WiPA’s woman of the month is astrophysicist Meg Urry, Director of Yale Astronomy and Astrophysics. Urry studies active galactic nuclei, which are supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies, and their evolution. In 2010, Urry won the 2010 Women in Space Science Award from the Alder Planetarium for her efforts to increase the number of women in fields of the physical sciences. You can read more about her here.