Rate My Professor Laura Parmentier

Laura E. Parmentier is Emerita Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Beloit College, where she served for 34 years following her arrival in 1991 as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry. She advanced through the ranks, becoming Assistant Professor and Martha Peterson Jr. Professor in the Sciences in 1993, Martha Peterson Associate Professor of Chemistry from 1997 to 2008, and Professor of Chemistry in 2009. Parmentier held the position of Biochemistry Program Chair in the Department of Chemistry and served as chair of the Program of Health and Society. She earned her B.S. summa cum laude in Chemistry and Biology from Northland College in 1984 and her Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1990, with a thesis on mechanistic studies of Aspartate Transcarbamylase using heavy atom isotope effects under advisors Professors Marion H. O'Leary and W. W. Cleland. Prior to Beloit, she was a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Institute for Enzyme Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison (1990-1991), and an Instructor of Chemistry at Northland College (1984-1985). As a visiting scholar, she lectured at the Department of Chemistry, University of Glasgow in 2000 and 2005, and served as a visiting scientist at Sogn og Fjordane University College, Norway in 2006, studying glacial lake sediments for climate change evidence.