Congratulations to Jiaxi Zhang! He successfully defended his thesis entitled, “Developing A Crack Propagation Model in the Metallic Materials from A Self-Consistent Coupled Atomistic-Continuum Model” on Friday, June 9th, 2017. Members of his thesis committee included, Prof. Somnath Ghosh, his thesis advisor, Prof. Benjamin Schafer, Prof. Lori Graham-Brady, Prof. Jaafar El-Awady and Prof. Mark Robbins.