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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.