Professor Andres Arrieta of Purdue along with Falk Runkel, Giulio Molinari, and Paolo Ermanni of ETH Zurich were awarded the 2017 Best Paper Award in Dynamics and Control of Adaptive Structures for their paper titled "Novel Chiral Structure with Tailored Mechanical Response Exploiting Elastic Instabilities". The award is organized by the ASME Technical Committee on Adaptive Systems Dynamics and Control which chooses from all the papers presented during the Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems SMASIS2016 on the topic of Dynamics and Control of Adaptive Structures for the year 2016.