The ebAWIS Scholarship Program is an ever expanding entity.  Reflecting this organization's commitment to improving educational opportunities for women in science. Our chapter offers up to six scholarship awards from three sources, the East Bay Chapter Scholarship, the Kathleen Miller Memorial Scholarship, and the Lorraine McCormick Memorial Scholarship. 

The scholarship deadline is   March 28, 2008, with award announcement to be in April, 2008.    

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East Bay Chapter Scholarship

The East Bay AWIS Scholarship was first awarded in 1995.  Berkeley Biotechnology Education Inc. (BBEI) had an infrastructure in place to offer scholarships to students who attend Vista College and Berkeley High School.  We added the category of "Re-entry Women".  At the same time BBEI's program expanded to include several other community colleges in the Bay Area.  Today, the BBEI and ebAWIS scholarship programs reach re-entry women from six participating colleges:  

• College of Alameda
• Contra Costa Community College
• Diablo Valley College
• Merritt College
• Laney College

• Berkeley City College

East Bay AWIS Scholarship Awardees click here

Kathleen L. Miller, Ph.D. Scholarship Fund and History

The Kathleen L. Miller, Ph.D.  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.

Created in 1996, the Kathleen L. Miller, Ph. D. Memorial Scholarship is for re-entry women in their second year of science training at local community colleges. These funds are administered through Berkeley Biotechnology Education Inc. (BBEI).  Bayer Corporation provides matching funds for program support at BBEI, so our scholarship funds aid in their efforts also.

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 parasitological 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.

Kathleen L. Miller, Ph.D. Scholarship Awardees click here

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Lorraine McCormick Memorial Scholarship History

Lorraine McCormick Scholarship Awardees  click here

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