The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to congratulate Professor Nancy R. Sottos, Maybelle Leland Swanlund Endowed Chair of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, as the recipient of the 2026 Stephen P. Timoshenko Medal.
The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to congratulate Professor David Steigmann, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley, as the recipient of the 2026 Warner T. Koiter Medal.
The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to congratulate Professor Yihui Zhang, Professor of Engineering Mechanics at Tsinghua University, as the recipient of the 2026 Daniel C. Drucker Medal. This award, which includes a medal, a certificate, and an honorarium, will be presented at the AMD Honors and Awards Banquet, during the 2026 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE 2026), to be held during November 8 – 12, 2026, at the Vancouver Convention Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to congratulate Professor Sinan Keten, Jan and Marcia Achenbach Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northwestern University, as the recipient of the 2026 Zdeněk P. Bažant Medal.
The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to congratulate the recipients of the 2025 Robert M. and Mary Haythornthwaite Foundation* Research Initiation Grants Awards: Prof. Vatsa Gandhi (University of California at Los Angles), Prof. Chase Hartquist (University of Florida), Prof. Junsoo Kim (Northwestern University), Prof. Emily Sanders (Georgia Institute of Technology), and Prof. Angkur JD Shaikeea (California Institute of Technology).
The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to congratulate the recipients of the 2025 Robert M. and Mary Haythornthwaite Foundation Student Travel Awards: Victor Riera Naranjo (Georgia Institute of Technology), Omar M.
The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to congratulate Professor Ruike Renee Zhao, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, as the recipient of the 2026 Thomas J. R. Hughes Young Investigator Award.
The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to congratulate Professor Shaofan Li, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley, as the recipient of the 2026 Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Award.