"Leadership is a team sport," said Hoekstra, Edgerley Family Dean of the FAS. "In the FAS we have been working on big issues, from the state of discourse on our campus to academic rigor to real financial challenges. These aren't problems that any one person can solve. It's about working together and rowing in the same direction."
"I built my lab by bringing together people with diverse academic backgrounds in neurobiology, genetics, development, and computational biology," Hoekstra said. "Because we all brought different perspectives and expertise, we could tackle what I saw as some of the big unanswered questions in biology."
"Excellence - in our teaching, in our research, in the intellectual life of our community - is who we are. But it doesn't sustain itself automatically. Over the last two years, we've had to look squarely at the pressures that put that excellence at risk - from the evolving regulatory envir"
Hopi Hoekstra serves as Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and holds professorships in life sciences and evolutionary genetics. She emphasizes collaborative, faculty-led decision-making and describes leadership as a team sport. She applied lab-management experience in assembling diverse disciplinary teams to tackle complex scientific questions. Her priorities include strengthening funding, academic rigor, admissions, and expanding financial aid to support excellence. She has confronted regulatory, financial, and discourse-related pressures that risk institutional excellence. She seeks opportunity in adversity and uses empirical, data-driven problem solving with strong collaborators across the faculty.
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