Prof. Amit Acharya was named an inaugural member of the Simons Pivot Fellowship, awarded to "researchers who have a strong track record of success and achievement in their current field, as well as a deep interest, curiosity and drive to make contributions to a new discipline."

Abhishek Arora and Prof. Amit Acharya published a manuscript (with Dr. Rajat Arora) in Acta Materialia entitled, "Mechanics of micropillar confined thin film plasticity."

Our team hosted a Mini-Symposium ("Topological Defects in Mechanics, Mathematics, Physics, and Beyond") at WCCM 2022.

Prof. Irene Fonseca received the International Society for the Interaction of Mechanics and Mathematics Senior Prize, awarded to "outstanding scientists whose work is at the convergence of mechanics and mathematics."

Prof. Franziska Weber received an NSF CAREER award for her work on mathematical and numerical analysis of fluids under magnetic forces.

Profs. Amit Acharya, Alan Newell, and Shankar Venkataramani published a manuscript (with Dr. Chiqun Zhang) in Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena entitled, "Computing with non-orientable defects: Nematics, smectics and natural patterns."

Prof. Amit Acharya published a manuscript (with Dr. Léo Morin) in Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering entitled, "Analysis of a model of field crack mechanics for brittle materials."

Prof. Amit Acharya shared his work on "An Action Functional for Nonlinear Dislocation Dynamics" in a talk at the Banach Center (July 2021).

Profs. Shankar Venkataramani and Alan Newell published a manuscript in Physics Letters B entitled, "Disk galaxies and their dark halos as self-organized patterns."

Profs. Shankar Venkataramani and Alan Newell published a manuscript in The European Physical Journal entitled, "Pattern dark matter and galaxy scaling relations."

Prof. Jerry Wang shared his work (with Mr. Shuyuan Wang) on molecular simulation of liquid crystals under nanoscale confinement in a talk at APS Division of Fluid Dynamics (November 2020).

Our GCR project and team were profiled by the CMU College of Engineering.