Bio

Dr. Richard Miller – Men's Basketball, 1966-68

Distinguished Achievement Inductee

Miller was a two-year member of the Penn State Altoona men's basketball team, including helping to lead the Lions to the Commonwealth Campus championship in the 1967-68 season. After earning a Bachelor's degree, Master's degree, and Ph.D. from Penn State, Miller has gone on to a distinguished 43-year career in the field of microbiology at the University of Louisville School of Medicine.

• Originally a standout three-sport athlete from Northern Bedford, earning nine letters
• Averaged 10 points per game as a freshman and 15 points per game as a sophomore at Penn State Altoona
• Member of the 1967-68 Commonwealth Campus championship team
• Earned a BS in Microbiology from Penn State in 1970, MS in Microbiology in 1972, and Ph.D. in Microbiology in 1975. Completed post-doctoral research in bacterial pathogenesis at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland from 1975-77
• Started a distinguished 43-year career in 1977 in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Louisville School of Medicine, serving 11 years as acting chairman and then vice chairman of the department
• Educated more than 6,000 medical students and 3,000 dental students in infectious disease microbiology
• Numerous "best teacher" awards, as well as "Outstanding Educator" and "Distinguished Educator" awards from the Dean of the School of Medicine
• His research and findings have been an integral part of the foundational knowledge of a new respiratory infectious disease, referred to as Legionnaires' disease pneumonia, which was isolated by the CDC in spring 1977
• Currently serves as President and Chief Scientific Officer of Environmental Safety Technologies, Inc., a company he helped to found in 1993