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.
• Congratulations to Gordon Robertson on his re-election as Communications Officer for the Canadian Society for Biomechanics.
• 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.
• Congratulations. Dr. Gordon Robertson on being named a Fellow of the Canadian Society for Biomechanics.
• Congratulations to Mr. Etienne Bisson for the successful completion of his M.A. thesis in Human Kinetics.
• Congratulations to Ms. Marianne Thornton for the successful completion of her M.A. thesis in Human Kinetics.
• Congratulations to Mr. François D.Beaulieu for the successful completion of his M.A. thesis in Human Kinetics.
• Congratulations to Mr. Kerry Rambarran for the successful completion of his M.A. thesis in Human Kinetics.
• Congratulations to Mr. Stefan Potoczny for the successful completion of his M.A. thesis in Human Kinetics.
• Congratulations to Ms. Taunya St. Pierre for the successful completion of her M.Sc. thesis in Biology.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Congratulations to Stefan Potoczny on receiving a Ontario Graduate Scholarship.
• Congratulations to Alison Cronin on receiving a Travel Grant from the APTPUO to present her research at the next ISB conference in Zurich.
• Congratulations to Nicoleta Marhao Bugnariu on receiving an NSERC PGS-B (doctoral) scholarship to continue her studies with Dr. Heidi Sveistrup.
• 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.
• 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.
• Dr. Edward Lemaire has become a member of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies.
• Dr. Heidi Sveistrup has obtained a 4-year Operating Grant from NSERC.
• 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.
• 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.
• Welcome to Dr. Edward Lemaire and Mr. John Barnes. Both have been appointed Adjunct Professors to the School.
• 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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