A big thanks to Keith Brown Keith A Brown for finally convincing me to join twitter. And a much bigger thanks to him for giving the outstanding and inspiring seminar on “Tough Materials by Design from Self-Driving Labs” at UM today.

Register for tomorrow's U-M CEE Building the Future Lecture, “Urban Engineering: New Strategies for a Resilient and Sustainable Future,” featuring Northeastern University’s Jerome Hajjar, Northeastern Civil and Environmental Engineering, from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. ET. Get link: umich.zoom.us/webinar/regist… #Adaptation

Congratulations to Dr. Maria Redoutey for successfully defending her dissertation today!

We had excellent presentations and a great turnout at the 2023 EMI Origami/Kirigami mini-symposium. A big thanks to those that attended the sessions and our origami/kirigami dinner!

A big Congratulations to our Ph.D. Student Anan Ghrayeb for winning FIRST PLACE in the University of Michigan 2023 Engineering Graduate Symposium - 3 Minute Thesis competition. Great work Anan!!!

Extreme Mechanics Letters is pleased to announce the Recipients of the 2023 EML Young Investigator Award: Evgueni T. Filipov, Associate Professor, University of Michigan, USA Evgueni T Filipov Mingchao Liu, Assistant Professor, University of Birmingham, UK Mingchao Liu

I am truly honored to have been selected for the 2023 EML Young Investigator Award. I would also like to acknowledge Dr. Zhongyuan Wo, the first author of the selected paper, who conducted the work as part of his Ph.D.

People weave baskets for asthetic and geometric values, but any mechanical advantages? In our new study published in Physical Review Research, we revealed that woven baskets provide comparable stiffness yet far superior resilience to continuous systems: doi.org/10.1103/9srl-9…