Karen R. Hitchcock was an American biologist and university administrator who had leadership positions at an American and a Canadian university. She served as the president of SUNY's University at Albany in Albany, New York, from 1996 until her resignation in 2003. She was principal and vice-chancellor of Queen's University, in Kingston, Ontario from 2004 until an abrupt resignation in 2008, when she announced her departure in a sudden email to students. After her sudden departure from Queen's University, she returned, with husband Murray Blair, to the Albany, New York, area to live in Vischer Ferry.
- Occupation
- biologist, anatomist, academic administrator
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- February 10, 1943
- Died
