We are proud to announce that Alyssa Spomer has been selected to receive a 2019 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Fellowship. This is a very competitive fellowship, and it will fund Alyssa’s PhD for the next three years. We look forward to seeing her upcoming work and growth as a researcher. Congratulations, Alyssa!
Awards
Congratulations – Makoto Eyre is awarded a UWIN WRF Innovation Undergraduate Fellowship in Neuroengineering
Makoto Eyre has been selected as a WRF Innovation Undergraduate Fellow in Neuroengineering for the UW Institute for Neuroengineering. The UWIN fellowship provides funding and is a highly prestigious and selective competition. Congratulations, Makoto!
Makoto’s research seeks to use muscle synergies, a clinically-useful, low-dimensional representation of motor coordination, to quantify and compare the effects of AFOs on motor control strategies employed during SS and nSS gait. Ankle foot orthoses (AFOs) are a common intervention for cerebral palsy and stroke survivors, with most research on the impacts of AFOs on impaired locomotion and motor control focuses on steady state (SS) gait despite a large portion of locomotion being non-steady state (nSS). As nSS locomotion may rely on different neuromuscular control strategies, AFOs optimized for SS may be suboptimal to nSS locomotion.
Brianna Goodwin selected as a 2019 SB3C Student Paper Competition finalist
Brianna Goodwin was selected as a finalist in the MS-level Student Paper Competition at the Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering and Biotransport Conference (SB3C) this summer. She was one of 27 finalists selected for this competition. Congratulations and good luck to Brianna!
Ben Shuman Named Best Student Oral Presentation at ISEK in Dublin.
Congratulations to Ben Shuman for being named Best Student Oral Presentation at the International Society of Electromyography and Kinesiology conference in Dublin, Ireland.
This is an incredibly large honor at an international conference with hundreds of presenters. Well done, Ben!
Brianna Goodwin and Ben Shuman each selected as travel award winners
Congratulations to Brianna and Ben on being selected as two of the 23 awarded out of 272 applicants.
The De Luca Foundation informed Brianna that she had been selected as a winner of a 2018 Student Travel Award for funding to travel to the American Society of Biomechanics this summer. Her research focuses on “Wearable Technology to Monitor Hand Movement During Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy”.
Likewise, the foundation named Ben 1 of 8 student recipients of the travel award that will help fund his travels to Dublin for the World Congress of Biomechanics. His winning research topic was that “Pre-treatment synergy activations are associated with post-treatment gait in cerebral palsy”.