Mentoring

Paid Summer Research Opportunities- Deadline to Apply 2/10/2025

RCEU Summer 2025 Undergraduate Research job opportunities - UAH RCEU 

What is RCEU? It's the Research and Creative Experience for Undergraduates

https://www.uah.edu/undergraduate-research/summer-community-of-scholars/rceu

Want to see what Summer 2025 opportunities are possible? Review the project descriptions here. The deadline to apply is Feb. 10th, 2025

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UAH Honor’s Day Charger Blue asked students did any factuly or staff have a particular impact on them this year [2024]
“Dr. Sara Harper, Kinesiology. She has been the most motivated professor I have ever had. She's put in so much effortin helping out all of the students doing research and I am very thankful for her!”

Visual Contrast Enhancement for Fall Risk Reduction 

Every day, adults risk falling on the stairs, jeopardizing their health and wellbeing. The risk of these falls may be reduced, however, through simple changes in the environment. The purpose of our investigation is to assess the real-world effectiveness of such environmental changes through the addition of black vinyl stair edge highlighters on each step and vertical ‘black and white’ striping on the face of the bottom and top steps to reduce stumbles and the associated consequences of falls. In addition, we are also examining factors that affect the ability to recover from a stumble such as how close the nearest handrail is and whether distractions are present (e.g. mobile device use). While the independent effect of these factors on fall risk and severity may be obvious, how their interaction affects fall risk and severity is not.

Utah State Today - Filling the Gaps in Stair Safety

Students Mentored: Alex Braeger, master’s, Kenneth Harrison, master’s, Samantha Corbridge, UG, Christopher Long, UG, Shandon Poulsen, UG, Brevin Zollinger, UG, Emmalee Rolfe, UG, Travis Boman, UG, Amy Hale, UG, McKay Wilding, UG, Chayston Brown, UG.

Spring 2021 student presentations:

Travis Boman : https://symposium.foragerone.com/2021-usu-student-research-symposium/presentations/22158

*Samantha Corbridge and Christopher Long : https://symposium.foragerone.com/2021-usu-student-research-symposium/presentations/21440

*Students were awarded the 2021 Student Research Symposium Social Sciences and Education Oral Presentation Award. https://symposium.foragerone.com/2021-usu-student-research-symposium

Distraction’s influence on handrail use and successful stairway negotiation - accepted by the Journal of Safety Research (Spring 2022).

Relationship of eccentric strength and forward perturbation restabilization after foot contact

Lower Limb Asymmetries Among Older Adults

Blocking a Balance Recovery Step

The connections between musculoskeletal injury and global reaction