UCLA alumni Salvador Ceja and Sergio Marquez were looking for ways to pay off their student loans when they stumbled across a contest. Read more...

Photo: UCLA alumni Salvador Ceja and Sergio Marquez, who graduated in spring 2009 with degrees in architecture, recently won $5,000 for designing a toddler-safe swimming pool.

During a June trip with Project Nicaragua, Iman Zahedi, the group's co-director, interviewed a mother who had just been told that her first-born child would die the next day from spina bifida. Read more...

Photo: Members of the UCLA campus group Project Nicaragua work with advisor Dr. Jorge Lazareff (fourth from left), a professor of pediatric neurosurgery, to coordinate projects that set out to improve medical coniditions in Nicaragua and to give students experience with the policy and social aspects of health care.