Kolthoff Lectureship Open Forum: Professor Suzanne Walker, Effective mentoring: what does it involve?

Open Forum

"Effective mentoring: what does it involve?"

Professor Walker

Suzanne Walker received a Bachelor of Arts in English literature at the University of Chicago and a doctorate in organic chemistry at Princeton University. She joined the faculty at Princeton as an instructor of chemistry in 1995 and was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 2001. Shortly thereafter (2003), she became the first woman to attain the rank of full professor of chemistry at Princeton. In 2004, she left Princeton to join the faculty at the Harvard Medical School. She helped build the Harvard University doctorate program in chemical biology, which was established in 2005, and has served as director of the program since 2011. She also serves as an associate editor for the Journal of the American Chemical Society, handing papers in the areas of chemical biology and biochemistry.