Innovating Cutting-Edge Robotics through Collaboration

Banu Abdikadirova, a PhD candidate in mechanical and industrial engineering in the Riccio College of Engineering and member of the Human Robot Systems Laboratory, has been named a Groundbreaking Graduate Student at UMass Amherst! This award honors master’s and doctoral students whose outstanding research, scholarship and creative activity are making a real-world impact.

Dr. Meghan Huber and Dr. Donghyun Kim, along with colleagues Dr. Wouter Hoogkamer in Kinesiology and Dr. Nathan Wycoff in Mathematics and Statistics, received $490,000 from the U.S. National Science Foundation to define the primary mathematical components of human running.

A UMass Amherst research team led by faculty from the Elaine Marieb Center for Nursing and Engineering Innovation has been awarded nearly $3 million to establish the nation’s first graduate training program designed to combine nursing’s hands-on patient care with engineering’s technical knowledge.