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+image: /static/uploads/earth_welcome.png
+imageAlt: earth with sunrise, captioned "welcome"
+title: SMASH welcomes new members!
+authors:
+  - Matthew Tralka
+date: 2022-06-01T16:54:48.679Z
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+SMASH is estatic to welcome our new members! Joining us are two new PhD students, Victor Irekponor and Ushashi Podder, and an undergraduate member, Janna Chapman.
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