Julie Elizabeth Miller

Degrees

• Ph.D. Neuroscience
• University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
• Wandering behavior in Manduca sexta: investigating steroid hormone effects on neural circuits for locomotor behavior.
• B.A. Biology, History
• Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA
• Neurogenesis in the embryonic and adult lobster.

Awards

• Departmental Nominee, 2022 Galileo Circle Curie Award in the College of Science
• Fall 2022 (Award Nominee)
• Nomination for Bernice Grafstein Award for Outstanding Accomplishments in Mentoring
• Society for Neuroscience, Fall 2020 (Award Nominee)
• Honored, Faculty Appreciation night-Women's Volleyball
• University of Arizona, Fall 2018
• Invited Participant, ASHA Lessons for Success NIH Grant Workshop
• American Speech Hearing Association, Spring 2018
• NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Award to my Ph.D. student Cesar Medina
• Fall 2017
• Inducted, Nu Rho Psi Honor Society, Arizona chapter for Neuroscience
• Spring 2017
• Invited Seminar Talk on "Neuromolecular Mechanisms for Speech Motor Control"
• Department of Speech and Hearing SciencesArizona State University, Fall 2016
• Profiled in University News, ‘UA News’ “Birdsong Could Offer Clues to Human Speech Disorders.”
• Fall 2016
• Invited Seminar Talk: "Molecular Substrates for Vocal Plasticity in the Zebra Finch"
• Southwest Brain, Cognition and Vocal Behavior Meeting; Tucson, AZ, Summer 2016
• Invited Seminar Talk on "The Role of the Basal Ganglia in Neural Control of Speech (and Language)"
• Cognitive Science Seminar SeriesUniversity of Arizona, Spring 2016
• University Sole Selectee for Letter of Intent for the Brain Research Foundation Fay/Frank Seed Grant Program
• University of Arizona, Fall 2015
• Profiled Scientist in the UA Science Supplement of the Arizona Daily Star newpaper
• University of Arizona, Fall 2014