Valerie Baggett is a native of Southern California. She earned her bachelor’s degree in chemistry from California State University, Fullerton, and her master’s in chemistry from the University of California, Irvine. She has an extensive background in scientific instrumentation, as she worked for Beckman Instruments developing and marketing UV-Visible Spectrophotometers, pH meters and Liquid Scintillation Counters and worked as a freelance writer writing technical manuals for scientific instrumentation and editing graduate theses. She led women’s Bible study groups in her church and was the coordinator for several years. More recently, she was an adjunct professor at El Camino College, Santa Monica College and California State University at Dominguez Hills. Baggett has been teaching chemistry at Biola since 2010. Her primary teaching responsibility is for the Organic and Biochemistry courses for Allied Health with Lab.She is also the chemistry lab coordinator and is responsible for ordering lab materials, safety compliance and hazardous materials waste.

Introductory Chemistry, Principles of Organic, Biochemistry