Subra Suresh has been chosen to deliver the 2009 Edward DeMille Campbell Memorial Award Lecture to the American Society of Materials International, one of the truly prestigious events and awards of the Society. Suresh will receive the award and deliver the Campbell lecture during the combined annual meeting of American Society of Materials International, the American Ceramics Society, and the Mineral, Metals, and Materials Society in Pittsburgh in September 2009.

The former head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Suresh is currently Dean of the School of Engineering and Vannevar Bush Professor of Engineering at MIT. His research focuses on the mechanical responses of single biological cells and molecules, and the implications of these responses for human health and diseases. His prior and ongoing work has also led to seminal contributions in the area of nano- and micro-scale mechanical properties of engineered materials. He is the author of over 210 research articles in international journals, co-editor of five books, and co-inventor on fourteen U.S. and international patents. More than 100 students, post-doctoral associates, and research scientists who trained in his group occupy prominent positions in academe, industry, and government throughout the world. He has authored or co-authored three books: Fatigue of Materials, Fundamentals of Functionally Graded Materials, and Thin Film Materials.

The annual Edward DeMille Campbell Memorial Lecture was inaugurated in 1926 in recognition of the scientific contributions to the metallurgical profession by Edward DeMille Campbell. He was an honorary member of ASM International and was on the faculty at the University of Michigan, where he was head professor of Chemistry and Metallurgy and Director of the Chemical Laboratory, from 1890 until his death in 1925. The American Society of Materials International was founded in 1918 and has 50,000 members in 17 countries.