The US National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (USNCTAM) publishes periodic Reports on Recent Trends in Mechanics. An archive of recent reports can be found at the Committee’s website. The USNCTAM has reorganized the process for generating such reports; a SubCommittee (K. Ravi‐Chandar, Chair (ravi [at] utexas.edu), G. McKinley, Vice‐Chair (gareth [at] MIT.EDU), A. Karagozian (ark [at] seas.ucla.edu) and E. Tadmor (tadmor [at] cscamm.umd.edu) has been charged with developing these reports. See the attached file for further detail.