The Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science was established on the University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...

 campus in 1955 after Adolph C. Miller

Adolph C. Miller

Adolph C. Miller was an American government official and university professor. He was one of the original Governors of the Federal Reserve System, appointed in 1914, and served in that capacity for 22 years...

 and his wife, Mary Sprague Miller made a donation to the University. It was their wish that the donation be used to establish an institute “dedicated to the encouragement of creative thought and conduct of pure science.”

The Miller Institute sponsors Miller Research Professors, Visiting Miller Professors and Miller Research Fellows

Miller Research Fellows

The Miller Fellow program is the central program of the Adolph C. and Mary Sprague Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science on the University of California Berkeley campus, which constitutes the support of Research Fellows - a group of the world’s most brilliant young scientists...

. The first appointments of Miller Professors were made in January 1957. In 2008 the Institute created the Miller Senior Fellow program. This program is aimed differently, but is still within the Institute's general purpose of supporting excellence in science at UC Berkeley. The Senior Fellow advances that goal by providing selected faculty with significant discretionary research funds as recognition of distinction in scientific research. The first 5-year award went to Professor Randy Schekman

Randy Schekman

Randy W. Schekman is an American cell biologist at the University of California, Berkeley and Editor-in-Chief of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In 2011 he was announced as the editor of a new high profile open access journal published by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the...

, illustrating the high standard of the Senior Fellows. The 2010 Miller Senior Fellow, Saul Perlmutter

Saul Perlmutter

Saul Perlmutter is an American astrophysicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of...

, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2011. He shares the prize with former Miller Fellow Adam Riess

Adam Riess

Adam Guy Riess is an American astrophysicist at Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute and is widely known for his research in using supernovae as Cosmological Probes. Riess shared both the 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy and the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics with Saul...

 (MF 1996-98) and Brian Schmidt.

Miller Research Fellows

The Miller Institute seeks to discover and encourage individuals of outstanding talent, and to provide them with the opportunity to pursue their research on the UC Berkeley campus. Fellows are selected on the basis of their academic achievement and the promise of their scientific research. Each Miller Fellow is sponsored by an academic department on the Berkeley campus and performs his or her research in the facilities provided by the host UC Berkeley academic department. The Fellowships are intended for brilliant young women and men of great promise who have recently been awarded, or who are about to be awarded, the doctoral degree.

External links

• The Miller Institute official website: http://millerinstitute.berkeley.edu/
• About the Miller Institute: http://millerinstitute.berkeley.edu/page.php?nav=35
• Miller Senior Fellows: http://millerinstitute.berkeley.edu/page.php?nav=126
• Miller Research Professorships: http://millerinstitute.berkeley.edu/page.php?nav=15
• Visiting Miller Professorships: http://millerinstitute.berkeley.edu/page.php?nav=24
• A list of all Miller Institute members former and present: http://millerinstitute.berkeley.edu/all.php?nav=28