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

- K.T. Ramesh, Alonzo G. Decker Jr. Professor of Science and Engineering

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Three HEMI Fellows recognized by The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS)

Kevin Hemker (left), Tim Rupert (right), and Jaafar El-Awady (not pictured) received awards at this year’s TMS Annual Meeting in...

Student researchers play key role in bridge safety assessment

One year after the Key Bridge collision in Baltimore, a team of Johns Hopkins students has helped identify which major...

Major U.S. bridges at high risk of being struck by ships

New analysis by Johns Hopkins researchers finds some bridges are likely to sustain catastrophic hits within the next few decades...

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

HEMI cuts across three divisions within Johns Hopkins University: the Whiting School of Engineering, the Krieger School of Arts & Sciences, and the Applied Physics Laboratory.

11 universities partner with Johns Hopkins to create the Institute.

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Johns Hopkins University and the following organizations:

Army Educational Outreach Program California Institute of Technology CCDC Army Research Laboratory Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (UK) Defense Threat Reduction Agency Drexel University Goddard Space Flight Center Ernst Mach Institut (Germany) ETH Zurich HEMI Corporate Partners Imperial College of London Institute of Shock Physics (UK) Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory - Planetary Impact Laboratory

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Lehigh University Lightweight Innovations for Tomorrow Maryland Advanced Research Computing Center Maryland Institute College of Art Materials Research Data Alliance 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 Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute Southwest Research Institute Texas A&M University University of California, Santa Barbara University of Delaware University of Houston University of North Carolina at Charlotte University of Texas at San Antonio US Army Aberdeen Test Center United States Advanced Ceramics Association Washington State University Washington University in St. Louis Wilmer Eye Institute

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