Sarah Hokanson

Associate Provost for Academic Initiatives & Operational Excellence

Sarah Hokanson is Associate Provost for Academic Initiatives & Operational Excellence at Boston University, overseeing the Center for Career Development, Student Wellbeing, the Newbury Center for First-Generation Students, BU Libraries, Academic Program Review, and strategic communications in the Office of the Provost.

Dr. Hokanson has more than a decade of experience as an academic administrator at Boston University in roles within the Office of Research and Graduate Affairs, as well as in leading federally funded national projects that offered professional development programs for thousands of postdoctoral scholars (Postdoc Academy) and faculty (Inclusive STEM Teaching Project). Prior to her work at Boston University, Dr. Hokanson was the US Deputy Director of Science and Innovation for the British Consulate-General Boston.

Sarah earned her BA in Chemistry from Boston University (CAS ’05) and her PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Following her graduate training, she was a Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University in Chemistry and Chemical Biology.