Professor Ange-Therese Akono received the 2021 Leonardo da Vinci Award from the Engineering Mechanics Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers, recognizing her groundbreaking developments in the field of engineering mechanics and mechanical sciences.
Professor Ludmilla Aristilde received the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in recognition of her research accomplishments. The award will support her collaboration and international exchange with Professor Lars Angenent at the University of Tübingen.
Professor Alessandro Rotta Loria received the 2021 Promising Investigator Contest (e-PIC) Award from the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics in recognition of his early-career contributions to the geomechanics field.
Professor Hani Mahmassani received the Transportation Research Board’s 2021 Roy W. Crum Award for outstanding achievement in transportation research.
Bill Yen, a third-year undergraduate minoring in environmental engineering and co-president of the Northwestern chapter of Engineers for a Sustainable World, presented on the value of participating in student groups during the COVID-19 pandemic as part of last spring’s One McCormick lecture series.
PhD candidate Jiaxin Chen and PhD student Yunzhi Xu, both members of Professor Ange-Therese Akono’s research group, each received US National Committee for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (USNC/TAM) Early Career Attendee Fellowships.
