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Also shout out to Zumrat Usmanova, who did the entire work. Zumrat Usmanova is the recent recipient of 2024 best lightening talk award from NEW.Mech and 2025 Peebles Award from the The Adhesion Society . She will give the talk soon in the The Adhesion Society annual meeting on February 17.

I am excited to share that my group received the prestigious NSF Faculty Early Career Award (CAREER) #NSFfunded U.S. National Science Foundation. This marks a milestone in my research career as it is my first federal grant. We will work on "Modular Design of Bioadhesives for Implantation", aiming to

John Hutchinson wins the 2025 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Mechanical Engineering fi.edu/en/awards/laur…

Another enjoyable year with The Adhesion Society . Zumrat Usmanova won the Alan Gent Distinguished Student Paper Award (2nd place) from an excellent and highly competitive cohort. As a long-time Gent disciple, I share a lot of honor and excitement with my student. Way to go!

Thank Shaoting Lin for the tremendous effort. This will be a great event for our academic and industrial colleagues and our students. We also look forward to continuing this momentum in the following years. Such broader impacts would never happen without the support from U.S. National Science Foundation.

Thanks so much to my friend Taylor Sparks and his awesome Materialism Podcast podcast for having me! It was so fun spending time together & talking about #biomatter and some ways of turning it into #bioplastics! 🔊youtu.be/rRXc854tcZU?si… open.spotify.com/episode/5NwE4f… #sustainability

My collaborator Shaoting Lin and I are grateful to NSF and our Program Directors at the MoMS program for their continuous support for fundamental science. I want to send my highest respect and best wishes to all our unsung heroes at U.S. National Science Foundation during this special time.

Happy to present our latest paper: Bridging hard and soft: Mechanical metamaterials enable rigid torque transmission in soft robots science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

I will give an invited talk on "Extremely tough networks: from polymers to metamaterials" American Physical Society conference tomorrow, Mar 20.

Thank you EML Webinar for featuring our recent effort. I owe a great lot to U.S. National Science Foundation, the mechanics community, mentors, colleagues, Northeastern COE, students, and family. We are committed to serving the community, society, and advancing the fundamental science.

Indeed! A great get-together.

Extreme Mechanics Letters (EML) is extremely excited to announce the appointment of Professor Xuanhe Zhao (Xuanhe Zhao) of MIT as co-Editor-in-Chief of EML. Professor Zhao is a world renowned expert in mechanics of materials and soft robotics.

The 2025 Winston Chen Lecture at Harvard University Force-triggered growth of double network hydrogels Jian Ping Gong Hokkaido University 4 April 2025, Friday 11:00 am Boston Pierce Hall 301 The talk is open to all. Zoom link: urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https… Please kindly repost.

Congratulations to Zumrat Usmanova again! 🎉 She is studying fracture mechanics of architected materials and adhesives. What a beautiful topic!

We believe bioadhesive for long term implantation not only needs to be strong but also mechanically match with the target tissue. For example, brain is soft and squishy while tendon is tough and resilient. Building such bioadhesive implants can enable safe and compatible

Calling on senior PhD students and postdocs to join the 2nd Future Faculty Symposium at the 2025 SES Annual Technical Meeting. Open to everyone. Apply for travel support today! Nanshu Lu @ UT-Austin Society of Engineering Science

To better protect the screens on folding smartphones, this Northeastern U. professor is reinventing tape. Read more: bit.ly/4ju5GyW

SoR is excited to announce that Safa Jamali is the Society of Rheology 2025 Metzner awardee for contributions to the understanding of #suspensions, attractive #colloids, and #machine_learning techniques in rheology. We will celebrate Safa at our annual meeting this October!

Adding to the impressive list of honors he has accumulated over the course of his professional career, Gregory Abowd — dean of Northeastern COE — has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Read more: bit.ly/3Faj7VJ

Join us for our upcoming University-Industry Workshop “High-Throughput Soft Material Development” on May 30th. We expect to have ~ 50 participants from more than 10 Universities and Industrials. You may also attend the event via zoom ID: 670 705 8733