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The department is pleased to announce the promotion of Laurie Littlepage to Associate Professor and Sarah West to Associate Teaching Professor.
![Laurie Littlepage](/assets/112443/150x150/littlepagesquare.jpg)
Laurie Littlepage joined the chemistry & biochemistry faculty at Notre Dame as an assistant professor in 2012. Her research focuses on the contributions of the epithelium and surrounding stroma/microenvironment to both cancer progression and normal tissue development in the mammary gland and prostate. Littlepage received her B.S. in biochemistry and molecular biology from the University of Texas – Austin and her Ph.D. in cell and developmental biology from Harvard University. She then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California San Francisco.
![Sarah West](/assets/112576/150x150/westsquare.jpg)
Sarah West has been at Notre Dame since 1998 and primarily teaches organic chemistry laboratory. West received her B.A. in chemistry and biology from Augustana College.