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Congratulations to Department of Civil Engineering graduate student Xiaohui Tu, who was recently awarded second place in the EMI Computational Mechanics Student Poster Competition for her poster, “Application of Wavelet-Enriched Hierarchical Finite Element Formulation in Simulating Crack Propagation in Polycrystalline Microstructure with the Coupled Crystal Plasticity-Phase Field Model”! Sponsored by the Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI)…

Winning project teams—chosen from a record 222 proposals—include 120 individuals from across the university.

Six award recipients are from the Whiting School of Engineering.

Congratulations to the following students who were honored at the annual WSE Convocation Awards Ceremony! This event is a celebration of student and faculty achievement at the Whiting School of Engineering. American Society of Civil Engineers Maryland Section Scholarship Recipient: Awoenam Mauna-Woanya The ASCE Maryland Section Scholarship is awarded to an undergraduate member of Johns…

ASME, SES, and ICCM have recognized him for his contributions to engineering mechanics.

Somnath Ghosh, the Michael G. Callas Chair Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, was recently elected as Fellow of the Society of Engineering Science (SES). Per the SES website, “A fellow shall be an individual who is distinguished in some field in which the Society has interest, who has been a Regular or Life…

Congratulations to Prof. Somnath Ghosh, Michael G. Callas Chair Professor, who received the ICCM 2018 Investigator Medal from the International Conference on Computational Methods in Rome Italy on August 6, 2018. According to the conference committee, the Medal is presented to honor up to one individual who has made outstanding and sustained contributions in the…

Congratulations to Prof. Tak Igusa who will receive two 2018 Discovery Awards as part of cross-disciplinary teams! Projects selected for Discovery Awards are poised to arrive at important discoveries or creative works and spark new, synergistic interactions between investigators across the institution while leading to work of the highest quality and impact. Below are the…

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Sauleh Siddiqui, who has been selected to receive one of thirty-two 2018 Johns Hopkins Catalyst Awards. Initiated in 2015, these grant awards of up to $75,000 support the promising research and creative endeavors of early career faculty with the goal of launching them on a path to a sustainable and rewarding…

Congratulations to CE graduate student Justin Unger, who was recently awarded the 2018 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship Award! Justin was selected from over 3600 applicants to receive the award in recognition of his academic excellence and Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) achievements. Justin is part of Prof. Jamie Guest’s Topology…

Congratulations to Prof. Ben Schafer for co-authoring “Experimental Seismic Response of a Full-Scale Cold-Formed Steel-Framed Building. 1: System-Level Response,” which was selected by the ASCE Society Awards Committee to receive the 2018 Norman Medal. The first author is Kara Peterman (M.S. ’11, Ph.D. ’14) and other JHU-related co-authors are Prof. Schafer, Matt Stehman (Ph.D. ’14),…