“We Take Apart the very First Instants of Destruction and Use Them
to Make the World a Safer Place.”

- Professor K.T. Ramesh, Director of the Johns Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute

HEMI News

Justin Moreno and Scott McGhee Receive 2021 Whiting School of Engineering Staff Excellence Awards

HEMI is pleased to announce that team members Justin Moreno and Scott McGhee were selected as winners of 2021 Whiting...

Inaugural Winners of the Mark O. Robbins Prize in High Performance Computing and the Robbins Future Faculty Award Announced

Established last year to recognize outstanding performance by doctoral and post-doctoral students in high-performance computing, the awards honor the legacy...

HEMI Fellow Ryan Hurley Receives Mentor of the Year Award from the U.S. Army Educational Outreach Program

Ryan Hurley, HEMI Fellow and assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, has received the annual Mentor of the...

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The impact energy in an asteroid 1km in diameter can be equal to 30 billion Hiroshima atom bombs.

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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Lehigh University Lightweight Innovations for Tomorrow Maryland Advanced Research Computing Center Maryland Institute College of Art Missile Defense Agency Morgan State University NASA National Institutes of Health New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology North Carolina A&T State University Protection Engineering Consultants Purdue University Rutgers University

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“We Take Apart the very First Instants of Destruction and Use Themto Make the World a Safer Place.”