Dr. Marie George is a full-time professor of philosophy at St. John’s University, New York. She received a B.A. in philosophy at Thomas Aquinas College in 1979, and completed her Ph.D in philosophy at Laval University in 1987. In 2000 – 2002 she also completed both a B.A. and a Master’s degree in biology from Queens College.  Dr. George has published several articles for such journals as the Thomist, Logos, and the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly. She has also recently published two books: Faith, Scholarship, and Culture in the 21st Century (American Maritain Association publication, distributed by Catholic University of America Press, Washington, DC, 2002), and Christianity and Extraterrestrial? A Catholic Perspective (New York: iUniverse, 2005). The latter volume was published as part of the Society for Aristotelian Studies Philosophia Perennis series.

Dr. Chris Stoughton is an active scientist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. He received his B.S. in physics at Notre Dame, and his Ph.D. in particle physics at Columbia University in 1987. The title of his thesis was "A Search for Neutrino Oscillations in the Narrow-Band Beam at the AGS.” His post-doctoral experiment at Fermilab, on the Hadroproduction of Charm, observed thousands of charmed particle decays. In 1991, he joined the newly minted Experimental Astrophysics Group at Fermilab, working on the SDSS. He is currently in charge of data processing and distribution for SDSS, which is systematically mapping the night sky by observing one million spectra and hundreds of millions of images.