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.
A scholar of Russian and Eastern European studies, Dr. Solywoda has spent the past two decades studying and working at the University of Oxford in England.
The new endowed appointments are Julie Lundquist at Johns Hopkins University, Sarah Knott at the University of Oxford, Sara Coffey at Oklahoma State University, Marjan Boerma at the University of Arkansas for Medical Science, and Judith Byfield at Cornell University.
Dr. Hall is a professor emerita of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, where she taught for nearly four-decades. She has conducted extensive research on patents, patent citations, the relationship between research and development and productivity, and the econometrics of firm-level microdata
Irish-born Louise Richardson, who earned two master's degrees and a Ph.D. in the United States, will become the first woman to lead the University of Oxford, the oldest university in the English-speaking world.
A new study by scholars at Stanford University and Oxford University has determined that nine times as many people throughout the world are killed by domestic violence than are killed in civil wars but little foreign aid is focused on the issue of domestic violence.
Since women were first included in 1976, there have been only four times, the last being in 2011, when women outnumbered men among the American Rhodes Scholars selected in that particular year. This year there are 14 women and 18 men.
Heather Wilson is a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives. She is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy and was a Rhodes Scholar, earning a master's degree and a Ph.D. in international relations at Oxford University.
