The Whiting School of Engineering and the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences held their annual Doctoral Hooding Ceremony on May 23rd, 2017. Ahmad Shabha and Zhiye Li who completed their doctoral degree in 2018-19 were hooded by Prof. Somnath Ghosh. Zhiye Li completed her thesis titled “Micromechanical Studies of Glass Fiber Reinforced Epoxy Matrix Composites Undergoing Deformation and Damage at High Strain Rates” and Ahmad Shahba completed his PhD dissertation titled “Crystal Plasticity Finite Element Simulation of Deformation and Fracture in Polycrystalline Microstructures“. CMRL congratulates and wishes them the best of luck!