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Seattle News Coverage – Quite the buzz!

Keshia Media, News

Our lab’s collaboration with miss Jayna and her family has made quite the buzz within our local news stations! We are very fortunate to work with Jayna and others who are co-designers and partners in the design process, who are dedicated to helping us create devices for not only themselves, but others that will benefit as well.

Jayna Doll is featured on three local news stations as a great drummer and design partner for upper-limb orthoses.

KING5, KOMO, and KIRO news all ran interviews with Jayna, Kat, and Bradley last night. Here are the links, in case you haven’t seen them!

KING5: http://www.king5.com/news/local/3d-printed-device-helps-girl-fulfill-drumming-dream/346454002

King5 also shared a video on their facebook page.

KOMO: http://komonews.com/news/local/uw-students-help-girl-with-rare-brain-condition-fulfill-dream-to-become-drummer

KIRO: http://www.kiro7.com/video?videoId=463374139&videoVersion=1.0

 

Darrin Howell Joins the Lab!

Keshia Media, News

We are very excited to welcome Darrin Howell to our research team. Darrin earned is BS in Neuroscience here at the University of Washington and is now a research scientist within our lab. In addition to the exciting news of our new staff member, Darrin’s first day involved helping install the new AMPLab treadmill. A majority of our lab’s data collections will occur in this new shared space with Electrical Engineering and Rehabilitation Medicine. Welcome, Darrin!

Darrin stands on the left belt of the new treadmill within the AMPLab's space, while Dave the Bertec Technician tests the isntallation. Dave from Bertec, Darrin our new research scientist, and Keshia our lab manager and research scientist look in the sub-floor space where the new split-belt treadmill will be installed.

 

Jessica Zistatsis awarded Mechanical Engineering Fellowship

Keshia Awards, News, Orthoses, Projects

jessicazCongratulations to Jessica for being acknowledged by the Department of Mechanical Engineering for her academic achievements and potential for success within her masters studies.

Jessica is dedicated to creating a pediatric exoskeleton which promotes improved walking patterns during daily life, outside of therapy sessions. This fellowship will allow Jessica to devote more time towards her research and studies. Congrats!

 

“Can thoughts be harnessed to move robotic limbs?” – Lab featured in Seattle Times NW

Keshia Media, News, Outreach

jaynaThis past Friday, the University unleashed its most ambitious philanthropic campaign, UW Together. The Ability & Innovation Lab was honored to have a team of undergraduate’s work featured, an elbow-driven orthosis for Jayna.

This story is now featured in the Seattle Times NW Showcase section, and Kat, our Director, is featured in an ad to the right of the story. To read and watch the video, CLICK HERE. We are proud to partner with the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (CSNE) here in the College of Engineering. Innovation occurs at the intersection of multiple disciplines, and Together we can change the world.

Go Dawgs and Go Biomechanics!