Hopi Hoekstra named next Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
The MCZ is pleased to share the news that Hopi Hoekstra, MCZ Curator of Mammalogy, will become the next Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
Hopi is currently the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology in the Departments of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and serves as the curator of mammals in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. She is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and a longtime member of the Broad Institute. She will become dean on Aug. 1, succeeding Claudine Gay, who will become Harvard’s 30th president on July 1.
We couldn't agree more with President-elect Gay; “Hopi Hoekstra is a pathbreaking scholar with a highly interdisciplinary outlook and inclusive style, a devoted educator known for her engaging lectures and her generous mentoring of both undergraduates and graduate students, and an academic leader experienced in addressing a broad array of opportunities and challenges facing the FAS and the University,” said President-elect Gay in a message to the FAS community. “She radiates an enthusiasm for all she does, and she will bring to the deanship a combination of thoughtful judgment, intellectual curiosity and breadth, deep integrity and values, and an appetite for innovation and collaboration.”