Dr. Neka Miller has been with Clarkson College since 2014 and currently serves as the Director of Institutional Effectiveness as well as an Adjunct Professor in the Doctor of Education (EdD) program in the Healthcare Leadership and Business Department. Dr. Miller has performed/published research in oncology, metastatic colon cancer, neuroscience, and psychology as well as in student success and retention in higher education. Dr. Miller serves on the College's Leadership Council. She is a member of several College committees including Strategic Enrollment Management (SEM) Committee, Institutional Accreditation Committee (IAC), Data Governance Committee, and Partnership Taskforce - Clarkson Regional Health Services (CRHS) at the College. She previously served as a consultant to the Institutional Review Board (IRB). She serves as the institutional IPEDS Keyholder, the Data Update Coordinator for the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) Canopy System, is a member of the regional Heartland Pathways Consortium and the national organization - the Association for Institutional Research (AIR). She serves on numerous dissertation committees for both past graduates and current students. Dr. Miller serves as a mentor to several Clarkson College students, alumni, and current employees.
Dr. Miller received her BS degree in Biochemical Pharmacology, BA degree in Psychology, and a Minor in Medicinal Chemistry from the State University of New York (SUNY) - University at Buffalo. Dr. Miller then received her PhD degree in Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics from State University of New York (SUNY) - University at Buffalo/Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI). Dr. Miller did her post-doctorate fellowship work at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) Eppley Cancer Institute followed by her transition to therapeutics development in neuroscience (specifically traumatic brain injury) at the College of Pharmacy prior to her tenure at the College.
Her passion is data, retention of our students, and strategizing how to improve student success.
“There is nothing impossible to they who will try.” — Alexander the Great
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EDD 942 - Dissertation II
Aksamit, Daniel and Miller, Neka. Conference Presentation, “Statistical Analysis of Student Retention at a Private, Midwestern University.” Joint Statistical Meeting, Statistical and Data Science: Informing Policy and Countering Misinformation, Portland, Oregon 2024
Higher Learning Commission Annual Conference Invited Presentation: “Persistence and Completion: Strategies from the Heartland,” Chicago, IL, April 8, 2018, in conjunction with Wayne State College (Sue Sydow), UNO (Hank Robinson and Jill Russell), and colleagues at Clarkson (Neka Simms and Ann Hagenau).
Simms, N.A., Rajput, A., Sharratt, E.A. et al. Transforming growth factor-β suppresses metastasis in a subset of human colon carcinoma cells. BMC Cancer 12, 221 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-12-221
Sabbah DA, Simms NA, Brattain MG, Vennerstrom JL, Zhong H. Biological evaluation and docking studies of recently identified inhibitors of phosphoinositide-3-kinases. Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2012 Jan 15;22(2):876-80. doi: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2011.12.044. Epub 2011 Dec 13. PMID: 22212721; PMCID: PMC4472446.
Ongchin M, Sharratt E, Dominguez I, Simms NA, Wang J, Cheney R, LeVea C, Brattain M, Rajput A. The effects of epidermal growth factor receptor activation and attenuation of the TGFbeta pathway in an orthotopic model of colon cancer. J Surg Res. 2009 Oct;156(2):250-6. doi: 10.1016/j.jss.2009.02.002. Epub 2009 Mar 5. PMID: 19524264.
Are C, Simms NA, Rajput A, Brattain M. The role of transforming growth factor-beta in suppression of hepatic metastasis from colon cancer. HPB (Oxford). 2010 Sep;12(7):498-506. doi: 10.1111/j.1477-2574.2010.00219.x. Erratum in: HPB (Oxford). 2011 Aug;13(8):593. Rajupt, Ashwani [corrected to Rajput, Ashwani]. PMID: 20815859; PMCID: PMC3030759.