Eva Konrad Hawkins

Hawkins taught biology at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Delaware,^[6] Fairleigh Dickinson University, and City College of New York.^[3] She was an algae expert on the staff of the New York Zoological Society's Osborn Laboratory of Marine Sciences, supported by a Rockefeller Foundation grant.^[7] She designed underwater exhibits for the American Museum of Natural History and the New York Aquarium. She held a research fellowship at the New York Botanical Garden.^[8]

Hawkins's research was published in scholarly journals including American Journal of Botany,^[9] Journal of Cell Science,^[10] Phycologia,^[11] Transactions of the American Microscopical Society,^[12] Curator: The Museum Journal,^[13] Journal of Phycology,^[14] and Protoplasma.^[15]

Eva Konrád married Charles Hawkins in the 1960s. They later divorced. She became a naturalized United States citizen in 1963.^[16] She died from COVID-19 at a nursing home in the Bronx on April 18, 2020, aged 90.^[3][17]