When K.T. Ramesh, the Alonzo G. Decker Jr. Chair in Science and Engineering and director of the Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute, talks about how materials behave under extreme impact, it\u2019s hard not to imagine asteroids slamming into Earth. But for much of HEMI\u2019s work\u2014theoretical, computational, and basic\u2014few images exist to show how materials change at the atomic level.<\/p>\n
Now, through a partnership with the Maryland Institute College of Art, HEMI researchers hope to connect the dots\u2014visually\u2014about what happens when things collide at speeds faster than sound. The HEMI Extreme Arts Program, funded with a $15,000 seed grant, will support an intern as well as a future artist-in-residence. \u201cWe\u2019re not sure where this will lead,\u201d says Civil Engineering’s Lori Graham-Brady, associate director of HEMI. \u201cIt could be a piece of abstract art, an engaging informational graphic, a sculpture \u2026 But we will\u00a0learn by looking at our research from a completely different perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When K.T. Ramesh, the Alonzo G. Decker Jr. Chair in Science and Engineering and director of the Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute, talks about how materials behave under extreme impact, it\u2019s hard not to imagine asteroids slamming into Earth. But for much of HEMI\u2019s work\u2014theoretical, computational, and basic\u2014few images exist to show how materials change at…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-at-wse","issue-summer-2015"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n