Ph.D. in Biochemistry at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1994) NSF-NATO Postdoctoral Fellow (1994-1995) American Chemical Society Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award (2011) Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator (2015) Squire Booker is an American biochemist at The Pennsylvania State University.

[1][2] He is an associate editor for the American Chemical Society Biochemistry Journal,[2] is a Hughes Medical Institute Investigator,[1][2][3] and an Eberly Distinguished Chair in Science at Penn State University.

One worked at NASA and sparked his interest in astronomy, while the other was a math teacher who inspired his curiosity for solving complex problems.

[1][16][17][18] He also researches many bacteria including Staphylococcus aureus, which is found in the nasal cavity and on the skin in humans.

[32][33] Booker is active in promoting diversity in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) especially towards undergraduate and graduate students.

[9] In 2010, he helped organize a workshop which discussed the different obstacles and challenges that minorities in biochemistry and molecular biology encounter when building externally funded research programs.

[34][35] Booker was the guest speaker at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's 2019 Investiture of Doctoral Hoods and Degree Conferral Ceremony.