<div dir="ltr"><div><b>Congratulations to the 2014 NCSRR Visiting Scholars</b><br>The NCSRR will host its third <span>Visiting</span> <span>Scholars</span>
Program this summer. We selected two exceptional candidates from a
large and highly competitive pool of applicants based on their
outstanding scientific potential, strong computational skills, and past
contributions in modeling and simulation.<b> </b>The 2014 Scholars include James Buffi from Northwestern University and Jason Moore from Cleveland State University. <a href="http://www.stanford.edu/group/opensim/support/scholars.html#2014Scholars" target="_blank">Read more about the <span>scholars</span> and their projects here</a>.<br>
<br>We also selected several excellent applicants for Outstanding
Researcher Awards. This award recognizes their strong applications and
will fund a visit to an OpenSim workshop, for them and their
collaborators. Outstanding Researcher Award Winners include Wouter Aerts
and Hossein Mokhtarzadeh. You can see the list of Outstanding Researcher
Award Winners, along with several additional workshop travel award
winners on the <a href="http://www.stanford.edu/group/opensim/support/scholars.html#2014Scholars" target="_blank">Visiting Scholars website</a>.<br>
<b><br></b><div><b>Tune in to the Next OpenSim Webinar </b><br></div><div>Simulating Quadriceps Muscle Atrophy and Activation Deficits during Gait<br>Dr. Julie Thompson, Stanford University
and Ohio State University<br>Thursday, May 22, 2014 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time<br><a href="http://www.stanford.edu/group/opensim/support/event_details.html?id=101" target="_blank">Read more and register</a><br><br>
</div><div><b>Scholar in Belgium Makes an Impact with OpenSim</b><br></div>Wouter
Aerts, a student working with Ilse Jonkers at KU Leuven and winner of
an NCSRR Outstanding Researcher Award, received a personal PhD grant to
simulate transtibial amputee gait within Opensim. Wouter will work on
including a contact model between the stump and prosthesis and use these
forces during the simulation in order to assist in prosthetic fitting
and tuning of transtibial amputees. You can check out his <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If3nWXQ9ybc&list=PL6A56A5846D1FC8EB" target="_blank">video</a> in the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6A56A5846D1FC8EB" target="_blank">OpenSim Gallery of Examples</a>.<br>
<br></div><i>Let us know if you have cool videos or results to share and we will add your work to the Gallery of Examples. As always, we also welcome your feedback to the project and ask for your help answering questions on our <a href="https://simtk.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=91">user forum</a> and growing the set of models and simulations available on <a href="http://Simtk.org">Simtk.org</a>.</i><br clear="all">
<div><div><br>-- <br><span><b><font color="#333333">Jennifer Hicks, Ph.D.</font></b></span><div><font color="#333333">Associate Director | <a href="http://www.stanford.edu/group/opensim/about/index.html" target="_blank">NCSRR</a><br>
R&D Manager | <a href="http://opensim.stanford.edu/" target="_blank">OpenSim</a> </font></div><div><font color="#333333">Stanford University<br><a value="+16504984403">650-498-4403</a> | <a href="mailto:jenhicks@stanford.edu" target="_blank">jenhicks@stanford.edu</a></font></div>
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