Biomechanics Lab / Lab. de
Biomécanique
School of Human Kinetics / École
des
sciences de l'activité physique
Faculty of Health Sciences /
Faculté
des sciences de la santé
University of Ottawa / Université
d'Ottawa
Last updated /
Dernières mises
à jour: 23 April 2007
Announcements / Nouvelles
- Welcome
to Daniel Benoit and Nicoleta Bugnariu who have just joined the School of Rehabilitation Sciences.
- Welcome
to Blaine Hoshizaki, Jing Xian Li and Ramesh
Balasubramaniam
who have just joined the School of Human Kinetics. Blaine will
be the
new Director of the School.
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Congratulations
to Gordon Robertson on his re-election as Communications
Officer
for the Canadian Society for Biomechanics.
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Congratulations
to Mario Lamontagne and the other members if the organizing
committee
of the International Society of Biomechanics in Sports on the
successful
conference help at the University of Ottawa.
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Congratulations.
Dr. Gordon Robertson on being named
a Fellow of the Canadian Society for Biomechanics.
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Congratulations to Mr. Etienne Bisson for
the successful
completion of his M.A. thesis in Human Kinetics.
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Congratulations to Ms. Marianne Thornton for
the successful
completion of her M.A. thesis in Human Kinetics.
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Congratulations to Mr. François
D.Beaulieu for
the successful completion of his M.A. thesis in Human Kinetics.
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Congratulations to Mr. Kerry Rambarran for
the successful
completion of his M.A. thesis in Human Kinetics.
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Congratulations to Mr. Stefan Potoczny for
the successful
completion of his M.A. thesis in Human Kinetics.
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Congratulations to Ms. Taunya St. Pierre
for the successful
completion of her M.Sc. thesis in Biology.
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Congratulations to Mr. Mouafac Al Hadi, Mr.
Stefan Potozny
and Ms. Taunya St,Pierre on being accepted into the medical
program
of the University of Ottawa.
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Five papers from U. Ottawa were presented at the
high successful
conference of the World Congress of Biomechanics in Calgary. To
view the abstracts click here.
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Congratulations to Ms. Alison Cronin (supervisor
Gordon
Robertson) on the successful defense of her thesis titled "Effect
of Ankle Supports on Resistance to Inversion Force and Range of Motion.”
Click
here for details and abstract.
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Congratulations to Stefan Potoczny on
receiving a
Ontario Graduate Scholarship.
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Congratulations to Alison Cronin on
receiving a Travel
Grant from the APTPUO to present her research at the next ISB
conference
in Zurich.
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Congratulations to Nicoleta Marhao Bugnariu
on receiving
an NSERC PGS-B
(doctoral) scholarship to continue her studies with
Dr.
Heidi Sveistrup.
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Congratulations to Dr. Heidi Sveistrup and
her colleagues
Dr.
Joan McComas and Dr. Al Mayhew who have been awarded the Paul
Martin Senior Endowment Fund Research Grant from the Ontario March
of Dimes for their project entitled: "Effectiveness of
virtual
reality as an adjunct to conventional physiotherapy in clients with
chronic
shoulder range of motion limitations".
-
Lynn Casimiro (supervisor Dr. Heidi
Sveistrup) sucessfully
defended her thesis titled "Feedforward postural adjustments
associated
with a goal-directed reach produced by infants in the sitting and
standing
positions".
For
details and abstract click here.
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Congratulations to Mr. Kevin Semeniuk on
receiving
the Young Investigator's Award (Masters) of the Canadian Society for
Biomechanics.
This award includes a prize of $300.
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Dr. Edward Lemaire has become a member of
the Faculty
of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies.
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Dr. Heidi Sveistrup has obtained a 4-year
Operating
Grant from NSERC.
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Congratulations to Mr. Kevin Semeniuk
(supervisor
Dr. Gordon Robertson) on the successful defence of his theses entitled,
"Comparison
of Mechanical Energy Expenditure and Mechanical Efficiency of
Normal
Walking at Various Velocities". Click
here for details and abstract.
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Congratulations to Mr. Peter Niedre (supervisor
Dr.
Gordon Robertson) on the successful defense of his thesis entitled, The
effects of exercise on post-exercise hypothermia. Click
here for details and abstract.
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Welcome to Dr. Edward Lemaire and Mr.
John Barnes.
Both have been appointed Adjunct Professors to the School.
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Congratulations to Ms. Jennifer McGregor
(supervisor
Dr. Heidi Sveistrup) on the successful defence of her thesis: "Feedforward
Postural Adjustments Associated with Unilateral Rapid Arm Motion in
Children
Aged 4 and 5 years and 10 and 11 years". Click
here for details and abstract.
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For comments and
suggestions
contact
Pour vos commentaires et
suggestions,
contactez
D. Gordon E. Robertson, Ph.D.,
Assistant Director (dger@uottawa.ca)
or Lise O'Reilly, Academic
Assistant
(lcosa@uottawa.ca)

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University of Ottawa (www.uottawa.ca),
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