Call for Nominations for the Eshelby Mechanics Award for Young Faculty

It is my pleasure to solicit nominations for the "Eshelby Mechanics Award for Young Faculty". This award, launched last year, is given annually to rapidly emerging junior faculty who exemplify the creative use and development of mechanics. The intent of the award is to promote the field of mechanics, especially among young researchers. While interdisciplinary work that bridges mechanics with physics, chemistry, biology and other disciplines is encouraged, the ideal awardee will demonstrate clear inspiration from mechanics in his/her research.

The award will consist of $ 1500 cash and a commemorative plaque.

Eligibility: The nominee must be below the age of forty and in a tenured or tenure-track faculty position or an independent researcher in a national laboratory. Exceptions to the age limitation may be made for both men and women that have taken career breaks for family reasons or have had a late entry into their independent research careers. Faculty from the University of Houston are not eligible to nominate, be nominated, participate in the selection process or endorse any candidate.

Nomination and Selection: The nominator should fill the attached form and in addition to his/her own letter, attach recommendation letters from two other researchers. The remainder of the nomination package will simply consist of the nominee's detailed curriculum vitae. The entire package should be emailed as a single pdf to psharma@uh.edu by December 5th of every year. Nominations and recommendations letters from PhD and Post-Doctoral advisors are discouraged. The selection committee will consist of five distinguished mechanics faculty from around the world. The selection committee members may change from year to year and will most often be journal editors. Last year, the selection committee consisted of: K. Ravi-chandar (UT Austin), Huajian Gao (Brown University), Kaushik Bhattacharya (Caltech), Roger Fosdick (Minnesota University), and Yonggang Huang (Northwestern University).