The Gerrit S. Miller, Jr. Award is presented occasionally at the annual North American Symposium on Bat Research to persons "In recognition of outstanding service and contribution to the field of chiropteran biology."  The award is named after Gerrit S. Miller, Jr., an outstanding early 20th Century bat biologist at the Smithsonian Institution.  Miller's work on the evolutionary relationships of chiropteran families and genera to one another still strongly influences taxonomic thinking about bats today.

There have been sixteen recipients of the Miller Award to date.  What follows is the year and the NASBR meeting at which the award was made, and the recipient(s) for each year.

1977 -- 8th Annual NASBR at Carleton University, Ottawa
G. Roy Horst, SUNY College at Potsdam, NY
Karl F. Koopman, American Museum of Natural History, NY

1979 --  10th Annual NASBR at Washington University, St. Louis
Donald R. Griffin, Rockefellar University, New York, NY

1981 -- 12th Annual NASBR at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
William A. Wimsatt, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

1982 -- 13th Annual NASBR at University of Louisville, KY
M. Brock Fenton, Carleton University, Ottawa (later York University, N. York, Ontario)

1984 -- 15th Annual NASBR at University of Rockford, Rockford, IL
Tom Kunz, Boston University, MA

1986 -- 16th Annual NASBR at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Harold B. Hitchcock, Middlebury College, VT
Merlin Tuttle, Bat Conservation International, Austin, TX

1990 -- 20th Annual NASBR at University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
Bernardo Villa-Ramirez, Universidad Nacional Automoma de Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico

1992 -- 22nd Annual NASBR at Universite de Sherbrooke, Quebec
Don E. Wilson, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian, Washington, DC

1995 -- 25th Annual NASBR at Boston University, MA
Paul A. Racey, University of Aberdeen, Scotland

1997 -- 27th Annual NASBR co-hosted by University of Arizona, Pima Community College, and Arizona Game & Fish, Tucson, AZ
Gary McCracken, University of Tennessee, TN

1999 -- 29th Annual NASBR at University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Ted Fleming, University of Miami, Miami, FL

2001 -- 31st Annual NASBR at Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Patricia ("Trish") W. Freeman, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE

2002 -- 32nd Annual NASBR at Burlington, VT
Robert M. R. Barclay, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

2004 -- 34th Annual NASBR at Salt Lake City, UT
Rodrigo Medellin, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Instituto de Ecologia, Mexico

2006 -- 36th Annual NASBR at Wilmington, NC
R. Mark Brigham, University of Regina, Regina, SK, Canada

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