Fox’s vision allowed UCSD to become one of the greenest campuses in the nation. Source: UC San Diego http://mafox.ucsd.edu/bio/
SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – Marye Anne Fox, UC San Diego’s first woman chancellor, died Sunday at age 73, UCSD announced today.
Fox was UCSD’s seventh chancellor and led the university “during a historic era of extraordinary campus growth and through unprecedented financial challenges,” Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla said in a statement.
Under her leadership, UCSD completed a billion-dollar capital campaign, celebrated its 50th anniversary and expanded the campus to accommodate student growth and a billion-dollar research enterprise.
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