The Markus F. Miller Spirit and Motivation Scholarship Endowment was established in 2014 by the 1983 Meat Judging Team and Mark and Celia Miller to provide scholarships to undergraduate students are members of the Meat Judging Team that exhibit exemplary spirit and motivation to fellow team members.

Miller, who earned his bachelor's and master's degrees at Texas Tech and was a member of the Texas Tech Meat Judging Team as a student, has taught and coached at Texas Tech since 1990. In that time, he has coached 13 national championship teams at Texas Tech and has sent 110 former students to coach multiple judging teams at the 4-H, Future Farmers of America (FFA), Division A or Senior Division levels.

Through his research into muscle biology and food safety, he has played a key role in helping underdeveloped areas of the world deal with hunger and food supply. Miller and other researchers have ongoing studies in several Latin American countries to improve the safety of meat being imported into the United States while also conducting research through carcass data, food safety samples and consumer studies in Australia, New Zealand, Poland, France, Japan and Korea. To date, he has conducted or assisted with research projects totaling more than $36 million resulting in more than 200 referred journal articles, 15 books or book chapters, 320 technical articles, 342 abstracts and two U.S. patents.

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Contact

Alex Yack
Alex.Yack@ttu.edu
Senior Director of Development
806.742.2802

Matt Williams
matt.williams@ttu.edu
Director of Development
806.742.2802

Shelbey Havens
shelbey.havens@ttu.edu
Assistant Director of Development
806.834.1108