Mark Lee

MARK LEE is an associate professor of biology at Spelman College. He is committed to STEM education for underrepresented groups, especially women scientists. A former Faculty Trustee on the Board at Spelman College (2015-2021), Dr. Lee is a PULSE Fellow (Since 2019), a member of the National Academies Roundtable for Systemic Change in Undergraduate STEM Education (since 2019), and facilitator of Mobile Summer Institutes in association with National Institute on Scientific Teaching (NIST) (since 2016). He has also worked on science education reform through his work with the Emory Fellowships in Research and Science Teaching (FIRST) Program, the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), Stanford Asilomar Conference for Online Education, and the National Academies Summer Institutes for Science Education. His science education research is most recently funded by the National Science Foundation, and he is a member of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Dr. Lee has a B.S. in chemistry from Morris Brown College and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Clark Atlanta University. Before joining the faculty of Spelman College, Dr. was a Post Doctoral Fellow at Emory University School of Medicine.