Tom Hughes, aerospace engineering professor, received the Grand Prize from the Japan Society for Computational Engineering and Science. This is the highest award given by the society, an organization that promotes advances of education and technology in computational engineering. Hughes, who holds the Computational and Applied Mathematics Chair, is the first recipient of this award.
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