NEWS
September 2019 Publication Update
Three papers have been recently published by our lab. Postdoc Emily Abbott, Postdoc Owen Beck, and former Postdoc and now Lecturer at University of Queensland Taylor Dick are first authors of the following articles currently In Press: Dick TJM, Punith…
PhD Student Jordyn Schroeder Awarded a Sloan Fellowship!
Congratulations to 3rd-year PoWeR Lab PhD student Jordyn Schroeder for winning a fellowship through the Sloan Minority Ph.D. Program (MPHD)! This award will fund her travel and professional development throughout her PhD program.
Dr. Owen Beck Awarded an NIH F32 Postdoctoral Fellowship!
Congratulations to Dr. Owen Beck, a post-doctoral fellow in the PoWeR Lab, for being awarded an F32 (postdoctoral fellowship) from the National Institutes of Health! This award will fund Owen for 2 years while he performs his funded research project:…
Dr. Greg Sawicki Featured on Closer Look with Rose Scott
Dr. Sawicki spoke with Rose Scott from Atlanta Public Radio about the PoWeR Lab’s research, the joint PoWeR and EPIC lab space, and the future of wearable robotics. Check it out here!
Petit Institute Seed Grant
Congratulations to Dr. Greg Sawicki and Dr. Tim Cope for being awarded one of three 2019 Petit Institute Seed Grants! Their proposal, entitled “Modifying musculotendon neuromechanics to improve proprioception in aging,” aims to understand how changes with age in muscle…
Georgia Tech Robotics Summer Scholars
Last week we had high school students from all over Atlanta participate in the first annual Georgia Tech Robotics Summer Scholars program. EPIC, PoWeR, and DART lab undergraduate and graduate students all served as instructors and helped the scholars design,…
4 Project ENGAGES Students Join PoWeR Lab
We are pleased to welcome 4 students from Atlanta high schools into the PoWeR Lab as part of a year-long research program (Project ENGAGES). Esmeralda Vazquez, Wendy Nevarez-Sanchez, Jeremiah Newman, and Zachary White will be mentored by Pawel Golyski, Ben…
CAREN is Up and Running
The newest piece of equipment for the PoWeR and EPIC labs is officially ready for use! The Computer Assisted Rehabilitation Environment (CAREN) is a virtual reality environment complete with a 6 degree of freedom platform, split belt instrumented treadmill, 180…
PoWeR Lab NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
The PoWeR Lab had a great outcome from the NSF GRFP this cycle – second-year Mechanical Engineering PhD student Jordyn Schroeder received an Honorable Mention, and second-year BioEngineering PhD student Pawel Golyski received a Fellowship! Congratulations to both!
PoWeR @ Atlanta Science Festival
The PoWeR Lab was out in force for the 2019 Atlanta Science Festival. It was great to have over 100 families over to our research space from all over Atlanta and talk about exoskeletons, prostheses, motion capture, ultrasound, and biomechanics!…