Congratulations to Melody Modarressi for passing her qualifying exams/proposal as part of the Biology PhD program and officially becoming a PhD candidate.
Massive congrats to Jenny Leestma for receiving a Woodruff School fellowship in recognition of her dedication to mentoring. Jenny has been mentoring since her first year with the PoWeR Lab.…
Our very own Dr. Laksh Kumar Punith is headed to Michigan to work as a postdoc with Dr. Elliott Rouse and the Neurobionics Lab. We'll miss him and wish him…
Huge congratulations to Autumn Routt on her acceptance to the NextProf Pathfinder program at the University of Michigan. This intensive workshop is part of a nationwide effort to strengthen and diversify…
Congratulations to Ben Shafer on successfully defending his PhD and earning his PhD in Robotics! Ben's dissertation is titled "How to improve self-selected walking speed is older adults using exoskeleton…
Huge congratulations to Dr. Lindsey Trejo, who just defended her dissertation and earned her PhD in Bioengineering! Lindsey’s dissertation is titled “Interaction of ankle exoskeleton assistance with age-related changes in…
Huge congratulations to Dr. Greg Sawicki on being appointed the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering's Joseph Anderer Faculty Fellow! This appointment provides $12,000 in discretionary funds per year…
Huge congratulations to Greg on being named the 2023 American Society of Biomechanics Founders' Award winner! This award goes to one scientist each year to recognize “scientific accomplishment in biomechanics…
Congratulations to Drs. Jordyn Schroeder, Pawel Golyski, Jonathan Gosyne, and Laksh Kumar Punith and soon-to-be PhDs Lindsey Trejo and Ben Shafer who celebrated graduation at commencement this weekend! We had…
Huge congratulations to Dr. Jordyn Schroeder on successfully defending her dissertation and earning her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering. Jordyn's dissertation is titled "Long-term effects of altered foot-ankle mechanics on locomotion…
