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FSC alumna Marilyn Miller visits chemistry department,
lectures on forensic science

LAKELAND, Fla. (March 20, 2003) - The Florida Southern chemistry department, with support from the FSC Alumni Association, will hold a lecture featuring 1977 graduate Marilyn Tebbs Miller. The lecture, titled "Forensic Science is Not TV's 'CSI,'" takes place March 26 at 4:30 p.m. in Polk County Science Building, Dr. James M. Marlowe Lecture Hall, Room 152. The public is welcome to attend.

Miller has taught at the University of New Haven, Conn. since 1996. Currently, she is an assistant professor and coordinator of the Undergraduate Forensic Science Program. Marilyn is a full member of the Criminalistics section of the American Academy of Forensic Science, the Southern Association of Forensic Scientists, and the American Chemical Society. As a post-secondary educator she teaches a wide variety of forensic science and crime scene investigation classes to both forensic science and criminal justice majors at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

For over fifteen years she worked as a supervisor and forensic scientist for law enforcement agencies in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Florida. She has testified over 350 times in county, state, and federal courts of law as an expert witness in the field of forensic sciences and crime scene reconstruction. In addition to expertise in forensic science, other areas of emphasis are scientific crime scene investigation and reconstruction and bloodstain pattern analysis.

Miller earned a master's degree in forensic chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh. On
March 10, she successfully defended her dissertation for a doctorate in education from Johnson & Wales University.

For further information, please contact Dr. Carmen Gauthier, chemistry professor, at 863-680-4320 or cgauthier@flsouthern.edu.

About Florida Southern College
Florida Southern is a four-year, private, co-educational liberal arts college affiliated with the United Methodist Church. The college offers more than 40 undergraduate majors and a master of business administration degree accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Located in Lakeland, Fla., the college is home to the largest, single-site collection of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture in the world.

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