USD Magazine Fall 2013

2012 April His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, the spiritual leader of Tibet, visits the University of San Diego as part of a joint symposium with UCSD and SDSU entitled, “Compassion Without

B uilding on g reatness Four state-of-the-art facilities, built at Alcalá Park in the past 10 years, gave alumni a place to call home, changed the landscape of learning and

enhanced the student experience, and added a diamond to help Torero Baseball shine.

Borders: Science, Peace and Ethics.”

2004 Degheri Alumni Center

2012 June

The University of San Diego captures the 2011-12 West Coast Conference (WCC) Commissioner’s Cup for the fifth consecutive year, a Conference first. The Commissioner’s Cup is awarded to the WCC member institution garnering the most success during conference play.

2007 Mother Rosalie Hill Hall

2013 September

USD inaugurates the Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering and welcomes Founding Dean Chell A. Roberts. The $20 million gift from USD Trustee and former Chair of the Board, Darlene

Marcos Shiley, honors her family’s dedication to education and pays tribute to her late husband and renowned engineer, Donald P. Shiley.

2009 Student Life Pavilion

“My husband was, first and foremost, an engineer,” she says.

2013 Fowler Park

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