Squire Booker has been named the Richard Perry University Professor in the Department of Chemistry in the School of Arts & Sciences and the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, beginning Jan. 1.
Booker is an investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences and American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is currently the Evan Pugh University Professor and the Eberly Family Distinguished Professor of Science at Penn State University, where he has taught since 1999. He received a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a B.A. in chemistry from Austin College, and postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Paris V and the Enzyme Institute of the University of Wisconsin at Madison.