Dec 31st in #Athens — with sunsets like this no wonder Plato saw the sun as the ultimate source of truth! #Farewell2024 #theory_of_forms

from my experimental mechanics class to an FEA engineering internship—emails like this remind me exactly what is REAL #academic impact. Watching students find their path is the greatest reward. #ThisIsImpact #EngineeringEducation GTaerospace

Entropic elasticity

♻️ We're the first to confront the #plastic #waste issue purely from a solid #mechanics perspective. Despite global efforts, 400M+ tons of plastic are produced annually and less than 10% is #recycled—mainly due to the degraded, inconsistent properties of recycled plastics. ♻️

art. science. all in play! youtube.com/watch?v=An3uI5…

🚀 Congratulations to Grace Gu, winner of the 2025 Journal of Polymer Science Innovation Award! 🏆 Honored for pioneering AI-driven polymer design & intelligent additive manufacturing. She’ll be recognized at #ACSFall2025 with ACS PMSE Division & Journal of Polymer Science 🎉 #PolymerScience

Enjoyed an excellent IUTAM symposium in Cambridge University . Presented our JMPS work on mechanics-informed symbolic regression & its impact on understanding the mechanics of recycled plastics — while learnt so much from mechanics giants.

From recycled + renewable feedstocks to reconfigurable #structures — now in Matter_CP 🌍🚀 Eco-voxels — reconfigurable building blocks made from recycled carbon fiber and bio-based polymers. Designed to slash construction emissions on Earth by up to 40% with maintaining

Submissions are open for 2025 Society of Engineering Science (SES) in Atlanta! 🔧🌱 From recycling & eco-manufacturing to quantum computing & VR, mechanics can support the theory, computation & experiments driving the innovations of tomorrow 🚀👉 Submit your abstract!

How would you go from raw mechanical testing data to fitting a constitutive model? Dr. Sean Teller of Veryst Engineering delivered an outstanding hands-on workshop to our mechanics & structures graduate students today, connecting mechanical testing methods, continuum-mechanics

🌍♻️🚀 Lessons from Earth. Blueprints for Mars. My TEDxAtlanta talk explores how the same resourcefulness that helps us reuse and recycle plastic waste on Earth could help us construct life-supporting habitats on Mars. It’s a story about turning scarcity into strength - using

A translucent mastic ‘tear’ on #Chios bark - a natural thermoset 🧐