UC San Diego Executive Vice Chancellor Elizabeth H. Simmons and Robert Continetti, senior associate vice chancellor for Academic Affairs, with the 2025-26 UC San Diego Hellman fellows and previous awardees. The 26 junior faculty who received crucial funding this year comprise the largest cohort in UC San Diego history. (Credit: UC San Diego)

Celebrating its 30th year, the Hellman fellowship has supported thousands of junior faculty across UC’s 10 campuses. This crucial early backing has launched some truly stellar careers, allowing recipients to do the kind of life-changing work that results not only in tenure, but recognition and support from places like the MacArthur and Guggenheim Foundations, along with prestigious national academies in the arts, engineering, medicine and sciences.

The brainchild of Warren and Chris Hellman and their children, the program was endowed with a $125M gift from the Hellman Fellows Fund to support promising assistant professors who show capacity for great distinction in their chosen fields, from the arts and humanities to social sciences and STEM.

“Hellman fellowships have been instrumental in supporting thousands of our junior faculty as they become leaders in their fields, shaping scholarship across the arts, medicine and sciences,” said University of California Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs Katherine Newman. “30 years on, we can see clearly the enormous impact of the Hellman family’s gift not only to UC, but to the nation.  We are eternally grateful to the Hellmans and excited to witness the transformational research contributed by these fellows.”

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