NEWS
Balance perturbation study makes JEB’s Shortlist for Outstanding Paper Prize
Jenny Leestma’s study investigating how people recover balance after stumbling is highlighted in the Journal of Experimental Biology Outstanding Paper prize shortlist. Congrats, team!
Jenny wins big in CRIDC poster competition!
Congrats to Jenny Leestma for winning an award of $2000 in the Career, Research, and Innovation Development Conference! Jenny plans to use the Executive VP for Research Award to fund her travels to the International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and…
Congrats to Qingyi Lou, MS!
Congrats to Qingyi on completing her M.S. in Bioengineering and successfully defending her masters’ thesis. We’re so proud of you, Qy!
Greg talks shop with Humotech
Check out Greg’s guest appearance on Humotech’s podcast, “The Human Part of Humotech.” In this interview, Greg shares his research journey from studying biology to building robots, and how he connects the two to unlock insights that are advancing the…
Candidate Alert! Melody passes her proposal
Congratulations to Melody Modarressi for passing her qualifying exams/proposal as part of the Biology PhD program and officially becoming a PhD candidate.
Jenny awarded Woodruff Fellowship for Mentoring
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. We’re so proud of you, Jenny!
UMich-Bound! Dr. Laksh Punith accepts a Robotics Postdoc with the Neurobionics 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 all the best as he dives into this new chapter…
Autumn accepted to NextProf Pathfinder workshop at UMich
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 the next generation of academic leaders in engineering. Autumn was…
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”. Up next, Lindsey…