Students can now take longer trips on a budget using a new app that lets students rent cars from each other. Lula is a car rental service through which users can sign up and select whether they want to rent cars or let other students rent their cars. Read more...

Photo: Matthew (left) and Michael Vega-Sanz (right) are the co-founders of Lula, a car rental service through which students can sign up and rent cars from other students. (Courtesy of Lula Rides)

Camp counselors “Curly” and “Horcháta” said once the kids at Camp River Glen figured out how to make Woodsey Bling, special camp necklaces, they wouldn’t stop. Read more...

Photo: About 30 children attended Bear Necessities this summer, a camping program put on by UCLA Recreation and UCLA UniCamp, which is a service organization that sends children from urban communities to outdoor summer camps. (Courtesy of Diana Marin)

Valeree Catangay grew up in Long Beach, California, near the intersection of two major freeways where tens of thousands of trucks drive by every day. When she visited Long Beach to experience pollution in the community firsthand, she saw how ground travel can have a detrimental effect on the environment. Read more...

Photo: Valeree Catangay, is a fourth-year environmental science student and winner of the Brower Youth Award for Environmental Leadership. (Courtesy of Valeree Catangay)