KEN MILLER, PHD
BROWN UNIVERSITY
JOHN P. MCGOVERN SCIENCE & SOCIETY AWARD
Biography
Kenneth R. Miller is Professor Emeritus of Biology at Brown University and President of the National Center for Science Education. He earned his Ph. D. in Biology from the University of Colorado and taught at Harvard for six years before joining the faculty at Brown. In addition to his research work in cell biology, he is coauthor (with Joseph S. Levine) of the nation’s leading high school biology textbook.
He has written extensively on evolution, and in 2005 served as lead witness in the Kitzmiller v. Dover trial on evolution and intelligent design. His books include Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground between God and Evolution (1999), Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul (2008), and The Human Instinct: How we evolved to have Reason, Consciousness, and Free Will (2018).
His honors include the Public Understanding of Science Award from AAAS, the Stephen Jay Gould Prize from the Society for the Study of Evolution, the Gregor Mendel Medal from Villanova University, and the Laetare Medal from Notre Dame University.