Oral history interview with Susan Hockfield, 2013.

Biographical Note

President Emerita of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Scope and Contents

Upbringing in Chappaqua, New York; early research: neuroanatomy laboratory at University of Rochester, dissertation at National Institutes of Health; work at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; Yale University: professor of neurobiology, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, provost; Massachusetts Institute of Technology: president and professor of neuroscience; invited to join Carnegie Corporation of New York Board of Trustees; interest in education: online classes, integrated disciplines, updated K-12 teaching; Carnegie Corporation: venture-like funding, breakdown of complicated education issue, high-level partnerships, risky innovation; immigration reform and academic diplomacy; influential colleagues: James D. Watson, Vartan Gregorian.

Subjects

• Carnegie Corporation of New York.
• Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations--Political activity.
• Dziedzic, Sarah, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Education.
• Endowments.
• Gregorian, Vartan.
• Hockfield, Susan--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Neurobiology.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Scientists--Interviews.

Access Conditions

Copyright by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, 2013. The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York hold a non-exclusive license to enable library activities.