Miranda Kim and Rebecca Kim picked their way through washed-up stingrays and bird corpses at their local beach in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, during a cleanup event in the summer. Read more...

Photo: Miranda Kim, a first-year pre-business economics student, helped start Soulface, an eco friendly clothing company that transforms shards of plastic from water bottles and other packaging into small microbeads, which are then turned into fibers and knitted into fabric. (Chengcheng Zhang/Daily Bruin)

Yoon Lee’s mother taught her how to knit in the sixth grade, using chopsticks as needles. The third-year molecular, cell and developmental biology student has been knitting ever since and started the i-KNIT-iative knitting club her first year at UCLA. Read more...

Photo: Yoon Lee, a third-year molecular, cell and developmental biology student, started the i-Knit-tiative club at UCLA during her freshman year. At club meetings every Monday night, members work on various projects including scarves and beanies, which the club is hoping to donate to homeless shelters around Los Angeles later on in the quarter. Members can learn how to knit, crochet or other forms of needlework. (Hannah Burnett/Assistant Photo editor)