Lee Ehrman
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Columbia University (MS, PhD)
Lee Ehrman | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1935 (age 90–91) |
| Citizenship | American |
| Education | Queens College (BS) Columbia University (MS, PhD) |
| Known for | Behavior genetics |
| Spouse |
Richard Guy Ehrman
(m. 1955–2007) |
| Awards | Behavior Genetics Association's Dobzhansky Award (1988) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Genetics |
| Institutions | State University of New York at Purchase |
| Thesis | The Genetics of Hybrid Sterility in Drosophila Paulistorum (1959) |
| Academic advisors | Theodosius Dobzhansky |
Lee Ehrman (born 1935) is an American geneticist and a distinguished professor of biology at State University of New York at Purchase known for her research on Drosophila fruit flies.[2][3][4]
Ehrman earned a Bachelor of Science from Queens College of CUNY in 1956.[5] Ehrman earned her M.S. in 1957 and received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1959, where she studied under Theodosius Dobzhansky. She joined the faculty at Purchase as a founding faculty member in 1970. In 1976, she received Purchase's Chancellor‘s Award for Excellence in Teaching, and she was named a Distinguished Professor of Biology there in 1995.[6]
Career
Ehrman is a founding faculty member of Purchase College, where she has been teaching since 1970.[5]
