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Kelly Miller, a senior from Pittsford, NY, studying environmental engineering, was recently awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation. The fellowship provides a stipend and tuition allowance for three years of graduate study. In 2007, she was also a winner of a Morris K. Udall Scholarship.   

Since her freshman year at UB, Kelly has been engaged in research and activism involving world-wide water quality issues. She attended her first national Water World Conference as a freshman and as a result of her participation in such venues, she has developed a unique relationship with the Nigerian non-profit Rural Africa Water Development Project. Kelly has served as a volunteer assistant in preparing for and giving presentations to the World Water Forum. She also participated in fundraising efforts for the organization, including winning a $190,000 grant from the World Bank Development Marketplace competition.

Kelly has been very active outside her studies as the co-founder of Engineers for a Sustainable World-UB, the New York Water Environment Federation representative for UB’s Environmental Engineering and Science club, co-organizer of UB’s students United for Progress, as well as an Assemblyperson for the Student Association Assembly.

After graduation, Kelly will work for six months with Greenpeace’s Project Hot Seat Campaign as a field organizer. She then plans to travel extensively, visiting countries in Africa and Asia. In fall 2009, she will begin graduate study in engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

In the coming years, Kelly would also like to study in the fields of international economics or international politics. She intends to work as an organizer with a non-profit organization defending the rights of oppressed persons in developing nations.