Kayla Pariser and Kaleb Burch both attended the doctoral hooding ceremony to celebrate the completion of their PhDs! Kayla and Kaleb started pursuing their degrees in the same year and both are now closing out the final chapter in their…
Kayla Pariser and Kaleb Burch both attended the doctoral hooding ceremony to celebrate the completion of their PhDs! Kayla and Kaleb started pursuing their degrees in the same year and both are now closing out the final chapter in their…
On April 13th, Kayla Pariser successfully defended her PhD dissertation! Kayla’s work involved both experimental and computational studies on how individuals respond to an adaptive treadmill that modulated speed according to pushoff force and step length. In this project, Kayla…
Kelsey Neal successfully defended her PhD Dissertation on Monday! In her dissertation work, Kelsey utilized motion capture, EMG-driven musculoskeletal models, finite element modeling, and MRI to evaluate how ACL tears effect stresses in knee cartilage and then related this effect…
PhD Candidate Kaleb Burch recently had his first paper titled “Estimating ground reaction force with novel carbon nanotube-based textile insole pressure sensors” published in Wearable Technologies. This paper was the culmination of a collaborative study with Sagar Doshi, Amit Chaudhari,…
Kayla Pariser, Margo Donlin, Becca Davis, and Kaleb Burch of the Neuromuscular Biomechanics Lab attended the 2022 North American Congress on Biomechanics, hosted by the American and Canadian Societies of Biomechanics. At the conference, Kayla and Kaleb both presented on…
Next week, PhD student Kaleb Burch will be attending the 2022 Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering, and Biotransport Conference (SB3C)! He will be delivering an oral presentation titled “Design and Mechanical Testing of a Shoulder-Assistive Exosuit” in the Rehab and Assistive Technologies…
Luke Nigro successfully defended his PhD Dissertation yesterday! In his dissertation work, Luke developed novel bi-linear stiffness ankle-foot orthoses (BL-AFOs) and tested their effect on human gait. Luke will next be conducting research as a post-doc with Dr. Alena Grabowski…
Kaitlyn Downer, a senior undergraduate student in the lab, has been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship! This prestigious fellowship will fund Kaitlyn’s research work for three years as she begins her graduate studies next fall. Congratulations Kaitlyn!
Undergraduate researcher Hanna Armstrong was featured in UDaily! The article is part of a series on undergraduate research happening actively on UD’s campus. Hanna shares about the content and impact of her research project on shoe insole force sensors, her…
On August 10-13, 2021, the Neuromuscular Biomechanics Lab enjoyed participating in the virtual American Society of Biomechanics 2021 conference! Lab members Luke Nigro, Kelsey Neal, Kayla Pariser, Kaleb Burch, Margo Donlin, and Kaitlyn Downer all presented at this conference. Check…