Margaret Abraham is a sociology professor at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York. She is the author of Speaking the Unspeakable: Marital Violence Among South Asian Immigrants in the United States.

Eric R. Wollman is professor and chairman of physics at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. His research focuses on conditions in the early universe.

Andrea Spencer-Linzie is executive director of the New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault, which has conducted outreach to faith communities in the New Jersey area.

Read an article from March 2005 issue of Scientific American about the most common misconceptions about the creation of the universe.

Read an overview of the field of cosmology by George Smoot’s research group.

Read an overview of the field of cosmology by Andreas Albrecht.

The Joint Urban Ministry Project is a collaborative ministry between religious organizations in Burlington, Vermont. Among its clients are victims of domestic violence. Email through the website.

Read an overview of the field of cosmology by Sean Carroll.

Read UCLA astronomy professor Edward L. Wright’s cosmology tutorial.