Photo of the Week: Ancestral Clay Architecture Professor Anthony Dubovsky and undergraduate Sam Glickman examine Sam's final project for Environmental Design 11A, Introduction to Drawing. The clay figures depict an imaginary meeting between Sam and his grandfather Reuben, who passed away before Sam was born. The project, called Ancestral Realm, invited students to create in clay an imaginary meeting between themselves and someone important from their past. The students' clay renderings, along with written explanations and sketches were on display in the main lobby of Wurster Hall in early December. Peg Skorpinksi photo.

Independent research by two international teams of scientists - one involving Berkeley astronomers, the other involving physicists based at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory - has been picked as the number one science story of the year by the editors of Science magazine.

The discovery by the two teams that the expansion of the universe is accelerating surprised everyone, and threw a wrench into current cosmological theories. The scientists came to this conclusion after measuring the speed at which distant supernovas are receding from us. (continues)