The department is pleased to announce the promotion of Laurie Littlepage to Associate Professor and Sarah West to Associate Teaching Professor.
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 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.