The event was held on Tuesday May 29th 2018 during the Annual Meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The symposium focused on “Innovative techniques towards a new approach to sports and exercise” and featured internationally distinguished researchers in the field of Motor Control and Biomechanics (see flyer for details), including:

• Dr. Darryl Thelen
  University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
  “A noninvasive sensor of tendon loading during dynamic movement”
• Dr. João Paulo Vilas-Boas
  University of Porto, Portugal
  “Assessing and understanding forces in swimming””
• Dr. Ezio Preatoni
  University of Bath, UK
  “Movement, coordination and their variability in sports skills monitoring: where we are and what is missing””
• Dr. Ross Miller
  University of Maryland, USA
  “Predictive models are most useful when they are wrong””
• Dr. Angus Hunter
  University of Stirling, UK
  “Neuromuscular control in clinical and athletic populations: science of past, present and future””
• Dr. Jasper Reenalda
  Roessingh Research and Development, University of Twente, The Netherlands
  “A novel approach to investigate differences in knee mechanics after ACL reconstruction using inertial sensors””
• Mr. Oladipo Eddo
  George Mason University, USA
  “Effects of gait modification on lower extremity sagittal plane biomechanics””

Winners of the NSF-Sponsored Travel Awards at the 7th Symposium on Motor Control in Biomechanics

We would like to thank the National Science Foundation (NSF) for their financial assistance in supporting the symposium, and for sponsoring NSF-funded travel awards in the amount of $500 USD for ten US-based undergraduate and graduate students to participate in the symposium. Congratulations to the winners!

• Oladipo Eddo
  George Mason University
• Crystal Hajek
  John Carroll University
• Caleb Johnson
  University of Pittsburgh
• Joshua Keller
  University of Nebraska – Lincoln
• Diba Mani
  University of Colorado
• April McPherson
  Mayo Clinic
• Kristen Neitz
  Georgia Southern University
• Heather Riley
  Point Loma Nazarene University
• Sydni Wilhoite
  Georgia Southern University

Many thanks to the De Luca Foundation for their support, and to all of the speakers and attendees for making the 7th Symposium of Motor Control in Biomechanics a success.

We look forward to seeing you at WCB 2018!