The G.I. Taylor Medal Symposium, honoring Professor Arif Masud, will be held during the Society of Engineering Science's 56th Annual Meeting on October 13-15, 2019, on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis, Mo. The symposium topic is Variational Multiscale Methods in Mechanics and will feature a number of distinguished speakers, including fellow CEE at Illinois faculty member Assistant Professor Jinhui Yan.
Masud was awarded the 2019 G. I. Taylor Medal by the Society of Engineering Science in recognition of “sustained and outstanding research contributions to the area of fluid mechanics.” Read more at http://cee.illinois.edu/news/masud-awarded-gi-taylor-medal
Update: In January 2021, a special issue of Mechanics-Research Communications has been published in Masud's honor. Available here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/mechanics-research-communications/special-issue/103XQF3VXC3