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• Prof. R. Ballarini with Prof. A. Heuer, S. Kamat and X. Su of the Material Science department published "Structural basis for the fracture toughness of the shell of the conch Strombus gigas" in Nature. Campus New Article.
• Prof. R. Ballarini and D. Lewicki's paper Effect of Rim Thickness on Gear Crack Propagation Path was voted best technical paper in the NASA Lewis Structures Division. 
• Prof. A. Saada is a recipient of the Meritorious Service Award from the Case Alumni Association. 
• Brian Thornton has received a Richard W. Sicka Fellowship for the 97-98 academic year. 
• Prof. A. Jennings is the 1997 Witkke Award Winner 
• Profs. Gasparini, Jennings and Panoskaltsis are 1997 Witkke Award Nominees. 
• Prof. D. Gasparini received the ASME Pressure Vessels and Piping Division Literature Award for the paper "Ratcheting in Cyclic Plasticity of Elbow Loaded by Prescribed Multiaxial Stochastic Time Series"