{"426371":{"#nid":"426371","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Global Women\u0027s Initiative recognizes AE\u0027s Sara Miller","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGT-AE sophomore Sara Miller doesn\u2019t speak loudly, but her ambitions are decidedly\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003Ehigh-decibel\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to pursuing a degree in aerospace engineering at Georgia Tech, the soft-spoken 20-year-old continues to do cognitive psychology research with an NYU professor with whom she began working while in high school.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShe is currently working with AE Prof. Joseph H. Saleh on a project mapping the craters on near-earth objects. And next semester she will do an internship focusing on 3D modeling at the Marshall Space Center in Huntsville.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI\u2019ve always had NASA\u2019s stars in my eyes,\u201d she said. \u201cThat\u2019s always been my dream.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech and NASA are not alone in recognizing Miller\u2019s drive. This fall, the Atlanta-based Womenetics organization chose Miller to receive one of just five 2014 Advancing Aspirations Global Scholarships. Miller and the other four awardees were flown to the group\u2019s Global Women\u2019s Initiative conference in Chicago on Nov. 12 to receive their $2,500 awards.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt wasn\u2019t a great time to get pulled away from my studies,\u201d she said of her mid-semester trip to Chicago.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBut it was a great reason. Over the course of a little less than 48 hours, I got to know four different CEOs on a first name basis.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt was Miller\u2019s essay,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/img\/Sara%20Miller-Essay-Edited%20.pdf\u0022\u003E\u201cConfidence and Risk,\u003C\/a\u003E\u201d that caught the judges\u2019 attention.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn it, Miller methodically reviewed literature that documents a persistent chasm between women\u2019s personal aspirations and their publicly acknowledged achievements.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe always talk about \u2018the father or modern medicine\u2019 or \u2018the father of modern chemistry\u2019 as thought women played no role at all,\u201d she said of her research. \u201cWe know that women played a role \u2013 100 years ago and today \u2013 but we don\u2019t hear about it.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENot regularly, anyway. In her essay, Miller points to GT-AE alumna Jenny Lentz Moore -- a Division 1 athlete, Navy Fighter Pilot, and mother -- as someone who should be recognized. Moore was profiled in a recent edition of the GT Alumni Magazine.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI\u2019m surprised it\u2019s taken me this long to hear about her,\u201d she said. \u201cShe\u2019s someone who has done it all. We need to know more about women like Jennie. She\u2019s not the only one.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMost who know Miller would say they expect to hear more about her \u2013 in the coming months, years, and decades. What\u2019s unclear is what direction she will pursue. Her collaboration with Stonybrook Professor Nancy Franklin on the effects of negative emotions on memory has already produced some preliminary results; the two are considering another, related vein of research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMiller remains committed to her NASA dreams, but she isn\u2019t crossing anything off her career \u2018bucket list\u2019 just yet.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cEventually, I could see myself working on artificial intelligence, as a part of my work in space exploration,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd I hope it all includes a Ph.D. because I love doing the research.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWe hope so, too.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"GT-AE sophomore Sara Miller doesn\u2019t speak loudly, but her ambitions are decidedly high-decibel"}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-07-16 16:38:23","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:12","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-11-13T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2014-11-13T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"171457","name":"Sara Miller"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["communications@ae.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}