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Our team is a tightly knit family of student-athletes who share their passion for tennis and competition. The UC San Diego Club Tennis team recently won the 2025 Southern California Tennis on Campus Sectionals, coming out on top against 28 other teams for the second year in a row! And we are on track for a great performance at the United States Tennis Association National Championships! We are proud to be a part of the UC San Diego community and extremely appreciative of the teammates, friends, alumni, family and loved ones who offer their support.

The Teaching and Learning Commons is a vital resource at the heart of our academic community, empowering all Tritons to thrive academically and beyond the classroom.

With a commitment to academic excellence and lifelong learning and success, the Commons offers a wide array of essential services, including:

• Peer to Peer Tutoring
  Improve performance in challenging courses and foster active student involvement.
• Writing Support
  Guidance that hones writing skills for academic and professional success.
• Experiential Learning
  Resources and workshops designed to equip students for their careers and to engage in life-changing internship experiences.

In just one academic year, the Commons has facilitated over 200,000 student and instructor appointments, helping learners build confidence, master challenging subjects and prepare for successful futures. Your generous gift today ensures that all students continue to access these transformative opportunities.

Together, we can make a lasting impact on their academic and lifelong journeys. Join us in making a difference. Invest in student success this Giving Day — your support matters!

Advancing HIV Science and Equity Amid Funding Challenges

At UC San Diego’s HIV Institute, we are steadfast in our mission to advance science and care in the fight against HIV. Through groundbreaking research, interdisciplinary collaboration, and a deep commitment to community, we strive to end the HIV epidemic and improve health outcomes for all.

The Current Funding Landscape

Recent developments have introduced significant challenges to HIV/AIDS research funding. Substantial cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) are proposed, potentially reducing its discretionary budget by over 30%. This includes proposed reductions in funding for HIV/AIDS programs, which could impact research, prevention, and treatment efforts nationwide. Additionally, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has terminated funding for numerous HIV-related research grants. These cuts have raised concerns among scientists about the potential reversal of decades of progress in HIV prevention and treatment.

An advocate, a supporter, a navigator and a trusted friend — the Hub Basic Needs Center is all of these and more for undergraduate and graduate students who need a helping hand at a critical time. The Hub offers a comprehensive support system, providing immediate crisis intervention services and linking students to long-term resources that support self-sufficiency.

Our goal is to ensure all students have enough to eat, a safe place to sleep and the capacity to focus on their education without undue financial stress.Equitably minimizing basic needs challenges allows all Tritons to flourish both academically and personally. Your gift to The Hub - Basic Needs Initiatives fund will help provide students with nutritious, no-cost food, temporary emergency housing, and/or financial crisis support, ensuring they have the resources to focus on their education.

Gifts of any size make a meaningful impact. Below are just a few examples of how your generosity and the collective support of the Triton community can help students facing basic needs challenges:

• $50 could enable the Triton Food Pantry to provide 100 meals to students experiencing food security challenges.
• $75 could provide diapers, baby wipes and other personal care items to a student with dependents for one month.
• $100 could provide a student with a grocery card and/or triton cash to meet their urgent food security needs for one month.
• Seven gifts of $250 could provide up to 30 days of on-campus emergency housing for a student facing unstable or unsafe living conditions.
• Four gifts of $500 could fund a Basic Needs Emergency Grant, providing critical financial support to a student facing acute, unexpected hardships.

Make a gift to support The Hub - Basic Needs Initiatives today!

The Preuss School UC San Diego is a unique charter middle and high school for low-income students who strive to become the first in their families to graduate from college. Located on the UC San Diego campus, our students come from throughout San Diego County to take advantage of an environment that encourages intellectual risk-taking while offering an array of academic supports.

Our graduates are consistently accepted to four-year colleges and universities at a rate of more than 90 percent, and almost 100 percent are going on to some form of higher education. Yet we do more than prepare our students for higher education. We provide them with the skills necessary to effect change in society and help transform communities here in San Diego and throughout the world.

Will you make a gift in support the Preuss School’s Opportunity Fund today? Your gift on Triton Giving Day provides a transformational education, whether that’s purchasing new technology for the classroom, providing transportation for field trips, paying college application fees, or sending scholars to summer camps, and so much more!

The UCSD Guardian, UC San Diego's premier, award-winning print publication, is asking for your support today.

For over 50 years, The Guardian has been a trusted source of transparent and investigative student journalism, serving both the UC San Diego and broader San Diego communities. Created and driven by students, our team of over 150 passionate journalists are dedicated to delivering diverse perspectives while adapting to the ever-evolving communications landscape.

As a student-led, independent news organization, we face challenges in maintaining our print publication. Limited resources have forced us to reduce our printing schedule, and without additional support we may no longer be able to produce the high-quality, transparent, ethical journalism that we aspire to. With your support, we can continue providing free access to our work, compensate our editors fairly, cover operational and printing costs and ensure that The Guardian can serve the Triton community.

Make a gift to the UCSD Guardian today to ensure the next generation of rigorous student journalism at UC San Diego.

We operate without a faculty advisor or formal journalism program, but we've made incredible strides through teamwork, innovation and dedication. This year alone, we've nearly doubled our staff, implemented new processes to improve our reporting, and expanded our reach to cover a broader range of stories.

We're committed to preserving journalism at UC San Diego, and with your help, we can continue to thrive. Join us in supporting the next generation of journalists by making a gift today!

If you would like to learn more about The Guardian, contact: editor@ucsdguardian.org.

Town & Gown seeks to integrate and engage the local community in the life of UC San Diego, developing informed members who advocate for and strengthen our university through their support for student scholarships. 

Town & Gown Scholarship awardees are selected on the basis of four criteria: a high grade point average (usually above 3.80), volunteer community involvement, a career goal that offers service to others, and high financial need. The Town & Gown Scholarship Committee reviews all qualified applications and conducts in-person interviews with the finalists. The one-year, one-time awards are $6,000 and typically awarded in May or June for the upcoming academic year. 

One of the most gratifying qualities of Town & Gown is the opportunity to change aspiring students’ lives through the awarding of scholarships. Town & Gown scholars are exemplary members of the Triton family and represent the next generation of leaders, innovators and decision-makers. We continue to follow their careers with excitement and pride. 

Please join us with a gift today to empower the next generation of scholars and changemakers.

The UC San Diego Triathlon Team was founded in 1998 and has grown to 50+ athletes. The team competes in Sprint and Olympic-distance races throughout the spring and summer against other schools in the West Coast Collegiate Triathlon Conference (WCCTC).

Historically, the Tritons have been extremely successful at the regional and national levels and we could not have done so without the foundation of so many who have come before us as well as the dedication of our student board and coaching staff.

We are also proud to host one of the most prestigious competitions in the sport every year, the Tritonman. While competition drives us, community is also very important to us and we strive to make the sport more accessible to the student body at large.

At the center of our campus, we are building the first-ever Triton Alumni and Welcome Center as a site for journeys home. A site for launching new Triton journeys.

Our grand vision is to create a space where stories begin, where your legacy is shared and where Tritons of all ages come together. The Triton Alumni and Welcome Center will feature a lounge, library, hoteling space and meeting rooms and other spaces for alumni to socialize, work and gather. It will also serve as a hub for introducing prospective students, families and visitors to UC San Diego. Together, these will provide a gathering place for the Triton community to contemplate, celebrate and nurture their network as they connect with faculty and staff, mentor students, honor UC San Diego’s history and plan for its future.

Make a gift to support the Triton Alumni and Welcome Center today!

Triton Athletics is in an era of growth and expansion.

Our athletic teams play in NCAA Division I, with most in the Big West Conference. As we compete at the highest level of intercollegiate athletics, additional resources for our sports programs, including scholarships, up-to-date equipment and state-of-the-art facilities will ensure our scholar-athletes’ success. Additional funding will allow scholar-athletes to travel to elite Division I competitions.

More than ever, Triton Athletics needs loyal partners who are committed to the success of our scholar-athletes as they reinforce the Triton legacy of academic and athletic excellence.

Make a gift today!

Join fellow alumni, donors, fans and friends in supporting the baseball program with a gift to the Baseball Excellence Fund. Your support is critical for our team’s success and is in support of Head Coach Eric Newman’s vision for the baseball program. Sport excellence funds provide additional resources for scholar-athletes to optimize their holistic experience at UC San Diego.

Funds are allocated at the discretion of head coaches and can be used for program enhancements, such as equipment, nutrition, travel and more. We are committed to providing our scholar-athletes, coaches and support staff the very best resources to excel. They invest countless hours building high-caliber programs and representing UC San Diego with pride. The financial support provided by donors makes these experiences possible.

Make a gift now to impact the lives of our Triton scholar-athletes!

With 51% of undergraduate students experiencing some degree of food insecurity, the Triton community has established, and actively supports, a spectrum of food resources, including the Triton Food Pantry.

Each year, the Triton Food Pantry provides fresh produce, canned goods and other groceries to over 5,000 students across UC San Diego’s eight colleges and five graduate schools.

Our goals are to ensure that every student has enough energy to get through the day and that no student ever has to give up a single meal for any reason.

Both visible and discreet, the Triton Food Pantry not only provides undergraduate and graduate students a dignified way to access no-cost foods, but also serves as a gateway to the broader range of resources offered by The Hub Basic Needs Center.

Your gift today will help stock the pantry with nutritious, culturally reflective foods, providing students with the essential fuel they need to support their physical health, mental well-being, and academic success.