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32 THE CAMINO WILL PROVIDE In the summer of 2024, a group of 22 USD alumni and friends traversed the Portuguese path of the Camino de Santiago. Dubbed the Traveling Toreros, all members of the group had unique intentions for their journey.

28 GROWING A LEGACY OF STEM AT USD Darlene Marcos Shiley sat down with University of San Diego Magazine to reflect on her life with her late husband, Donald, her history of giving to USD and the reasons behind her record-setting $75 million gift to establish the Shiley STEM Initiative on campus.

On the Cover Magenta and green aurora borealis emanating from Earth’s atmosphere is framed through a window of the Crew Dragon Endeavor spacecraft in this awe-inspiring image captured by alumnus Matthew Dominick ’05 (BS/BA) while aboard the International Space Station (ISS) in October 2024. During his eight-month stay on the

Innovation ISS, Dominick shot roughly half a million photographs. He counts this image among his favorites.

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