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For the Love of Peanut Butter

Brittany Merrill Yeng '09, MS '10 takes on an American classic. This story was published in the Fall 2022 issue of UC San Diego Magazine.

Co-founders Brittany Merrill Yeng ’09, MS ’10, and Steve Yeng

RIMAC Renamed

RIMAC is renamed following a gift to scholar-athletes. This story was published in the Fall 2022 issue of UC San Diego Magazine.

Members of the Athletics Department, including coaches, cheerleaders, King Triton, as well as Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla and Athletic Director Earl W. Edwards, gather to celebrate the naming of LionTree Arena.

Critical Questions

Researchers study human milk, pregnancy and COVID-19. This story appeared in the Fall 2022 issue of UC San Diego Magazine.

Elizabeth Imada donated breast milk to the UC Health Milk Bank during the national baby formula shortage (top); Lars Bode, PhD, studies human milk and its impact on health and development (left) and Christina Chambers, PhD, MPH, focuses on the impact of environmental exposures during pregnancy, lactation and child health outcomes (right).

Next Generation

UC San Diego alumna Deniz Burnham '07 reaches for the stars as a NASA astronaut candidate.

UC San Diego alumna and NASA astronaut candidate Deniz Burnham

In the mid-1960s, Jorge Carrillo discovered a way out of the life of migrant farm work through a UC San Diego college readiness program. Later, he, his wife and two children graduated from Marshall College and have gone on to establish a scholarship endowment to help students in financial need.

Jorge Carrillo stands among the eucalyptus trees on campus.

A Survivor’s Story

At his Bar Mitzvah in 1980, a 13-year-old declared that he would one day write the story of his father’s Holocaust survival. It took 40 years for Joel Poremba ’89 to deliver on that promise.