world.加州大学圣地亚哥分校与邻近的索尔克生物研究所和斯克里普斯研究所保持密切的科研合作，共同构成全球生物医学研究机构最密集的区域之一。

• In 1977 the campus developed and released the UCSD Pascal programming language, an early and influential system that helped popularise portable software and the p-code virtual machine.1977 年，该校开发并发布了 UCSD Pascal 程序设计语言，这一早期而颇具影响力的系统推动了可移植软件与 p-code 虚拟机的普及。

• UC San Diego Health, the region's only academic health system, operates the School of Medicine and the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and includes one of only two Level I adult trauma centres in San Diego County and the county's only regional burn centre.加州大学圣地亚哥分校医疗中心是该地区唯一的学术医疗系统，运营医学院与斯卡格斯药学院，并设有圣地亚哥县仅有的两个一级成人创伤中心之一以及全县唯一的区域烧伤中心。

• The Preuss School, a charter school on campus founded to prepare low-income and first-generation students for university, is run by the university as a demonstration of its commitment to educational access.校内的普莱斯学校是一所特许学校，旨在帮助低收入与家庭第一代大学生升学，由大学运营，以体现其对教育机会公平的承诺。

• The university received 136,729 freshman applications for Fall 2025 and, with a student-to-faculty ratio of about 19 to 1, is among the most applied-to public universities in the United States.该校 2025 年秋季共收到 136,729 份本科新生申请，师生比约为 19 比 1，是美国申请人数最多的公立大学之一。

• In 2024 the university conferred 8,923 bachelor's degrees, 2,419 master's degrees, 631 doctorates and 209 professional degrees in medicine and pharmacy, reflecting its heavy emphasis on graduate and health-science training.2024 年该校授予学士学位 8,923 个、硕士学位 2,419 个、博士学位 631 个，以及 209 个医学与药学专业学位，体现其对研究生教育与健康科学培养的高度重视。

Campus

• UC San Diego occupies a 1,200-acre main campus on the coastal mesa at La Jolla, overlooking the Pacific Ocean about 13 miles north of downtown San Diego and adjoining the Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve.加州大学圣地亚哥分校主校区位于拉霍亚的沿海台地，占地约 1,200 英亩，俯瞰太平洋，距圣地亚哥市中心约 13 英里，紧邻托里松州立自然保护区。

• The main campus is centred on eight undergraduate residential colleges, each with its own provost, dining halls and residence halls, arranged around the Geisel Library and served by a network of campus shuttles.主校区以 8 个本科学院为核心，各学院自设院长、食堂与宿舍，围绕盖泽尔图书馆布局，并由校园班车网络连接。

• Geisel Library, the university's best-known building, was designed by William Pereira in a brutalist, futuristic style, opened in 1970 and was renamed in 1995 after Theodor Geisel, whose widow Audrey donated to the library.盖泽尔图书馆是该校最知名的建筑，由威廉·佩雷拉以粗野主义的未来风格设计，1970 年落成，1995 年以西奥多·盖泽尔之名重新命名，其遗孀奥黛丽曾向图书馆捐款。

• The Conrad Prebys Music Center, opened in 2009 with a donation from the San Diego builder Conrad Prebys, houses a 400-seat concert hall regarded as an architectural crown jewel and the home of the university's music department.康拉德·普雷比斯音乐中心于 2009 年在圣地亚哥建筑商康拉德·普雷比斯的捐赠下落成，内有一座被视为建筑明珠、可容纳 400 人的音乐厅，是大学音乐系所在地。

• Scripps Institution of Oceanography occupies its own coastal campus beside the main campus at La Jolla Shores, with research piers, ocean-going vessels and laboratories that support marine and earth science.斯克里普斯海洋研究所拥有独立的海滨校区，位于拉霍亚海岸主校区旁，设有研究码头、海洋考察船与实验室，为海洋与地球科学提供支撑。

• UC San Diego Health maintains clinical campuses at Hillcrest and La Jolla, including the Jacobs Medical Center, which opened in 2016 and serves as the region's principal academic medical centre.加州大学圣地亚哥分校医疗中心在希尔克雷斯特与拉霍亚设有临床院区，其中包括 2016 年启用的雅各布斯医疗中心，作为该地区主要的学术医疗中心。

• The university has completed 58 LEED-certified buildings and renovations, including 11 at the platinum level, reflecting a long-standing commitment to environmental sustainability in campus construction.该校已完成 58 座获 LEED 认证的建筑与改造工程，其中 11 座达到铂金级，体现其在校园建设中长期坚持的环境可持续理念。

• A chain of pedestrian malls, including Library Walk, links the colleges with the Geisel Library and the Price Center, the campus's main student union and dining complex named after the retailer Sol Price.由图书馆步道等组成的步行街网络把各学院与盖泽尔图书馆、普莱斯中心连通，后者是以零售商索尔·普莱斯命名的校内主要学生会与餐饮综合体。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 UC San Diego is placed 81st in the world, keeping it among the leading public research universities of the United States.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，加州大学圣地亚哥分校位列世界第 81 位，继续稳居美国顶尖公立研究型大学之列。

• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 places the campus 37th in the world, its highest position among the four global league tables.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将该校列为世界第 37 位，是其在四大全球榜单中的最高名次。

• The Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026 ranks UC San Diego 20th in the world and 4th among public universities in the United States, reflecting the strength of its research output.2026 年世界大学学术排名将该校列为世界第 20 位、美国公立大学第 4 位，体现其科研产出的实力。

• The U.S. News Best Global Universities edition of 2026-2027 ranks the campus 23rd in the world, and U.S. News has placed it among the top ten public universities in the nation for more than a decade.2026 至 2027 年版美国新闻与世界报道最佳全球大学排名将其列为世界第 23 位，而美国新闻与世界报道已连续十多年将其列为全美公立大学前十。

• The OpenAlex database attributes 404,833 works to UC San Diego with 57,750,493 citations, one of the largest and most cited research corpora of any university in the world.OpenAlex 数据库为加州大学圣地亚哥分校收录 404,833 篇成果、被引 57,750,493 次，是世界上体量最大、引用最多的大学科研产出之一。

• Sixteen Nobel laureates have taught at UC San Diego, and its faculty or alumni have also won the Fields Medal, the National Medal of Science and the Breakthrough Prize in the physical and life sciences.曾有 16 位诺贝尔奖得主在该校任教，其教师或校友还曾获得菲尔兹奖、美国国家科学奖章以及物理与生命科学领域的突破奖。

• In the Nature Index 2024 Research Leaders list UC San Diego was the fifth most prolific producer of scientific journal articles among all United States public universities.在 2024 年自然指数科研领导者榜单中，加州大学圣地亚哥分校在全部美国公立大学中科研论文产出位列第五。

• Washington Monthly has repeatedly ranked the campus first in the nation among public universities for contributions to research and social mobility, while Forbes places it among the top public institutions.《华盛顿月刊》多次将该校列为全美公立大学在研究贡献与社会流动性方面的第一名，而《福布斯》也将其列于顶尖公立院校之列。

• In the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2024 the campus ranked within the global top 20 in several fields, including biological sciences, and it is a member of the Association of American Universities.在 2024 年 QS 世界大学学科排名中，该校在生物科学等多个领域进入全球前 20，并且是美国大学协会成员。

Student life

• UC San Diego's athletic teams are known as the Tritons, with King Triton as the mascot, and the university's colours are blue and gold, adopted as the campus grew during the 1960s.加州大学圣地亚哥分校的运动队以特里同海神之子为名，吉祥物为海神特里同王，校色为蓝与金，随 20 世纪 60 年代校区的发展而确立。

• The university does not maintain a motto of its own, but as a campus of the University of California it shares the system's motto Fiat Lux, or Let there be light, printed on the UC seal.该校没有单独设立校训，但作为加州大学的一个校区，与全系统共用校训 Fiat Lux（要有光），该语镌刻在加州大学校徽之上。

• The Sun God Festival, an annual spring music and arts festival organised by students and held beside the Sun God statue, has been a campus tradition since 1983 and once drew tens of thousands of attendees.太阳神节是由学生组织、在太阳神雕像旁举行的年度春季音乐与艺术节，自 1983 年起成为校园传统，曾吸引数万人参加。

• The Sun God, a large winged sculpture by the French artist Niki de Saint Phalle, is part of the Stuart Collection of site-specific public art, which has placed more than twenty commissioned works across the campus since 1981.太阳神是法国艺术家妮基·德·圣法勒创作的大型带翼雕塑，属于斯图尔特收藏这一场域特定公共艺术项目，该项目自 1981 年以来在校内安置了二十多件委托作品。

• Students run more than 500 organisations and clubs, ranging from academic societies and cultural associations to club sports and performance groups, coordinated by the Associated Students of UC San Diego.学生运营着 500 多个组织与社团，涵盖学术团体、文化协会、体育俱乐部与表演团体，由加州大学圣地亚哥分校学生联合会统筹。

• About 40 percent of students live on campus in the eight residential colleges, and although Greek life involves roughly a fifth of students, the college system remains the main focus of undergraduate identity and social life.约 40% 的学生住在八个本科学院的校内宿舍；尽管约五分之一的学生参与希腊式社团生活，学院体系仍是本科生身份认同与社交生活的核心。

• Since moving to NCAA Division I, UC San Diego fields more than twenty varsity teams in sports from basketball and baseball to water polo and rowing, competing in the Big West Conference and the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation.自升入 NCAA 一级联赛以来，加州大学圣地亚哥分校组建了二十多支校队，涵盖篮球、棒球、水球与赛艇等项目，参加大西部联盟及山地太平洋体育联合会。

• The new Triton Center, planned as a campus gateway, brings together student services, health and wellness facilities and arts spaces, while beach culture and access to the Pacific shape a distinctly outdoor student lifestyle.新落成的特里同中心作为校园门户，整合学生服务、健康与艺术空间；而海滩文化与临太平洋的地理位置，则塑造出一种以户外为特色的学生生活方式。

Notable people

• Roger Revelle, the oceanographer who directed Scripps Institution of Oceanography and drove the campaign to found the campus, was honoured in 1990 with the National Medal of Science and is commemorated in Revelle College.罗杰·雷维尔是领导斯克里普斯海洋研究所并推动创立本校的海洋学家，1990 年获颁美国国家科学奖章，雷维尔学院即以他命名。

• Harold Urey, awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of deuterium, was recruited to the young campus in 1958 and became one of its founding faculty, with the first permanent building named Urey Hall.因发现氘而获得 1934 年诺贝尔化学奖的哈罗德·尤里，于 1958 年被延揽至这座年轻校区，成为建校教师之一，第一座永久性建筑即以尤里楼命名。

• Maria Goeppert Mayer shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics for the nuclear shell model and was one of the first women to become a full professor at the university, teaching there from 1960.玛丽亚·格佩特-梅耶因核壳层模型分享 1963 年诺贝尔物理学奖，是该校最早获得正教授职位的女性之一，自 1960 年起在此任教。

• Renato Dulbecco, a founding faculty member of the School of Medicine, shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work on the interaction between tumour viruses and cells.医学院建校教师雷纳托·杜尔贝科因研究肿瘤病毒与细胞的相互作用，分享了 1975 年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖。

• Susumu Tonegawa, who earned his doctorate at UC San Diego in 1968, received the 1987 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the genetic principle behind the generation of antibody diversity.1968 年在加州大学圣地亚哥分校取得博士学位的利根川进，因发现抗体多样性生成的遗传学原理而获得 1987 年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖。

• Michael Freedman, a professor of mathematics at the campus, was awarded the Fields Medal in 1986 for his work on the topology of four-dimensional manifolds.该校数学教授麦可·弗里德曼因在四维流形拓扑学方面的研究，于 1986 年获得菲尔兹奖。

• J. Craig Venter, an alumnus and later a researcher, helped sequence the human genome, founded the J. Craig Venter Institute and received the National Medal of Science in 2009.校友、此后亦在该校从事研究的克莱格·凡特参与人类基因组测序，创办了凡特研究所，并于 2009 年获得美国国家科学奖章。

• Irwin Jacobs, co-founder of the wireless technology company Qualcomm, was a professor and dean of engineering at UC San Diego, and the Jacobs School of Engineering and Jacobs Medical Center carry his and his wife Joan's name.无线技术公司高通联合创始人欧文·雅各布斯曾任加州大学圣地亚哥分校教授与工程学院院长，雅各布斯工程学院与雅各布斯医疗中心均以他及妻子琼之名命名。

• Khaled Hosseini, author of the best-selling novels The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, graduated from the UC San Diego School of Medicine in 2009.畅销小说追风筝的人与灿烂千阳的作者卡勒德·胡赛尼，2009 年毕业于加州大学圣地亚哥分校医学院。

• Angela Davis, the political activist, scholar and writer, studied at UC San Diego, where she took her doctorate in philosophy, and her student activism influenced the naming of Thurgood Marshall College.政治活动家、学者与作家安吉拉·戴维斯曾就读加州大学圣地亚哥分校并在此取得哲学博士学位，她的学生行动主义影响了瑟古德·马歇尔学院的命名。

• Nick Woodman, founder and chief executive of the action-camera company GoPro, is an alumnus, as is Alicia Garza, a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement.运动相机公司 GoPro 创始人兼首席执行官尼克·伍德曼是该校校友，黑人的命也是命运动联合创始人艾丽西亚·加尔萨也是校友。

• Kate Rubins, a NASA astronaut who in 2016 became the first person to sequence DNA in space, holds a doctorate from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, while the television writer and producer Mike Judge is also an alumnus.美国宇航局宇航员凯特·鲁宾斯于 2016 年成为首位在太空完成 DNA 测序的人，拥有斯克里普斯海洋研究所博士学位；电视剧编剧与制片人迈克·贾吉也是该校校友。