[3] She attended Mount Union College, in Ohio, on a full scholarship.
[3] Lee joined the faculty at Cornell University in 1968, becoming the institution's first woman professor of Asian ancestry.
[2] At Cornell, Lee taught courses and conducted research in developmental psychology and in Asian-American identity and history.
[1][2] With Nolan W. Zane, she was the co-editor of the first edition of The Handbook of Asian American Psychology, published in 1998.
[1][5] The mission of the Center is to promote cross-cultural understanding between Hong Kong and American communities.