Miscellaneous

National Biomechanics Day 2023

National Biomechanics Day 2023

    NBD 2023 Presents A Biomechanics Parable(no, really, we do…keep reading) Why is it that some people say, “It can’t be done?” Well, probably because it can’t. But did we let that stop us? Of course not and never would we. So, we did it! We created the...

National Biomechanics Day 2021

by Paul DeVita, Lisa MacFadden, and Felipe Carpes NBD Board of Directors   Hello to all our ASB Friends and Colleagues, As the world awakens, we all emerge a bit differently than we were one and a half years ago. National Biomechanics Day has also changed and now...

Remembering Albert B. Schultz

Albert B. Schultz, PhD, the Vennema Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, and Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the College of Engineering, and Research Scientist in the Institute of...

Remembering Richard C Nelson (1932-2020)

by John Challis Richard Nelson (Dick) a founding member of the American Society of Biomechanics passed away Tuesday, December 22, 2020 at the age of 88. Dick received this undergraduate degree from St. Olaf College, and graduate degrees from the University of Houston...

The Original Biomechanists

(excerpted from R. Bruce Martin's Presidential Lecture at the 23rd Annual Conference of ASB in Pittsburgh, PA in 1999). However arbitrary the numbering of our years may be, the turning of the century and the millennium offers an opportunity to think of our history,...