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Recent Progress in Curvilinear Electronics and Mechanics

Jianliang Xiao

Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder

1. Introduction

Professor John Rogers, Swanlund Chair Professor of Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, was recently elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Congratulations to John!

Here is the link to the NAS press release: http://www.nasonline.org/news-and-multimedia/news/april-28-2015-NAS-Election.html

Professor John Rogers is the recepient of the Robert Henry Thurston Lecture Award this year, and he will give the Thurston Lecture at 10am on Monday, November 18 during the ASME IMECE 2013. The location is the Elizabeth Ballroom (section H), 2nd floor at the Manchester Grand Hyatt.

The Department of Mechanical Engineering at the
University of Colorado Boulder invites applications for a tenure-track faculty
position in the area of Solid Mechanics. 

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to
micro/nano-scale solid mechanics, mechanics of soft matter, mechanics of
advanced technologies, mechanics of materials for energy applications,
computational mechanics and multi-scale modeling, mechanics of friction and
adhesion, and transport-coupled mechanics. 

Many people from mechnaics community will receive prestigious awards from ASME this year.

Ted Belytschko will receive the ASME Honorary Membership;

Wei Cai will receive the Tom Hughes Young Investigator Medal;

T.W. Chou will receive the Nadai Medal;

Richard Christensen will receive the Timoshenko Medal;

Normal Fleck will receive the Koiter Medal;

Yonggang Huang will receive the Drucker Medal;

Sia Nemat-Nasser will receive the ASME Medal;

Ting Zhu and Vicky Nguyen will receive the Sia Nemat-Nasser early career medal.

In today's (May 2) issue of Nature, we report a recent achievement in applying mechanics principles of stretchable electronics and optics to create biologically inspired artificial compound eye cameras. It was also highlighted in the Nature News & Views, "Optical devices: Seeing the world through an insect's eyes".