Beverly K. Hartline is the dean of the College of Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Technology at Delaware State University. Prior to coming to Delaware State University she has served in many capacities, including special assistant to the president of Heritage University in Toppenish Wash., and visiting professor of science; associate laboratory director at-large for Argonne National Laboratory and deputy laboratory director at the University of Chicago (2001-2003); the acting deputy associate Laboratory Director, Strategic and Supporting Research Directorate at Los Alamos National Laboratory (1998-2001); assistant director of Physical Sciences and Engineering at the White House Office of Scientific and Technology Policy (1996-1998); and associate director, education program director, and project manager for the Southeastern Research Association in Virginia (1985-1996).

Hartline earned a Ph.D in Geophysics from the University of Washington in Seattle in 1978. She was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society for her leadership and drive to advance physics and other science education at all education levels, including educator outreach and the general public. She has written numerous articles and papers including the conference proceedings for the first and 2nd International Conferences on Women in Physics sponsored by the IUPAP.

K. Renee Horton is a doctoral candidate in Material Science with a concentration in Physics. She is currently performing her dissertation research on graded recorded media at the Center for Materials Information Technology located at the University of Alabama and will be the first African American to graduate with a PhD in Material Science. She is currently a graduate teacher assistant teaching studio physics 101 and 105. Ms. Horton was a NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Graduate Student Research Fellow (2004-2007) and a Southern Regional Educational Board Fellow (2005-2008). She is a student executive board member and chairperson for the women in physics committee for the National Society of Black Physicists (NSBP), the Alabama and Georgia Science and Everyday Experience (SEE) coordinator for Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. She established and is currently the scientific outreach coordinator for the MINT Scientific Outreach Program (MINT SOUP). The program services 125 students in the city and county of Tuscaloosa. She was awarded the American Physical Society Topical Group on Magnetism and its Applications (GMAG) outreach grant in 2007. She was a member of the U.S. delegation team to the 2nd International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) International Conference on Women in Physics in 2005, held in Brazil. She is currently serving as Co-leader for the upcoming US delegation team for the 3rd IUPAP International Conference on Women in Physics in October 2008, to be held in Korea. She has been an invited speaker at the NSBP annual conference and at the American Physical Society (APS) annual March meeting. Ms Horton is the proud mother of three children, Eric 17, Malik 15 and Denise 9. Her greatest accomplishment outside of her family is her success in achieving her goals in spite of her hearing disability.

Dr. Luz J. Martínez-Miranda is an Associate Professor of Materials Science in the Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Maryland. Her research interests are in the field of liquid crystals. She has studied their interfacial properties for display applications. Presently, she uses liquid crystals as models for biological systems. She has been involved in programs that advance the careers of women and minorities for many years, and has worked in education programs for children to attract them into the sciences and engineering. She has been a member of the Committee of Minorities of the APS and has been a member and chair of the Committee on the Status of Women in Physics of the APS. She is at present the president of the National Society of Hispanic Physicists. She was made fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for among other things her work for women, minorities and her efforts in showing students the joy of research.

Dr. Yevgeniya V. Zastavker joined Olin College of Engineering as an Assistant Professor of Physics after Wellesley College where she had been a Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics since July 2000. She received her Ph.D. in Biological Physics from M.I.T. in June 2001 and her B.S. Yale University in 1995. Prior to arriving to the U.S., she received education at Kiev Pedagogical college and has also been awarded the Red Diploma of graduation with honors from Kiev Evening Musical School, where her concentration was piano. Besides helping to build a new engineering college, which includes creating from clean slate both new curriculum, social, and cultural structures for the college, Dr. Zastavker serves as a founding faculty on the College Committee on Diversity and Academic Affairs, and teaches in the MIT MITES Program (Minority Introduction to Engineering and Science), a rigorous six-week summer program for promising minority high school students. Dr. Zastavker's research interests are two-fold. Firstly, they lie in the field of biological physics, an interdisciplinary field that bridges such diverse areas as physics, biology, chemistry, bio-medical engineering, and chemical engineering. Secondly, Dr. Zastavker is studying the questions pertaining to project-based learning and its effectiveness in recruiting, retaining, and satisfying students, particularly women and minorities, in science and engineering.