| Alumni Publications | |
- Alumni Online Community connects former UCSD students all over the country. There are chat rooms and postings available on many different topics.
- UCSD Alumni Newspaper is published quarterly and updates UCSD alumni on current events at UCSD and upcoming alumni gatherings.
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| Major Alumni Events | |
- Homecoming revolves around a basketball game, and there are various concerts and booths open to students and alumni.
- Open House is annually held in April, when UCSD shows off its best students, faculty, facilities, and alumni. There are concerts, speakers, and events all day long.
- Summer family picnic is an all afternoon BBQ and picnic for faculty, staff, current students, and alumni, which is held annually.
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| Alumni Services | |
- Affinity cards
- Alumni directory
- Career advising
- Graduate school advising
- Job fairs
- Job listings
- Locator services
- Medical and life insurance
- Networking programs
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| Famous Alumni | |
- Walter Munk (Class of '47) – oceanographer
- Greg Benford (Class of '67) – author
- Wolfgang Berger (Class of '68) – top paleoceanographer
- Susumu Tonegawa (Class of '68) – Nobel Prize winner in medicine
- Zachary Fisk (Class of '69) – condensed matter physicist, award winner
- John Shoven (Class of '69) – dean of Stanford University's School of Humanities and Sciences
- Laurel Wilkening (Class of '70) – chancellor of UC Irvine
- John Slaughter (Class of '71) – president emeritus, Occidental College
- Vernor Vinge (Class of '71) – author
- David Goeddel (Class of '72) – pharmaceutical scientist
- David Shaw (Class of '72) – founder of Juno Online Services
- Craig Venter (Class of '72) – president of Celera Genomics, first firm to decode the human genome
- Bill Atkinson (Class of '74) – co-developer for Macintosh
- Kim Stanley Robinson (Class of '74) – author
- Guy "Bud" Tribble (Class of '75) – principal architect of original Macintosh computer
- James Avery (Class of '76) – actor, Uncle Phil on the "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air"
- Nancy Holder (Class of '76) – author
- Steve Peace (Class of '76) – California state senator in the 40th Senate District and producer of the cult film "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes"
- Al Zollar (Class of '76) – President and CEO, Lotus Technologies
- Sandra Dijkstra (Class of '77) – literary agent for Amy Tan, Susan Faludi, and Le Ly Hayslip
- Brian Druker (Class of '77) – oncologist, developed new drug for leukemia
- Captain Eleanor "Connie" Mariano (Class of '77) – first woman to be physician to the U.S. president
- Raymon Feist (Class of '77) – author
- Nathan East (Class of '78) – bassist in the Eric Clapton Band, performed/wrote songs
- Abby Leibman (Class of '78) – co-founder and CEO, California Women's Law Center
- Greg Papadopoulos (Class of '79) – vice president, Sun Microsystems
- Tim Roemer (Class of '79) – five-term Democratic congressman, 3rd Congressional District, Indiana
- Mark Allen (Class of '80) – six-time Ironman, Triathlon World Champion
- Bencio Del Toro (Class of '80) – actor
- David Brin (Class of '81) – author
- George DeVries (Class of '84) – president and CEO, American Specialty Health Plans
- Carol Becker (Class of '85) – dean of faculty, School of Art Institute of Chicago
- Michael Greif (Class of '85) – director of "Rent"
- Mike Judge (Class of '85) – writer/director/producer of TV and motion pictures including "Beavis and Butthead" and "King of the Hill"
- Paul Bender (Class of '88) – vice president, Qualcomm; inventor who helped reduce the cost of cell phones
- Michael Robertson (Class of '90) – founder of MP3.com
- John Dobak (Class of '92) – inventor, holds 12 patents for medical devices
- Dylan Voeller (Class of '03) – musician
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