Parson is a biochemist and molecular geneticist who also teaches in the Chemistry
Department. She is a consultant to the Biosciences Laboratories at 3M and has co-authored
a publication on a chromatographic support for high pressure liquid chromatography. In
addition, she has worked for Project Kaleidoscope in Washington, D.C., on projects to
help improve undergraduate science education. She has also conducted research at the
University of Glasgow, where she investigated gene expression.
EDUCATION: B.A., Macalester College Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Parson has been teaching at Macalester since 1974.
