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  • Collaborative Aponeurosis Paper Published in JMBBM

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    Great work and congrats to everyone, especially first author Keith, for the recent publication in the Journal of the Biomechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials. Check out the paper here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751616120304434 Here is the graphical abstract for the work:

  • We Believe Poster

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    Adapted from Sammy Kata’s diversity posters (see https://sammykatta.com/diversity for more!) we have a new lab poster. Take the pledge here: https://sammykatta.com/pledge Download the PDF: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

  • MMOT Headed to…Switzerland!

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    Dr. Wheatley will be headed to Switzerland in February to attend the 2020 CAMS-Knee OpenSim workshop. He will be presenting on the collaborative work with Dr. Seeley, focusing on his research from July 2019 while he was at the Stanford University Neuromuscular Biomechanics Lab ( https://nmbl.stanford.edu/ ). More information about the workshop/conference can be found…

  • Anurag’s Paper on Compressed Muscle Mechanics is Published!

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    Congratulations to Anurag, whose paper entitled “An experimental and computational investigation of the effects of volumetric boundary conditions on the compressive mechanics of passive skeletal muscle” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials. Here is a link to the paper. Here is a link to the pre-print…

  • Dr. Wheatley and Dr. Mineart Highlighted on ADMET Website

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    The MMOT planar biaxial materials testing system funded by Dr. Wheatley and Dr. Mineart’s NSF grant has been highlighted by ADMET (the manufacturer of the custom instrument) on their website. Here is a link to the article: https://www.admet.com/bucknell-university-planar-biaxial-testing-research/

  • Dr. Seeley and Dr. Wheatley Awarded BGRI Stage II Grant

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    Dr. Mark Seeley of Geisinger and Dr. Wheatley were awarded a Bucknell-Geisinger Research Initiative Stage II grant entitled “Characterization and Modeling of Miserable Malalignment Syndrome Lower Limb Biomechanics” to study anterior knee mechanics and lower limb rotational morphology. The grant will support further computational modeling, building off of the previously awarded Stage I grant, as…