Rain can't cloud homecoming for Urry
SOMERVILLE, Mass. — Not even a morning of rain could ruin the homecoming here at Tufts University on Sunday for one of Yale's most pioneering female scientists.
At Tufts' Commencement ceremony this morning, Meg Urry, the director of the Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics and chair of the Physics Department, received an honorary doctor of science degree for her research in astrophysics and her support of women's and minorities' pursuits of careers in science.
Upon conferring the degree, Tufts President Lawrence...
