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HEMI News

Somnath Ghosh named Fellow of The Mineral, Metals, and Materials Society

HEMI is pleased to congratulate Somnath Ghosh – HEMI Fellow, director of the Computational Mechanics Research Laboratory, and M. G....

HEMI Fellow Sarah Hörst Receives James B. Macelwane Medal by the American Geophysical Union

HEMI is pleased to congratulate Sarah Hörst – HEMI Fellow, principal investigator at the Hörst Group and assistant professor in...

HEMI Fellow Jaafar El-Awady Identifies New Method to Predict Cracks in Metal Before They Are Visible

Congratulations to Jaafar El-Awady, HEMI Fellow and associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, for discovering a new method to predict...

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