MILLER AWARDED FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING

Southeast Missouri State University music professor Dr. Gary Miller will be awarded the 1998 Governor's Award for Excellence in Teaching next month.

Miller is among a group of selected faculty members, representing all Missouri colleges and universities, who will receive the awards Dec. 10 in Kansas City. The award recognizes faculty commitment to excellent education.

Miller received the 1998 Faculty Merit Award from Southeast.

In addition to serving of professor of music, Miller coordinates graduate studies in the music department.

A native of Cedar Falls, Iowa, Miller began his early musical studies on the piano at the age of 5. By junior high, his studies included both the cello and oboe.

He received an undergraduate degree from the University of Northern Iowa in 1967. He received both a master's and a doctorate from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 1968 and 1980, respectively.

Miller joined the faculty at Southeast in 1980.