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From Philosophy to Pharma: Meet UC San Diego Skaggs School of Pharmacy Alum Courtney Shakowski

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Meet UC San Diego Skaggs School of Pharmacy alum Courtney Shakowski, ’11, who now works at Novo Nordisk as a medical liaison where she helps transform today’s research into tomorrow’s treatments.

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A Smarter Way for AI to Understand Text and Images

Technology & Engineering

A new method trains artificial intelligence systems to more reliably solve complex problems that require interpreting both text and images. In tests, AI models trained with this method outperformed others in solving math word problems containing images such as charts and diagrams.

Pictures of animals alongside a multiple-choice word problem.

Immunity Against Common Virus Leveraged Against Pancreatic Cancer

Health & Behavior

UC San Diego researchers have harnessed the body's immune response to a common virus to shrink pancreatic tumors, offering hope for a new cancer treatment approach.

Image shows a test tumor from a CMV-infected mouse treated with CMV peptides

How Does the Brain Control Its Own Blood Flow?

Science & Environment

Blood vessels in the brain are highly interconnected yet the mechanisms that regulate flow are not well studied. To learn more, UC San Diego Professor of Physics David formulated a mathematical model to predict the impact of a change in a single vessel on the flow through all the other vessels.

How Does the Brain Control Its Own Blood Flow?
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Our People, Our Stories, Our Impact

Take a deeper look into the remarkable stories of our changemakers and community-builders, our cutting-edge research, and the global influence of UC San Diego.

Campus & Community

From exciting athletics programs and campus events, to our latest contributions to cutting-edge research—UC San Diego is a vibrant community of creators and innovators, making a positive impact both in San Diego and beyond.

First-Year Triton Steps Into His Olympic Moment

Profiles

As the Milan Cortina Games get underway, a Revelle College first-year is balancing coursework at UC San Diego with elite alpine ski racing on the Olympic stage.

UC San Diego Announces Illustrious Alumni Award Recipients

Awards & Accolades

The University of California San Diego has announced its distinguished lineup of honorees for the 2026 Illustrious Alumni Awards — one of the university’s highest honors for alumni, celebrating extraordinary leadership, innovation and impact by Tritons around the world.

A First for Birch Aquarium: Little Blue Penguin Chick Reared by Its Parents

Campus News

Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego is celebrating another milestone in their Little Blue Penguin breeding program. For the first time, a penguin chick has been raised and reared by its penguin parents on habitat in Beyster Family Little Blue Penguins.

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