Hopi Hoekstra, an eminent life scientist who has served on the Harvard faculty since 2007, will become the next Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard President-elect Claudine Gay announced on Monday.
Hoekstra 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 Gay, who will become Harvard’s 30th president on July 1.
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