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L. Cate Brinson co-authored a new book, titled Polymer Engineering Science and Viscoelasticity.

Sridhar Krishnaswamy and the Center for Quality Engineering and Failure Prevention received a Partnerships for Internal Research and Education (PIRE) grant from the National Science Foundation. This five-year, $2.5 million program will establish a global partnership of universities, laboratories, and companies.

Wei Chen was elected to the advisory board of the Design Society.

Ed Colgate was named the first editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Haptics.

James Conley was awarded “Faculty of the Year” by the Master of Product Development Program.

Isaac Daniel was elected fellow of the American Society for Composites.

Kori Ehmann received the 2008 SME (Society of Manufacturing Engineers) Gold Medal Award.

Horacio Espinosa was selected to receive the 2008 Lazan Award from the Society for Experimental Mechanics and the 2007 Young Investigator Medal from the Society of Engineering Science.

Dean Ho received a V Foundation for Cancer Research Scholar Award and was invited to serve as an associate editor of Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology.

Leon Keer was appointed to the editorial board of Mechanics Research Communications.

Wing Kam Liu will receive the John von Neumann Medal from USACM and the Robert Henry Thurston Lecture Award from ASME. He was also appointed chair of the newly developed ASME Nanotechnology Council.

Kevin Lynch received the SAE Ralph Teetor Educational Award, was named the Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence at Northwestern, and was selected to the Defense Science Study Group.

John Rudnicki received the Maurice A. Biot award of the ASCE and was elected chair of the DOE Geosciences Council.

Q. Jane Wang and her team were awarded $1 million for the congressional earmark project Extreme-Condition Military Vehicle Tribology.

Jan Achenbach receives National Medal of Science

An arms race: Building better prosthetic limbs

Exploring the depths of space: Research helps solve key problems for missions to Saturn and beyond

Professor Chang Liu joins mechanical engineering department

ASME Applied Mechanics Division honors Ted Belytschko

New professor focuses on the convergence of mechanics, photonics, energy, and biology

Cate Brinson takes the helm!

Faculty honors and awards