Contact: Sammy McDavid
STARKVILLE, Miss.--The director of Mississippi State's interior design program is being honored by the leading professional organization in her field.
Associate professor Beth R. Miller is among only three nationally selected for the 2005-06 Educator Medalist Award of the American Society of Interior Designers, an organization of more than 30,000 members.
Also, Miller, a university faculty member for 12 years, is scheduled to assume the presidency of ASID's South Central Chapter in 2007.
Miller was notified of the award in a letter signed by current ASID/SC president Deborah Holstein of Biloxi and other members of the board of directors.
In praising Miller, the leaders observed that MSU has been home to the national ASID student chapter of the year "three of the five years under your direction."
They added: "You have distinguished your interior design program at Mississippi State University by the many national awards your students have won, and by the prestigious architecture and design firms in which your students intern and are employed. Your expertise within the field of interior design, and your dedication to the chapter and profession truly are unparalleled."
Miller, a Louisville resident, is a graduate of Louisiana Tech University and Mississippi University for Women. She is completing work on a doctorate in MSU's College of Education.
The program she heads was a part of the School of Human Sciences before being relocated several years ago, along with the art department in the College of Arts and Sciences, to MSU's College of Architecture--now the College of Architecture, Art and Design.
NEWS EDITORS/DIRECTORS: For additional information, contact Miller at 662-325-0530 or bmiller@caad.msstate.edu.