Late at night, the John Wooden Center is crowded, so Dongwon Lee, a graduate student in electrical engineering, often has to wait in lines to use machines and facility showers. Read more...

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The long-awaited UCLA Kinross Recreation Center, or K-Rec, opens today in Westwood Village at 11000 Kinross Avenue.

While bored at a business internship last summer, Cameron Hajialiakbar browsed the internet for a job involving soccer, one of his main passions. Read more...

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UCLA student Cameron Hajialiakbar was honored at the White House as a “Champion of Change.”

He was completely dehydrated, and his entire lower body cramped. It felt as though someone had taken a match and lit his toes on fire. Read more...

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Shamar Jones, a career advising coordinator at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, ran the L.A. Marathon on Sunday for the ninth consecutive year. He decided to start running in honor of his father, who died in 2004 after battling cancer for three years.

Thach "Tak" Nguyen sat grinning from ear to ear on Thursday as President Barack Obama spoke to his left, addressing a White House audience of eager college students. Read more...

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Thach “Tak” Nguyen, UCLA alumnus and co-founder of Swipes for the Homeless, listens to President Barack Obama as he rewards the group for the Campus Champions of Change Challenge at the White House.