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The Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce and YP Nashville present the Nashville Emerging Leader Awards (NELAs) each year to recognize Nashville’s young professionals for significant accomplishments in their chosen career fields, as well as their commitment and contribution to the community. This year Prof. Zelik was the award winner in… Read More

This year National Biomechanics Day (NBD) was comprised of more than 150 events, and reached over 11,000 students around the world! It was amazing! Students (mostly high school students) visited local universities and other companies/organizations to learn about and experience demonstrations related to the science of biomechanics. The American Society… Read More

The Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce & YP (Young Professionals) Nashville present the Nashville Emerging Leader Awards (NELAs) each year to recognize Nashville’s young professionals for significant accomplishments in their chosen career fields, as well as their commitment and contribution to the community. Prof. Zelik was named one of 5 finalists… Read More

The May 2018 edition of the O&P (Orthotics & Prosthetics) Almanac contains a nice feature story about Prof. Zelik and the exciting research going on in CREATE. Thanks to all the mentors, collaborators and students (past and present) who have contributed this work!!… Read More

Over the last few months, 2nd year PhD student Emily Matijevich: published her first first-author publication in the Journal of Biomechanics submitted a provisional patent application as co-inventor of a new wearable sensor technology for monitoring bone loading in runners & other at-risk groups, in order to help… Read More

https://engineering.vanderbilt.edu/news/2018/class-of-2018-profile-josh-fleck-me-major-empowers-people-with-disabilities/… Read More

First, congrats to Lauren Branscombe, Josh Fleck & Josh Tacca! All seniors in Mechanical Engineering, who have contributed a tremendous amount to our research lab. Each of these individuals is a co-author on a manuscript (either published or in review). Of note, Lauren is completing both her BS & MS degree this… Read More

Congrats to Matt, Erik & Dean, who pitched mechanized clothing (aka smart underwear) and won the Fan Favorite award in the Innovation Challenge at the Wearable Robotics Association Conference (WearRAcon) in Phoenix, AZ.  … Read More

Quite the perplexing finding!! https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002192901830191X   . Abstract The purpose of this study was to investigate Achilles tendon (AT) length changes during a series of tasks that involved combinations of higher/lower force, and larger/smaller length changes of the medial gastrocnemius muscle-tendon unit (MTU). We sought… Read More