Kathleen L. Miller Memorial Scholarship
Kathleen L. Miller, Ph.D., received her B.A. in microbiology in1971
from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She earned her Ph.D. in immunology
at UC Berkeley in 1977, receiving the Chancellor's Patent Fund Award for
Graduate Student Research. Dr. Miller spent several years in England and
Brazil doing parasitology research before returning to the Bay Area. Dr.
Miller investigated interleukin regeneration of hematopoesis and the role
of tumor necrosis factor in malaria while at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.
She also worked at several Bay Area biotech companies, including Idatek,
Celtrix, Collagen, and Chiron. At Chiron, she was responsible for the development
and validation of biological assays. Dr. Miller published extensively and
made numerous presentations. She shared her skills in communication and
administration with several scientific organizations and was an early board
member of East Bay AWIS. Kathleen was a warm, generous person who enjoyed
helping people and had many outside interests, including travel and art.
She died in June,1994, at age 44.
The Kathleen Miller Memorial Scholarship was established in1995 to assist
re-entry women in their second year of study in the biosciences. Initially
supported by donations from East Bay AWIS members, the scholarship was
generously endowed in 1996 by Mrs. Arlene Miller, Kathleen's mother, in
loving memory of her daughter.
2001 Myrna Hutcherson,
Diablo Valley College
2000 Liv Nevin, Merritt
College
Jessica Trowbridge, Merritt College
Monica Wadsworth, Laney College
1999 Leslie Haynes,
Laney College
1998 Sherifat Bello,
Laney College
1997 Stephanie Powers,
Laney College
1996 Hazel Martinez,
Vista College