| Susan Hockfield AKA Susan Joan Hockfield Born: 24-Mar-1951
Birthplace: Chicago, IL
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Educator
Party Affiliation: Democratic Nationality: United States
Executive summary: President of MIT First woman and first biologist to head the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Father: Robert Hockfield (GE executive, d. 1984)
Mother: Fayetta Hockfield
Husband: Thomas N. Byrne (physician, m. 2-Mar-1991, one daughter)
Daughter: Elizabeth (b. circa 1992)
High School: Horace Greeley High School, Chappaqua, NY (1969)
University: BA Biology, University of Rochester (1973)
Scholar: Lab Technician, Georgetown University School of Medicine (1973-76)
University: PhD Anatomy and Neuroscience, Georgetown University School of Medicine (1979)
Scholar: University of California at San Francisco (1979-80)
Scholar: Staff Investigator, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (1980-85)
Teacher: Neurobiology, Yale University (1985-94)
Professor: Neurobiology, Yale University (1994-2001)
Professor: William Edward Gilbert Professor of Neurobiology, Yale University (2001-04)
Administrator: Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Yale University (1998-2002)
Administrator: Trustee, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (1998-2004)
Administrator: Trustee, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (2006-)
Administrator: Provost, Yale University (2003-04)
Professor: Neuroscience, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2004-)
Administrator: President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2004-)
Member of the Board of General Electric (2006-)
Charles Judson Herrick Award 1987
Amelia Earhart Award 2005
Edison Achievement Award 2010
Academy of Achievement
American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2004
American Association for the Advancement of Science 2005
American Association of Anatomists
Association of American Universities
Boston Symphony Orchestra Trustee
Carnegie Corporation Trustee, 2006-
Council on Foreign Relations
Coalition for a Democratic Majority
Massachusetts General Hospital Scientific Advisory Committee
Science Debate 2008
Society for Neuroscience
Universities Research Association
National Institutes of Health Fellowship, 1979-80
National Math and Science Initiative Board of Directors, 2007-09
WGBH Educational Foundation Trustee, 2004-
World Economic Forum Foundation Board, 2008-
Official Website:
http://web.mit.edu/hockfield/
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