Howard A. Stone, of Harvard University, is elected to the National Academy of Engineering, for the development of fundamental concepts and novel applications in microfluidics and for improving the understanding of small-scale, viscous-flow phenomena. Here is the full list of members elected in 2009.
It gives us special pleasure to announce that Pradeep Sharma, of the University of Houston, has been selected as the recipient of the 2009 Thomas J.R. Hughes Young Investigator Award.
Name Olgierd Zienkiewicz
Nationality British
Birth date 18 May 1921
Birth place Caterham, UK
Date of death 2 January 2009
Place of death Swansea, UK
Published on pages xv to xxvi of Multiscale Deformation and Fracture in Materials and Structures: The James R. Rice 60th Anniversary Volume, edited by Tze-jer Chuang and John W. Rudnicki, Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, Volume 84, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 2001. This text is also available for download as a PDF file or a WORD file.
Professor Yonggang Huang from Northwestern University presented this
year's Nowinski Lecture at the University of Delaware on 12/5/2008, http://www.udel.edu/udaily/2009/nov/nowinskilecture112108.html.
Evelyn L. Hu, a pioneer in the fabrication of nanoscale electronic and photonic devices, has been named Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering in Harvard University’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), effective Jan. 1, 2009. Read more
Delivered at the Annual Dinner of the Applied Mechanics Division, in the Back Bay Ballroom, Sheraton Hotel, Boston, in the evening of 4 November 2008, the Election Day of the United States of America
