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Congratulations to Shruthi on passing her preliminary exam earlier this summer as well as getting married this past weekend.

Abstracts for 2019 Advances in Motor Learning and Motor Control meeting are open ( http://www.motor-conference.org/openconf.php ). The Neuromechanics lab looks forward to learning about the great research that has been done since last year's meeting.

Thank you Yan and Kemper for joining our lab for the past year we wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors!

Alaa attended the Neural Control of Movement meeting in Toyama, Japan. There she presented Colin and Dan's work titled "Saccade vigor reflects utility in effort-based decisions". Next year's meeting will be in Dubrovnik, Croatia.

The Neuromechanics Lab participated in the Rocky Mountain American Society of Biomechanics 2019 meeting. There Colin presented his work winning best Master's Presentation for his work titled, "Saccade vigor reflects choice preference". Additionally, Shruthi was able to give a podium titled, "Should I stay or should I go: vigor of...

The lab would like to thank Dr. Erik Summerside for all of his contributions to the lab during his tenure with the Neuromechanics lab. We wish him well in his future endevors!

The lab attended the Advances in Motro Learning and Motor Control meeting before the Society for Neuroscience's anual meeting. At MLMC Erik presented his work titled, "Effort cost of reaching increases with aging." Additionally, Colin presented his work on saccades vigor reflecting decision utility at SfN. Congratulations to both of...

Robbie Courter and Daniel Apuan join the neuromechanics lab. Robbie joins us from the University of Virginia (BS BME 2018) and Dan joins us from California State University Fresno (BS ME 2018).

Shruthi Sukumar joins the lab as a C.S. Ph.D. student. Welcome!

The lab has a great showing at ASB 2017. Alaa presents in the Energetic Optimization Symposium organized by James Finley, alongside Max Donelan and Manoj Srinivisan. Erik presents two posters on 1) why we choose to walk vs run and 2) how reward increases vigor and reduces variability. Last, but...