Jim Miller was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering on October 5. Jim was recognized for his "research on the theory and modeling of combustion chemistry that has led to universally applied codes for combustion modeling." Gary Grest, a Sandia staff member in Albuquerque, was elected at the same time.

Jim received his doctorate from Cornell University in 1974 and has worked at Sandia since that time. He was part of the founding staff of the Combustion Research Facility in 1980 and has had the title "Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff" since 1989. His research interests are principally in combustion chemistry and theoretical chemical kinetics. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the American Chemical Society and The Combustion Institute, from whom he received the Silver Medal in 1990 and the Lewis Gold Medal in 2006. Jim currently serves as an associate editor of Combustion and Flame and is on the editorial advisory boards of The Journal of Physical Chemistry and Theoretical Chemistry Accounts. A special issue of The Journal of Physical Chemistry A (May 17, 2007) was devoted to a James A. Miller Festschrift in celebration of his 60th birthday.