Young Scientist Pre-Doctoral Award

Recognizing early achievements by promising young scientists.
Selection is based upon the scientific quality of the submitted material. The awardee must attend the annual ASB meeting to present their work in a special Awards session. The award consists of an engraved plaque, a check for $500, and a waiver of conference fees for the annual ASB meeting.

Eligibility

• Current or pending members of the ASB at the time of submission. A person is considered eligible for the pre-doctoral award if they have student status at the time of abstract submission, even if they complete their doctoral work before the annual meeting.

Nominations

• Candidates may be self-nominated or nominated by an ASB member.

Submission Material

• Letter of nomination from the department head or graduate research advisor (7 hard copies or Word document or PDF)

• Description of the nominee's current research (limit 2 pages, Word document or PDF).  Include a statement specifying the nominee's contribution to all work described and to all accompanying publications.

• Curriculum vitae (Word document or PDF)

• Published papers and/or submitted manuscripts (limit 5, all PDF)

• Abstract of original research submitted (via regular call for abstracts) to the ASB annual meeting with the nominee as first author.

Submission Instructions

• Applications should be submitted electronically to the ASB Past-President, Irene Davis (mcclay@udel.edu).
• The abstract must be submitted to the meeting by March 19, 2010, and the abstract and other award application materials must be submitted to Irene Davis by March 19, 2010.
• Note that Young Scientist Award applicants must submit their abstract to the ASB annual meeting.

Past Award Winners

Year	Awardee	Title
2009	Amy Silder	The influence of prior hamstring injury on musculotendon morphology & muscle contraction mechanics
2008	Meghan McGee	Post-Hibernation Black Bears (Ursus Americanus) do not Demonstrate Cortical Bone Loss Compared to Pre-Hibernation Bears Despite 6 Months of Disuse
2007	Eric Kennedy	Biofidelity Requirements for the Focus Headform for the Prediction of Eye Injuries
2006	Hannah J. Lundberg	Effects of Implant Design Parameters on Fluid Ingress During THA Impingement/Subluxation
2005	Katherine Holzbaur	Scaling Of Muscle Volumes In The Upper Extremity
2004	Silvia Salinas Blemker	Rectus Femoris Fiber Excursions Predicted By A 3D Model Of Muscle
2003	Glenn N. Williams	Muscle morphology after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction with autologous semitendinousus-gracilis graft
2002	J. Maxwell Donelan	Mechanical and Metabolic Requirements of Lateral Stabilization in Human Walking
2001	Constantinos N. Maganaris	Changes in In Vivo Aponeurotic Dimensions Upon Human Muscle Contraction
2000	Stephan Duma	The Effect of Shoulder Translation and Forearm Pronation on Upper Extremity Loading During Side Air Bag Deployment
1999	Frank Anderson	Static and Dynamic Optimization Solutions for Gait are Practically Equivalent
1998	Allison Arnold	Do the Hamstrings and Adductors Cause Excessive Internal Rotation of the Hip in Persons with Cerebral Palsy?
1997	Rosemary Speers	Response of Spaceflight on Postural Response to Altered Sensory Conditions
1996	Kenneth Chesnin	A Fourteen Segment Geometric-Based Multiple Linear Regression Model for Calculating Segment Masses
1995	Christoph Reinschmidt	Tibiofemoral and Calcaneus-Tibia Motion during Running: Skin vs. Bone Markers
1994	Jeffrey A. Duncan	Stair Climbing Gait to Evaluate Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
1993	Maury A. Nussbaum	A Competitive Neural Network Model for the Classification of Individual Lumbar Muscle Response Patterns
1992	Braden Fleming	The Effect of Quadriceps and Hamstrings Activity on Strain in the Anterior Cruciate Ligament
1991	Joseph E. Hale	Alterations of Contact Stress and Tissue Histomorphometry in Size-Dependent Osteochondral Defect Repair
1990	Richard E. Hughes	Lumbar EMG Activity During Static Asymmetric Loading of the Torso
1989	Donald D. Anderson	Dynamic Finite Element Analysis of Impulsive Loading of the Extension-Splinted Rabbit Knee
1988	Bruce Beynnon	Characterization of Anterior Cruciate ligament Strain Pattern In-vivo
1987	Tony S. Keller	Regulation of Bone Stress and Strain in the Immature and Mature Rat Femur