The 19th Annual Melosh Competition for the Best Student Paper in Finite Element Analysis was held last Friday, April 27, at ETH Zurich. Two medalists were selected this year from the six finalists. The 2007 Melosh Medalists are Vikram Gavini, from Caltech, and Michael Hain, from Leibniz University, Hannover.

Mr. Gavini presented the paper "Ab-initio calculations: a non-periodic finite-element approach to density functional theory," and Mr. Hain presented the paper "A multi-scale approach for frost heave of hardened cement paste and mortar." Please join me in congratulating these outstanding young scholars!