Work Related Activities

 

		Janet Kemp, Professor Emeritus Al Schultz, Professor James Ashton-Miller and Kurt DeGoede at retirement party 2000.

 

BRL faculty, staff and students wish Visiting Professor, Dr. Hirooyasu Okuizumi farewell, 2002

 

World Congress Biomechanics 2002, Calgary, Canada.

 

	[Cecile Smeesters receiving a compliment at WCB 2002.]		[Kuo-cheng Lien displaying his poster on pelvic floor muscles at WCB 2002.]
	[Kurt DeGoede discussing falls with Clive Pai at WCB 2002.]		[Sibylle Thies giving her oral presentation on step variability in polyneuropathy patients, WCB 2002.]

Alaa presenting her poster at the WCB 2002 with interested conference participant.

 

Jan, Beth and Adriana celebrate the 200th subject tested in
Project 2: Professor Emeritus Leland Quackenbush.

 

 

AWARDS

University of Michigan Graduate Student Poster Competition 2003

[Congratulations to Alaa and Brian for winning "Best Content" and "Best Presentation" awards, respectively, for the posters they presented last week at U-M's 2003 college-wide Graduate Student Poster Competition organized by SWE (Society of Women Engineers).

 

 

 

American Urogynecological Society (AUGS) Meeting
September 11-13, 2003

James, Kuo-Cheng and John at the AUGS meeting in Hollywood, Florida. Kuo-Cheng gave an outstanding oral presentation. Kuo-Cheng also won the AUGS Prize Paper Award for his paper, "Pelvic Floor Soft Tissue Stretch in Vaginal Birth" with co-authors Brian Mooney, John DeLancey and James Ashton-Miller. The paper will appear in the Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, October 2003.

 

 

Annual Meeting 2003
American Society of Biomechanics

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alaa accepts ASB Clinical Biomechanics Award from 2002 ASB President, Andrew Biewener
on her astounding presentation, "Effect of Age on Detecting a Loss of Balance in a Seated Whole-Body Balancing Task". Her paper will appear in Gait and Posture.

 

 

 

Outside Work Activities

Professor James Ashton-Miller's Party

[Mari Endo and others tell tales at James' house, 2002.]

 

Students Outside Activities and Interests

	Warming up for the rumba: Alexey Batrachenko and Sibylle Thies of the University of Michigan Ballroom Dance Team. The University of Michigan Ballroom Dance Team took first place at the 2001 and 2002 National Collegiate Dancesport Championships in Columbus Ohio. For more information on this team please see www.umich.edu/~umbdc/team

Wedding photo of Bing-Shiang and his wife Ming-I, December, 2002 in Taiwan.		Bing-Shiang in action. This is Bing-Shiang's favorite sport, Taekwondo. He has been practicing for about 15 years and is currently an international 3rd Dan.

Alaa's boy, Sooma, enjoying his first sandwich
(mom's sandwich).

Sooma is ready for action!

Brian and his wife, Rebecca,
May 13, 2000.

One of Brian and Rebecca's family members, Morgan, with his prothetic leg.