(Deadline Nov 30th, 2020) 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 in 2012, 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. Previous year recipients include: Vicky Nguyen and Kaushik Dayal (2012), Liping Liu (2013), Ken Kamrin (2014), Samantha Daly (2015), Yong Zhu (2016), Celia Reina, Yihui Zhang (2017), Xiaoyan Li (2018) and Shuman Xia (2019). More information on the award may be obtained from this following Wikipedia link.

The award will consist of $ 1500 cash and a commemorative plaque. The awardees are formally recognized at the annual Applied Mechanics Division Banquet at the ASME-IMECE meeting.

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. More precisely, the age eligibility is "The candidate must not have reached her/his 41st birthday by December 31st of the year subsequent to the nomination year."

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 November 30, 2020. Nominations and recommendations letters from PhD and Post-Doctoral advisors are discouraged. The selection committee has remained largely unchanged and will consist this year of: K. Ravi-chandar (UT Austin), Huajian Gao (Brown University), G. Ravichandran (Caltech), Roger Fosdick (Minnesota University), and Yonggang Huang (Northwestern University).