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Congratulations are in order for Jackie Maciukiewicz, who successfully defended her Master's thesis on August 17th, 2017. Jackie presented her research entitled "Analysis of high and low physical functioning breast cancer survivors within two years of treatment". Great job, Jackie!

Jackie is continuing on in her studies in the DIESEL lab as a PhD student. Her research focus will continue to be centered around breast cancer survivors and physical function post treatment. 

Members of DIESEL will be travelling to the Ontario Biomechanics Conference (OBC) at the Nottawasaga Inn in Alliston, Ontario on March 10-12th to present some of their recent research to fellow biomechanics undergraduate and graduate students. Now in it's 14th year, OBC is organized to provide an opportunity for Ontario biomechanics students to network and present their work in a casual and nurturing environment.

Congratulations are in order for Rachel Whittaker, who successfully defended her Master's thesis on December 21st, 2016. Rachel presented her research entitled "Upper extremity kinematic changes and shoulder muscle fatigue in a repetitive goal directed task".

DIESEL at the Association of Canadian Ergonomists Conference

This week, Professor Clark Dickerson is headed to Raleigh, North Carolina for the 40th annual American Society of Biomechanics (ASB) Conference.

The DIESEL team is heading to Hamilton, Ontario this week for the 2016 Canadian Society for Biomechanics (CSB) Conference! This bi-annual conference brings biomechanists and ergonomists from across Canada together to present research on a wide variety of topics that focus on engineering, rehabilitation science, and kinesiology.

This past week, a few members of DIESEL travelled to Winterthur, Switzerland, for the 11th Conference of the International Shoulder Group!

Congratulations to Carmen Liang for successfully proposing her Masters (MSc) thesis topic on Wednesday, June 29th. Carmen is focusing on manual matering handling (MMH) tasks, and how they are designed for workers across all body types. She hopes that her research will help to quantify shoulder strategies for workers of all body compositions, as well as inform future MMH task design.

Jackie successfully proposed her Masters (MSc) thesis on Wednesday, June 15th. Her topic is focusing on breast cancer survivors who have completed treatment but are experiencing shoulder pain and dysfunction. Over the next year, Jackie hopes to quantify some of that dysfunction with her research and inform future rehabilitation strategies for this population.