This summer brings an end to my time as Awards Chair, and I’m excited to be in person this year to introduce our many winners and finalists (see full list below for NACOB presentations). During the closing ceremonies, I’ll announce the Journal of Biomechanics and Clinical Biomechanics awards and the ASB President’s Award given to President Hsiao-Wecksler’s favorite poster!

I am excited to pass this role onto Rumit Singh Kakar, and I am thankful to him and the Standing Awards Committee (Clair Milner, Dennis Anderson, Hugo Giambini, David Lipps) who helped greatly with awards management. Together we updated the award submission process, created review rubrics for all awards, and are working towards providing improved descriptions and guidance for the awards.

I’m sad to leave the ASB Executive Board, but so thankful for the new friendships I’ve made.

Thank you all for being so kind during my tenure as Awards Chair. I enjoyed every moment of being the steward of the ASB Awards.  ASB is a wonderful community with so many people deserving of recognition.

To read more about our 2022 ASB Award Winners, please visit the ASB website. Please also join us for these sessions in Ottawa:

ASB Early Career Achievement Award: Amy Lenz, University of Utah
August 22nd, 10:45 – 12:15

ASB Pre-Doctoral Achievement Award: Pawel Golyski, Georgia Institute of Technology
August 22nd, 10:45 – 12:15

Borelli Award Symposium: Thomas S. Buchanan, University of Delaware
August 23rd, 9:15-10:15

Hay Award Symposium: Matt Nurse, Nike
August 24th, 9:15-10:15

Goel Award for Translational Research in Biomechanics: Richard Lieber, Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
August 24th, 10:45 – 12:15

Jean Landa Pytel Award for Diversity Mentorship in Biomechanics: Brian Davis, Cleveland State University
August 24th, 10:45 – 12:15

Founders’ Award: Brian Umberger, University of Michigan
August 24th, 10:45 – 12:15

Journal Awards session presentations
August 23rd, 10:45 – 12:15

Clinical Biomechanics Award Finalists
Characterization of elbow flexion recovery following surgery for traumatic brachial plexus injury
Eric J. Noonan, Sandesh G. Bhat, Griffin Mess, Emily Miller, Paul Kane, Alexander Y. Shin, Kenton R. Kaufman

Patellofemoral knee mechanics 3 months after ACL reconstruction are associated with markers of patellofemoral cartilage degradation 24 months after surgery
Jack R. Williams, Kelsey Neal, Abdulmajeed Alfayyadh, Jacob J. Capin, Ashutosh Khandha, Kurt Manal, Lynn Snyder-Mackler, Thomas S. Buchanan

Journal of Biomechanics Finalists
Shear wave tensiometry predictions of Achilles tendon force during running
Alex J. Reiter, Jack A. Martin, Keith A. Knurr, Darryl G. Thelen

Direct intraoperative length-tension measurements of human gracilis muscle
Benjamin I. Binder-Markey, Lomas S. Persad, Alexander Y. Shin, William Litchy, Kenton R. Kaufman, Richard L. Lieber