
Values
Our Values and Identity
As a department, we are strongly committed to building a welcoming community that attracts talented faculty, students, and postdocs from broadly different backgrounds who are supported and enabled to do their very best science and to use their talents to benefit society.
Our Faculty

Our Postdoctoral Fellows

Our Graduate Students

Trainee Support Fund

Thank you to everyone who donated to Biochemistry's Trainee Support Fund! These funds will make a difference!
What's Your Story?
Every couple of months, we feature a short bio from one of our trainees. The full interview, along with archived stories appear here.

Deirdre Mack
(July 2025)
Although I never dreamed of becoming a scientist as a kid, I was always curious—constantly asking “What is this?” and “Why does it do that?” Yet, even after answering those questions there were always more follow-up questions. I simply never knew that being perpetually (and perhaps at times infuriatingly) curious could actually be a career.