Congratulations to assistant professor Baoxing Xu at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering who has recently received a 2020 ONR Young Investigator Award and the 2020 ASME Sia Nemat-Nasser Early Career Award.
According to The Office of Naval Research (ONR), the ONR Young Investigator Program (YIP) is one of the nation's oldest and most selective basic research early career awards in science and technology. Its purpose is to fund tenure-track academic researchers, or equivalent, whose scientific pursuits show outstanding promise for supporting the Department of Defense, while also promoting their professional development. Xu is among the 25 scientists who have been selected to receive a 2020 YIP grant from 260 applicants nationwide.
Xu was also selected for the 2020 ASME Sia Nemat-Nasser Early Career Award “for the development of multiphysics interface mechanics for creative applications in the novel design and assembly of heterogeneous structures, film electronics and softhard integrated materials.” This award recognizes early career research excellence in the areas of experimental, computational, and theoretical mechanics and materials by young investigators who are within ten years after their Ph.D. degree. To read more about the award, click here.