2024 Distinguished Alumni Award

Squire Booker is an Evan Pugh Professor of Chemistry at The Pennsylvania State University. Along the way to becoming a professor of Penn State’s highest level, he was selected as a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator in 2015, and Penn State awarded him their Faculty Scholar Medal in 2016. 
Squire has received fellowships from The National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health to study at René Descartes University in Paris, France, and the Institute for Enzyme Research at the University of Wisconsin, respectively. He has had lectureships at Cal State—Los Angeles, University of Florida, University of Wisconsin—Madison, and MIT, and has shared his research through contributions to over 30 scholarly publications.

Among other awards, Squire received a Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering, a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation, and an American Chemical Society Cope Scholar award. 

Squire lives in State College, Pennsylvania, where he is heavily involved in the mentoring of young scientists, particularly those who come from groups that are historically underrepresented in the sciences.