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You may call him Dr. Ben!
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 assistance.” Ben is also the first PhD grad co-advised with…
It’s Trejo, DOCTOR Trejo.
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 physiology to reduce metabolic cost of walking”. We’re so proud…
Greg appointed as Joseph Anderer Faculty Fellow!
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 until 2028 to help grow the lab’s research. Read More
Greg earns this year’s ASB Founders’ Award!
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 and excellence in mentoring”. Check out the link below to…
A walk down the (commencement) aisle for new and soon-to-be PoWeR PhDs!
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 a blast celebrating with a weekend of festivities!
Now presenting Dr. Schroeder!!
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 neuromechanics and energetics”. Up next, Jordyn is heading to McKinsey.
New paper – The muscle work loop paradigm
We’re excited to share our new paper “Perturbing the muscle work loop paradigm to unravel the neuromechanics of unsteady locomotion”, out now in the Journal of Experimental Biology with Dr. Simon Sponberg and Dr. Emily Abbott! In this, we review…
Jenny featured in JEB’s ECR Spotlight series
Jenny was interviewed for the Journal of Experimental Biology’s Early Career Researcher Spotlight series! Check out the interview here. This is associated with her new work on linking whole-body angular momentum and step placement during perturbed human walking in JEB.
New JEB paper on perturbations, balance, and recovery strategies
Our new paper Linking whole-body angular momentum and step placement during perturbed human walking is out now in the Journal of Experimental Biology! The paper is also accompanied by an open-source data set with 3000+ perturbations! This currently includes markers…
Amro wins NSF GRFP!
Huge congratulations to Amro Alshareef on being awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! Amro is a second year PhD Student in the Robotics program. Congrats and much deserved!