Message from Ben Freund, President of the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
Members of the International Mechanics Community
Dear Mechanics Colleagues,
Batchelor Prize
Howard Stone won the first Batchelor Prize
Howard Stone, of the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has won the first Batchelor Prize. The newly established Prize is sponsored by Cambridge University Press and the Journal of Fluid Mechanics. The award of US$25,000 will be presented at the International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM), taking place in Adelaide in August 2008. Howard is iMechanica user number 96.