The Alumni Association has named five UCSD graduates to be honored at its 31st Annual Awards for Excellence event, on Saturday, June 6.’
The honorees include Donald W. Murphy, the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center’s chief executive officer; Abbie Celniker, a renowned molecular biologist; Jeffrey Rabin, UCSD professor of mathematics and former co-director of the Algebraic Thinking Institute; Gary Curtis, a biomedical entrepreneur; and Wayne Kennedy, UCSD’s former vice chancellor of administration and the UC Office of the President’s former senior vice president of business and finance.
Ticket sales for the event, which is open to alumni and the general public, will raise funds for the alumni association’s endowed scholarship programs.’
The UCSD alumni award recipients will join other accomplished individuals who have received the award, such as Roger Revelle.