The 23nd Annual Melosh Competition for the Best Student Paper on Finite Element Analysis will be held at Duke University on April 29, 2011.  The competition has become one of the premier graduate student events in the broad area of mechanics. 

Details of the competition and submission procedure can be found here.  The extended abstracts are due on January 7, 2011.  I want to emphasize that the competition is really one on computational science. As a result, papers on meshfree methods, molecular dynamics methods, and their coupling with the FEM, etc., are welcome.  Please encourage your colleagues working in computational science and finite element methods/ mechanics to consider applying.