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Lynn
Zimmerman receives Regents award
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A professor
of biological sciences, Dr. Lynn Zimmerman is known throughout
the UMBC community as a rigorous scholar equally devoted to
her research and her students. The recipient of a Regents Faculty
Award for Excellence in Mentoring from the University System
of Maryland Board of Regents, Zimmerman has nurtured |
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undergraduate and graduate students who have gone on to conduct
graduate and postdoctoral work at some the most prestigious
universities in the nation and abroad. She also serves as mentor
and advisor to UMBC’s award-winning chapter of the Golden
Key National Honor Society, and has been honored by the National
Golden Key Society as one of the society’s regional Advisors
of the Year. |
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“I can’t think
of anything more important than
mentoring our students,” says Zimmerman. “It's
really the reason why we’re here.
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Zimmerman has mentored
seven Ph.D. students and over 20 undergraduates during her tenure
at UMBC, which started in 1984. She also has served as an undergraduate
research mentor for the Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC)
program at UMBC.
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| Zimmerman’s research
lab works with the genes that help plants survive environmental stress.
In 1999, she was granted a patent on a gene that enhances temperature
stress resistance. Zimmerman received a Ph.D. from the University
of California at Irvine followed by postdoctoral studies at Harvard
University and the USDA. |
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