Susan Hockfield has served as the sixteenth president of MIT since December 2004, the first life scientist and the first woman to head the Institute. In 2011, Dr. Hockfield led the Sesquicentennial celebrations of MIT’s founding, which fell two days before the start of the Civil War and opened a vital new chapter in America’s industrial and intellectual history.
Dr. Hockfield is a graduate of the University of Rochester and received her PhD from Georgetown University. In 1985, she joined the faculty at Yale University, where she served as dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and as provost.
The theme of the 2011-2012 Lowell Lecture series is “Remembering the Civil War.” This is part of the Boston Public Library’s commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.
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