Demonstrators rally outside the San Diego Convention Center in downtown San Diego during an immigration-rights protest on Feb. 2, 2025.
Sofia Isella performs on violin during Horizon Day 2 in UC San Diego’s Epstein Family Amphitheater on March 1, 2025.
Sheep graze on a hillside in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, on Sept. 13, 2024.
Eleah Lee, 20, photographs wildflowers during a spring break road trip to see the California superbloom in Carrizo Plain on March 26, 2024.
Demonstrators march through downtown San Diego during a “Hands Off” protest calling for the protection of democratic institutions on April 5, 2025.
Krista Lopez performs Doechii’s “Boom Bap” during a student showcase hosted by UC San Diego Associated Students Concerts & Events in Price Center on Feb. 6, 2025.
A sea anemone rests in a shallow tide pool during a king tide at Cabrillo National Monument in San Diego on Nov. 11, 2024.
Singer Leon Thomas performs for a crowd of UC San Diego students during Horizon Day 1 in the Epstein Family Amphitheater on Feb. 28, 2025.
Light streams into a meadow in Yosemite Valley on Oct. 24, 2025.
Canopy trees partially shade visitors walking toward Honolua Bay, a popular snorkeling destination in Maui, Hawaii, on Sept. 2, 2025.
YouTuber and entrepreneur Mai Pham calls out ticket numbers during a post-panel giveaway with fellow influencers Tue Nguyen and Tammy Dinh at UC San Diego’s Price Center on March 5, 2025.
Cortina d’Ampezzo, a small town in the Dolomites, receives its first snowfall of the year on Sept. 13, 2024.
Students and faculty march through Price Center during a campus-wide walkout at UC San Diego to protest the pending deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, on April 2, 2025.
Alex Patterson, 23, hikes with his dog Penelope along the Tahoe Rim Trail during a backpacking trip on May 23, 2025.
Leashed and alert, Tina waits for passersby’s attention in a doorway on a quiet street in Florence, Italy on July 18, 2025.
Duckwrth looks out at the crowd during his performance at UC San Diego’s annual Sun God Festival at RIMAC Field on May 3, 2025.
Student protesters converse with police during a demonstration against a public lecture by former Israeli ambassador Ido Aharoni outside the Gardner Room at UCSD’s School of Global Policy and Strategy, Monday, May 19, 2025.
Lead singer Arion Starks and bass guitarist Asher Kai perform with their band, The Arkangels, during UC San Diego’s annual Sun God Festival at RIMAC Field on May 3, 2025.
UC San Diego students enjoy Duckwrth’s Sun God Festival performance at RIMAC Field on May 3, 2025.
Claudia Peinado, director of Authentic Vintage Posters in San Diego, flips through the shop’s oversized vintage prints on March 1, 2024.
San Diego City Council member Sean Elo-Rivera and UC San Diego Department of Urban Studies and Planning senior lecturer Sue Peerson converse as Peerson gives him a tour of an Alleys-In-Action community pop-up in Normal Heights on May 18, 2024.
Egyptian comedian and television host Bassem Youssef speaks at a Palestinian Youth Movement rally in Ruocco Park in San Diego on Oct. 5, 2024.
UC San Diego professor Gary Fields reads a poem during a weekly gathering centered on Palestinian voices in front of Geisel Library at UC San Diego on Nov. 12, 2024.
Thorice Bisek, 87, stands with her daughter, Nia Hanscomb, at a rally protesting Donald Trump’s second presidential inauguration in Balboa Park in San Diego on Jan. 20, 2025.
Mauricio Benjamín de León paints scenes of Paris using only a pen and espresso at Merde Art Studio in Paris, France, on July 16, 2025.
Children hold signs and play at Waterfront Park ahead of the ‘No Kings’ protest in downtown San Diego, Saturday, October 18, 2025.