Lee Ehrman

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.

Early life and education Ehrman earned a Bachelor of Science from Queens College of CUNY in 1956. 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. In 1976 she received the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching. She received the rank of Distinguished Professor in 1995 from the State University Board of Trustees.