Dr. Lane currently serves as the Class of 1943 Professor of Politics at Princeton University. Her award-winning book, Of Rule and Office: Plato's Ideas of the Political, examines Plato's thoughts on the accountability of those in power.
Dr. Schmiesing brings three decades of administrative and academic experience at the University of Colorado Boulder to her new position. Most recently, she has been serving as the vice chancellor for academic resources management.
Carol Frost is a professor in the department of geology and geophysics at the University of Wyoming. She will continue to hold her faculty appointment at the university during her two-year tenure at the National Science Foundation.
Of the 40 Gates Cambridge Scholars from America who will begin study in England this fall, 23 are women. The scholarships were established in 2000 with a $210 million endowment from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Each year, the Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States offers 14 full scholarships for students to pursue graduate studies in the sciences at Cambridge University in England. This year, three of the 14 winners are women.
