This blog highlights Rhodes women in the news.
"Roxanne Joyal identified the problem as a simple case of supply and demand.
In Kenya, she saw “talented Maasai beaders forced to travel daily to small tourist markets flooded with similar products, where they would sometimes sell their beadwork at a loss.” Read more at the National Post.
"Former Congresswoman Heather Wilson is a finalist for the position of President at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, signalling that her career in politics may, indeed, be over — or at least on hold for the near future.
The small school, just 2,300 students, is located in Rapid City, South Dakota.
A press release from the school reports that Wilson and the other three finalists will be on the Rapid City campus Thursday and Friday.
The other finalists are acting President Duane C. Hrncir, dean of the College of Applied Science and Technology, Rochester Institute of Technology H. Fred Walker and president of the Desert Research Institute, Nevada System of Higher Education Stephen G. Wells." Read more at the New Mexico Telegram.
"On April 11, 2013, Maggie Little, KIE Director and Associate Professor of Philosophy, was recognized at the 7th Annual College Honors, an event honoring several professors nominated by the Georgetown undergraduate student body for excellence in teaching. This year's guest of honor was Maria Donaghue, Associate Professor of Biology, Co-Director of the Neurobiology Major, and Associate Director of the HHMI-funded University program.
An invitation to College Honors is one of the few teaching awards selected by students. Each year, students submit write-in nominations for professors who have shaped their Georgetown experience in a meaningful way. Professors who receive a significant amount of nominations are selected to attend." Read more at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics.
"For more than 100 years, Girl Scouts has helped girls discover who they are, connect with others and take action to make the world a better place. On April 26, 2013, Girl Scouts of San Jacinto Council (GSSJC) will honor the contributions of Dr. Mary McIntire, dean of the Glasscock School of Continuing Studies at Rice University, for inspiring girls to make a difference at its Success to Significance event. The event will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the J.W. Marriott Hotel and will feature a keynote address by Bonnie St. John, the first African-American to win medals in Winter Paralympic competition as a ski racer.
Dynamic and dedicated leaders are vital to helping girls develop their full potential. Mary and Bonnie exemplify these traits. They both had the courage, confidence and character to break the mold and bring about change in their communities. Mary made history in 1986 when she was named the first female academic dean at Rice University. In 2007, she became GSSJC’s president and was the first to serve in this role while maintaining a full-time career. Mary’s commitment to service is evident in the numerous organizations she is involved with, including Leadership Houston, Leadership America, United Way and Yes Academy." Read more at the Examiner.
"Maddow is the centerpiece of primetime programming on progressive cable network MSNBC. So why did she dedicate her book to Dick Cheney, the ultimate liberal villain? Simple: She wanted to have him on her show. "That was my greatest gambit," she says. "But I still don't hold much hope."
Maddow, whose hourlong show surged in ratings during the election season and whose book, Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power, has become a best-seller, is arguably the face of MSNBC in the post-Keith Olbermann era. Her show, which has pushed topics including Obama's drone program and voting rights to the top of the national agenda, is also a breeding ground for other MSNBC stars like Chris Hayes, installed in a weeknight slot at 8." Read more at the Hollywood Reporter.
"Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, former scholar at CISAC and the Preventive Defense Project, starts today, April 8, as the White House Coordinator for Defense Policy, Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction, and Arms Control. Former U.S. Secretary of Defense and CISAC faculty member, William Perry, a colleague and friend, praised her work in defense policy, arms control and weapons of mass destruction: "Liz has a unique background and experience in all of those fields. I can't think of anybody else who has the same background."
Sherwood-Randall was previously the Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for European Affairs." Read more at The Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University.
"EFE Vice President Jasmine Nahhas di Florio recently spoke at the 2013 Arab Strategy Forum in the United Arab Emirates. The event took place on March 26 and 27 and was organized by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister, and Ruler of Dubai.
Launched in 2001, the Arab Strategy Forum has become a focus point of Arab strategic thinking as well as a consistent launch pad for new programs across the region." Read more at Education for Employment.
"Illinois Department of Veterans’ Affairs (IDVA) Director Erica Borggren gave a presentation called “Changing Roles of Women in the Military and Issues Facing Female Service Members and Veterans” on March 28 for the Western Illinois University Women’s History Month keynote presentation.
Borggren touched on her experience in the military, both as a West Point cadet and an Army officer. She used her military experiences to help veterans, especially woman who had their own unique issues." Read more at the Western Courier.
"The Brown-India Initiative Spring 2013 Seminar Series presents Ananya Vajpeyi, Associate Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies. Vajpeyi will deliver a lecture titled “B.R Ambedkar: Reshaping the Political Imagination in Modern India.” Please join us on Friday, April 5, from 2:30-4:30 PM in the Joukowsky Forum at the Watson Institute for International Studies." Read more at Brown University.
"Marnie Hughes-Warrington bestowed with the UTAS Foundation Graduate Award for 2013
A world leader in curriculum reform and renewal in history, Professor Marnie Hughes-Warrington, has received the University of Tasmania Foundation Graduate Award for 2013.
The honour was bestowed at the Foundation’s Launceston dinner on 21 March.
Prof Hughes-Warrington graduated from the University of Tasmania in 1992 with a Bachelor of Education with First Class Honours before travelling to Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. Her studies at UTAS in education, history and philosophy had sparked a passion for her research on R.G. Collingwood, a philosopher of history, a practising historian and archaeologist, and a leading authority on Roman Britain before his death in 1943. She was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy at Merton College, Oxford, in 1995." Read more at UTAS.
"Elleke Boehmer, Professor of World Literature in English and a Professorial Governing Body Fellow at Wolfson College, has been awarded a Leverhulme International Network Grant for 2014-16. This will involve her organising four international workshops in four cities. A Rhodes Scholar (1985-88), Professor Boehmer is also Associate Director of the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing." Read more at Wolfson College.
"Today—March 21, 2013—the much-anticipated cosmological results from the Planck satellite have been released. In a recent blog post on her own website, TED Fellow and cosmologist Renée Hlozek describes why this is a big day for astrophysics and cosmology. We asked her to explain what the excitement is all about.
“Planck is the ‘next generation’ satellite that measures the tiny fluctuations in the temperature and polarisation of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) – which is light that comes from shortly after the Big Bang, and has been travelling towards us for over 13 billion years,” she says." Read more at TED.
"Today, National Security Advisor Tom Donilon announced that Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for European Affairs Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall will be moving to a new position on the National Security Staff as the White House Coordinator for Defense Policy, Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction, and Arms Control. She will take up her duties on April 8." Read more at the White House website.
"The volcanic national debate about women, work and family erupts weekly these days, this time with reactions to Sheryl Sandberg's much-anticipated book, Lean In, released last week. Before that, Best Buy announced the end of its flexible work-from-home ROWE initiative, while Marissa Mayer banned remote working at Yahoo the week before.
The Mayer memo said Yahoo needs workers side-by-side to foster creativity, innovation and effectiveness -- despite its stature as an Internet path breaker. Emotions ran high, fueled by a passion for working flexibility many Silicon Valley workers feel." Read more at the Huffington Post.
"Wang Li is a 48-year-old farmer from Dalian, China. After a two-day trip to the major provincial hospital, he's heading home to his village to die. Wang has lung cancer, and even with insurance, his surgery will cost him 20,000 RMB -- $3,000, which is twice his annual salary. The surgery would be curative, but it doesn't matter. "I cannot burden my family," he said.
I am a Chinese-born, American physician who just returned from a two-month research trip spanning twelve cities and nine provinces in China, where many of the health care reforms in contention in the U.S. have already been tried. As Americans contemplate the decisions ahead, consider China's cautionary tale." Read more at the Huffington Post.
"The LSU Journal of Energy Law and Resources is proud and honored to host Ms. Priya Aiyar,Deputy General Counsel for Environment and Nuclear Programs for the Department of Energy, during her visit to the Law Center next week. After a prestigious academic career and a substantial career in private practice, Ms. Aiyar began a career in government service. Before serving in her current post for the Department of Energy, Ms. Aiyar led the Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in investigating the spill. Ms. Aiyar will be visiting the Law Center on March 27th as the guest speaker for the Journal’s inaugural banquet and also to participate in a lunchtime panel discussion with LSU Law faculty members Robert Sloan, Keith Hall, and Blake Hudson from 12:40-1:40 in the auditorium. All LSU students and faculty are invited for the unique opportunity to participate in and observe this lunch time panel discussion. Lunch will be provided." Read more at LSU Journal of Energy Law & Resources.
"'Man is defined as a human being and woman is defined as a female. Whenever she tries to behave as a human being she is accused of trying to emulate the male.' That observation by Simone de Beauvoir helped to inspire the feminist revolution after World War Two. Two generations later, Sheryl K. Sandberg has written a book, "Lean In," arguing that is still the case today." Read more at Reuters.
"We show that the vast majority of very high-achieving students who are low-income do not apply to any selective college or university. This is despite the fact that selective institutions would often cost them less, owing to generous financial aid, than the resource-poor two-year and non-selective four-year institutions to which they actually apply. Moreover, high-achieving, low-income students who do apply to selective institutions are admitted and graduate at high rates. We demonstrate that these low-income students' application behavior differs greatly from that of their high-income counterparts who have similar achievement. The latter group generally follows the advice to apply to a few "par" colleges, a few "reach" colleges, and a couple of "safety" schools. We separate the low-income, high-achieving students into those whose application behavior is similar to that of their high-income counterparts ("achievement-typical" behavior) and those whose apply to no selective institutions ("income-typical" behavior). We show that income-typical students do not come from families or neighborhoods that are more disadvantaged than those of achievement-typical students. However, in contrast to the achievement-typical students, the income-typical students come from districts too small to support selective public high schools, are not in a critical mass of fellow high achievers, and are unlikely to encounter a teacher or schoolmate from an older cohort who attended a selective college. We demonstrate that widely-used policies–college admissions staff recruiting, college campus visits, college access programs–are likely to be ineffective with income-typical students, and we suggest policies that will be effective must depend less on geographic concentration of high achievers." Read more at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
"She is in a Raw Mango phase, you could say of television anchor Sagarika Ghose, if you track her dressing style. Pop lipsticks, neat shoulder-length hair and Chanderi saris in colours as assertive as her opinions—that’s Ghose. Her attitude and manner have been a constant down the years. The rest—her saris and such—an eye-catching riot.
The modern, fluid Raw Mango Chanderis that she currently favours have played musical chairs with her winter Kanjeevarams and summer Leheriyas and won the round. At least for now. The blouses, as always, are bursts of vivid mix and match. “I am a Raw Mango addict,” says Ghose, laughing aloud. “Fashion and me are a clash of civilizations,” she adds, deftly manoeuvring fashion out of the debate to make space for individual style." Read more at Live Mint.
"Lean In, the new book by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, urges women to own their ambition as a pathway to leadership -- and has inspired a vigorous backlash. Sandberg argues that women sabotage their potential by holding themselves back; her critics say she blames women for the sins of society. The leadership pipeline, they say, is blocked by an inflexible workplace and caregiving demands that disproportionately fall to women." Read more at the Huffington Post.
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