We are honored to have a 2018 Husky 100 member in our lab! The Husky 100 recognizes 100 UW undergraduate and graduate students from Bothell, Seattle, and Tacoma in all areas of study who are making the most of their time at the UW. Read an excerpt of Karley’s application packet below to learn more about her involvement with HuskyADAPT, her research with orthotic design, outreach, and her studies. Congratulations, Karley!
Awards
Congratulations! Ben Shuman is selected for a Science Foundation Ireland Student Travel Award
Ben will be presenting two oral presentations at the meeting of the International Society of Electrophysiology and Kinesiology (ISEK) in Dublin this summer. He was one of 13 young scientists selected by the ISEK Scientific Review committee and will be presented with a check during the awards ceremony. Congratulations, Ben!
Congratulations Keshia! Nominee for UW Distinguished Staff Awards
Today we all headed over to the HUB to celebrate one of our awesome research scientists, Keshia Peters.
Keshia was nominated for the University of Washington Distinguished Staff Award – the staff award for the whole university!
While we got to enjoy cupcakes, lemonade, and practice our silent standing wave this celebration honored all nominees. We have to wait a few weeks for the final awardees to be announced. Good luck Keshia and thanks for all you do for the lab!
Dr. Heather Feldner named KL2 Scholar, 2018 Cohort
We are very proud to announce that Dr. Heather Feldner has been named a KL2 Scholar. Heather is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Ability & Innovation Lab, and has received support through 2021 to pursue one of her missions of improving mobility interventions for young children with movement challenges.
Project Title: Improving translational capacity in early powered mobility intervention: Investigating the socio-emotional impacts of modified ride-on car use by children with disabilities and their families
To learn more, click this link.
Heather Feldner receives Harlan Hahn Award
Harlan Hahn was a well known disability rights activist and scholar, after he passed away the University of Washington received an endowment fund to support the integration of disability studies into research and education.
Heather Feldner was awarded $4000 to pursue the following project, as summarized below:
The Harlan Hahn Endowment Fund will support the creation and delivery of a multidisciplinary technology design course curriculum that infuses disability studies content and encourages student activism within the science and engineering communities of UW and the disability communities of Seattle. Students will gain exposure to seminal disability studies scholarship about the social and complex embodiment models of disability, the history of disability discrimination and the Disability Rights Movement, and explore how disability studies can inform issues of accessibility and inclusive design that have been historically conceptualized within a medical model of disability. Each student will participate in a technology co-design project with a disabled community member serving as a consultant and project lead. Funding will also support the assessment of student attitudes and knowledge of disability studies principles prior to and after completing the course, as well as support dissemination of the course model and outcomes at a national engineering conference in 2018.