Susan Hockfield, newly appointed as the William Edward Gilbert Professor of Neurobiology, is dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and a noted neuroanatomist whose work focuses on the development of the mammalian brain.

A member of the Yale faculty since 1985, she has served as the Graduate School dean since 1998. In that role, she oversees the academic and administrative policies of the school and its 2,300 students and more than 750 faculty members.

Hockfield has authored or coauthored more than 60 research articles in neurobiology as well as numerous reviews and book chapters. She is coauthor of the book "Molecular Probes of the Nervous System: Selected Methods for Antibodies and Nucleic Acid Probes." Her scientific work has been directed toward understanding the molecular substrates involved in brain development, a line of research which led her to discover a protein in the space around cells that is involved in early development and may have a role in brain tumors.

Throughout her tenure at Yale, Hockfield has been involved with improving graduate training in the biological and biomedical sciences. She served as director of graduate studies for the Section of Neurobiology from 1986 to 1994, and was a member of the Graduate School's Executive Committee and of a committee to improve linkages between the biomedical sciences. She also assisted in the development of the Biological & Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, a collaboration among biological science departments at the University designed to foster interdepartmental interactions.

At the Graduate School, Hockfield has worked to improve the quality of life for graduate students, increase opportunities for informal interaction between graduate students and faculty, and enhance students' stipend support and health care coverage, among other initiatives. She is also an
advocate for graduate education at the national level.

Hockfield joined the Yale faculty as an assistant professor and became a tenured associate professor in 1991. She was named a full professor in 1994. Prior to coming to Yale, she was a senior staff investigator at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York. From 1985 to 1997, she was director of the laboratory's Summer Neurobiology Program.

The Yale scientist earned her B.A. from the University of Rochester and her Ph.D. in anatomy and neuroscience from Georgetown University School of Medicine. She then was a National Institute of Health postdoctoral fellow at the University of California in San Francisco 1979-80.

Hockfield is a member of the editorial boards of Learning and Memory and NeuroImage, and also serves on many national and international scientific boards and panels. At Yale, she has served on numerous presidential and University committees.

Her honors include the Esther A. and Joseph Klingenstein Fellowship in the Neurosciences and the Charles Judson Herrick Award from the American Association of Anatomists for outstanding contributions by a young scientist. She was selected as a Grass Traveling Scientist by the Society for Neuroscience in 1987.

Hockfield is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Society for Neuroscience, the American Association of Anatomists and the Society for Developmental Biology.

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