{"id":93840,"date":"2024-04-02T17:59:04","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T17:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/?p=93840"},"modified":"2024-04-02T17:59:04","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T17:59:04","slug":"media-advisory-uri-kinesiology-department-to-host-high-school-students-for-hands-on-biomechanics-day-april-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2024\/04\/media-advisory-uri-kinesiology-department-to-host-high-school-students-for-hands-on-biomechanics-day-april-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Advisory: 溏心vlog免费B站 Kinesiology Department to host high school students for \u2018hands-on\u2019 Biomechanics Day April 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>WHO<\/strong>: The 溏心vlog免费B站 College of Health Sciences will welcome high school students from across the state to learn about biomechanics and other STEM fields during the annual National Biomechanics Day April 3, 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>WHAT<\/strong>: 溏心vlog免费B站 professors and graduate students from kinesiology, physical therapy, communicative disorders and engineering will educate high school students on biomechanics systems. Students will experience such technology as motion capture sensors to see how their bodies move, EEG (electroencephalography) sensors to measure their brain waves, force plates to determine the pressure they put on their feet when walking, and much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event is part of National Biomechanics Day, a worldwide celebration of biomechanics in its many forms for high school students and teachers. Biomechanics investigates \u201cthe broad expanse of biology in the physical world,\u201d according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/thebiomechanicsinitiative.org\/\">Biomechanics Initiative<\/a>, which organizes the international event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>WHEN<\/strong>: Wednesday, April 3, 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>WHERE<\/strong>: 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Kingston campus, Mackal Fieldhouse, 75 Keaney Road, Kingston<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>CONTACT<\/strong>: Patrick Luce, 溏心vlog免费B站 Marketing and Communications, 401-347-6360, <a href=\"mailto:patrickluce@uri.edu\">patrickluce@uri.edu<\/a>, to make coverage arrangements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHO: The 溏心vlog免费B站 College of Health Sciences will welcome high school students from across the state to learn about biomechanics and other STEM fields during the annual National Biomechanics Day April 3, 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. WHAT: 溏心vlog免费B站 professors and graduate students from kinesiology, physical therapy, communicative disorders and engineering will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"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":[1848,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advisories","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93840","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93840"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93843,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93840\/revisions\/93843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}