Lee Ehrman

Lee Ehrman, an eminent American geneticist and educator, was honored with the Distinguished Professor rank in 1995 by the State University Board of Trustees and a Chancellor‘s Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1976. She is a founding member of the faculty at Purchase College, where she has taught since 1970.

Professor Ehrman received her Bachelor of Science from Queens College, City University of New York, in 1956. She holds an MS (1957) and a PhD in genetics (1959) from Columbia University. While at Columbia, she studied with and worked in the lab of Theodosius Dobzhansky, the pioneering geneticist and evolutionary biologist. In 1989, she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science by the City University of New York .

• Member of the faculty, Barnard College, 1956–1958.
• Postdoctoral fellow in genetics, Columbia University, 1959–1961.
• Member of the faculty, Purchase College, State University of New York, since 1970. Distinguished professor of biology since 1995.
• Member, special study section, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Mental Health, 1979–1980.
• Visiting distinguished professor, University of Miami, Coral Gables, 1981.
  Visiting lecturer, University Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, 1987.
• Coordinator, panelist workshops, programs in field. Member panels, National Institutes of Health, since 2003.
• Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (Research Support award Merck/American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2001), Institute Society Ethics and Life Sciences.

Memberships

Member, American Association of University Women (life), American Society Naturalists (president 1990), Behavior Genetics Association (president 1978, Dobzhansky award for lifetime research 1988), Society for Study of Evolution (executive council 1986), Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.