Author: Ben Wheatley

The MMOT lab softball team – The Basement Dwellers – tasted sweet victory by downing the Bucknell coaches team in the 2022 summer intramural softball league championships. It was an especially rewarding team victory after suffering heartbreak in 2021. Congrats Dwellers! We’re on a Highway to Dwell!!

The MMOT Lab recently published a collaborative paper with Dr. Mark Seeley (Geisinger Orthopaedics) and Nathan Chaclas (Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine) that used computer modeling to study the effect of femoral torsion on knee joint loads. The paper is entitled “Patellofemoral Joint Load and Knee Abduction/Adduction Moment are Sensitive to Variations in Femoral Version…

The MMOT Lab traveled to Maryland in late June to present our research at SB3C (sb3c.org). Minhaj, Sabrina, and Olivia each had posters highlighting their work from summer 2021. Our travel was highlighted in the College of Engineering’s social media, such as on twitter – check it out here!

In collaboration with Prof. Pierre-Yves Rohan’s group (Arts et Metiers Institute of Technology, Paris), we recently published a finite element-based investigation of compressive muscle mechanics that supports the theory of fluid pressurization as a major contributor to compressive muscle stiffness. This work utilizes data collected by Anurag Vaidya ’21 and is a “bridge” to ongoing…

As the summer comes to a close, the MMOT lab is celebrating a great couple of months on campus, in Lewisburg, and most importantly in the lab! While most projects will continue into the academic year, three MMOTers recently submitted to the 2021 Biomedical Engineering Society summer undergraduate research track. Sabrina submitted her work entitled…

We are sad to see our seniors leave the lab and Bucknell, but they are off to experience a new chapter! Anurag and Ruthie will be headed to graduate school, Keith will be a medical scribe with plans for med school, and Emily is headed to industry. Best of luck to the MMOT class of…