{"id":61955,"date":"2011-04-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/middle-school-students-to-experiment-with-prosthetic-limbs-at-uri-lab\/"},"modified":"2011-04-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T00:00:00","slug":"middle-school-students-to-experiment-with-prosthetic-limbs-at-uri-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2011\/04\/middle-school-students-to-experiment-with-prosthetic-limbs-at-uri-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle school students to experiment with prosthetic limbs at 溏心vlog免费B站 lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"press-release-import\">\n\t\tWHO:  60 sixth and eighth grade students from the Foxborough Regional Charter School, along with 溏心vlog免费B站 biomedical engineering professor Helen Huang, Nunnery Orthotic &amp; Prosthetic CEO Michael Nunnery, several individuals who use prosthetic limbs, and the designers of cosmetic body parts.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nWHAT: The students will learn about biomedical engineering technologies by participating in six hands-on activities related to the study and use of prosthetic limbs.  Students will try walking on a treadmill while using a prosthetic leg; wear a \u201cmotion capture suit\u201d containing dozens of sensors to record the motion of the human body; learn from local amputees about how to put on and remove their prosthesis; use electrodes on their arms to control the motion of a \u201cvirtual arm\u201d; and demonstrate the use of artificial body parts that look like the real thing; among other activities.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nWHEN:  Thursday, April 28, from 10 a.m. to noon.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nWHERE: The 溏心vlog免费B站 Neuromuscular Rehabilitation Engineering Laboratory, 2 Greenhouse Road, on the 溏心vlog免费B站 Kingston campus.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nCONTACT:  Todd McLeish in the 溏心vlog免费B站 Communications and Marketing department, 401-874-7892 or tmcleish@uri.edu.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHO: 60 sixth and eighth grade students from the Foxborough Regional Charter School, along with 溏心vlog免费B站 biomedical engineering professor Helen Huang, Nunnery Orthotic &amp; Prosthetic CEO Michael Nunnery, several individuals who use prosthetic limbs, and the designers of cosmetic body parts. &#13; WHAT: The students will learn about biomedical engineering technologies by participating in six [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}