The Utah NeuroRobotics Lab received notice of award from the NSF for a new collaborative project with Dr. Mark Brinton at Elizabethtown College! This 3-year $423,768 project is focused on the development of biomimetic noninvasive electrocutaneous and transcutaneous stimulation for upper-limb amputees. The funding will also support unique training experiences between the University of Utah and Elizabethtown College (a primarily undergraduate institution in rural Pennsylvania). Dr. Brinton and his team of undergraduate researchers will join our team in Utah for the summers, and our graduate students will have opportunities to travel to Elizabethtown College in the spring/fall to teach and mentor students and explore career paths in academia. Thank you to Mark Brinton for leading this initiative and to Marshall Trout (ECE PhD student), Abby Citterman (BME BS student) and Abby Harrison (BME PhD student) for their research that served as preliminary data for this grant.
