Elizabeth Brooks, whose Butterfly Bakery closed in February, died March 26 at the UCLA Medical Center of a brain hemorrhage or possible stroke she had suffered three days earlier. Read more...

Ask a UCLA student to think back to a time when he or she had a religious revelation. Many students won’t be able to do so. Read more...

Spring break began with 14-hour practice sessions for members of UCLA’s mock trial program, and the hard work paid off: One of two teams the program sent to the National Championship Tournament in Iowa this past weekend came home with the national title. Read more...

UCLA’s Transportation Services is fighting two battles to make rental cars available on campus. Flexcar, a program launched Feb. 4 that allows members to rent a car by the hour from a campus location, has experienced low membership levels in the two months since its inception. Read more...

Clashes between coalition forces and supporters of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in Iraq on Sunday left 52 Iraqis and nine coalition troops dead, prompting U.S. Read more...

A council of scientists charged with evaluating earthquake prediction has found promise in a method that has had some limited success in the past. The California Earthquake Prediction Evaluation Council has recognized that the method developed by a team of researchers from UCLA, Russia, France and Japan “appears to be a legitimate approach in earthquake prediction research.” The team ““ led by Professor Vladimir Keilis-Borok of the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at UCLA ““ has predicted that an earthquake of a magnitude 6.4 or greater will occur in Southern California on or before Sept. Read more...