Meg Urry is Professor of Physics at Yale and Director of the Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics; she also has an appointment in the Astronomy department. Her scientific research focuses on supermassive black holes in galaxies, and she has published over 125 refereed articles in scientific journals. She came to Yale in 2001 from her tenured position on the senior scientific staff at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), which runs the Hubble Space Telescope for NASA. Professor Urry has worked hard to increase the number of women in the physical sciences, organizing national meetings on women in astronomy in 1992 and 2003, leading the U.S. delegation to the first international meeting on Women in Physics in Paris, France in 2002, chairing the Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy for the American Astronomical Society, and editing the STATUS newsletter (http://www.aas.org/~cswa/pubs.html). Her opinion piece “Diminshed by Discrimination We Scarcely See” was recently (Feb 6, 2005) published in the Washington Post. Professor Urry did her undergraduate work at Tufts University and received her PhD from the Johns Hopkins University.