Hazel Sive

Hazel Louise Sive
Hazel Sive in 2017
Alma mater	University of the Witwatersrand (BA) Rockefeller University (PhD)
Awards	MacVicar Faculty Fellow, MIT (2015) National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award (1992) Searle Scholar Award (1992)
Scientific career
Institutions	Whitehead Institute Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Broad Institute Northeastern University
Website	wi.mit.edu/people/faculty/sive

Hazel L. Sive is a South African-born biologist and educator. She is Dean of the College of Science, and Professor of Biology at Northeastern University. Sive is a research pioneer, award-winning educator and innovator in the higher education space who was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in November 2021.^[1] Prior to June 2020, she was a Member of Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Professor of Biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Associate Member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Sive studies development of the vertebrate embryo, and has made unique contributions to understanding how the face forms and how the brain develops its structure. Her lab also seeks to understand the origins of neurological and neurodevelopmental disorders,^[2] such as epilepsy, autism, Pitt–Hopkins syndrome and 16p11.2 deletion syndrome.