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ATEC LLC Distinguished Speaker Lecture with Hugh Herr
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The Living Learning Communities have secured 10 tickets to the 3rd ATEC Distinguished Lecture of Spring 2015 featuring Hugh Herr, the "Leader of the Bionic Age". All LLC residents are welcome to attend this speaking engagement. Tickets are first come, first served. There are only 10 tickets available for this event. There will be 20 spots on the waitlist for tickets. In the event that an individual forfeits his or her ticket, you will be notified if you are next on the waitlist, and you will have 24 hours to either accept or deny the ticket. Tickets are exclusively for residents or PAs who are currently living in any LLC; 1 ticket per individual.
To redeem your event ticket, residents will need to meet LLC Coordinator Capri Mandella at the ATEC Plinth between 6:30-7:15pm on Wednesday, April 8th, prior to the event. Please present your EventBrite ticket in order to redeem your official event ticket. Any tickets not redeemed by 7:15pm will go to waitlisted individuals. For questions or concerns, please contact Living Learning at (972) 883-7422 or livinglearning@utdallas.edu.
For those guests who need special assistance, please contact Deborah Day at 972-883-6504 or email lectures@utdallas.edu. UT Dallas is an equal opportunity/affirmative action university.
More about Hugh Herr...
Hugh Herr, an associate professor who heads the biomechatronics research group at the MIT Media Lab, is creating bionic limbs that emulate the function of natural limbs. In 2011, Time magazine called Herr the “Leader of the Bionic Age” because of his revolutionary work in the emerging field of biomechatronics, a technology that marries human physiology with electromechanics.
A double amputee himself, Herr is responsible for breakthrough advances in bionic limbs that increase mobility and offer new hope to people with physical disabilities. Herr’s research group has developed gait-adaptive knee prostheses for transfemoral amputees and variable-impedance ankle-foot exoskeletons for patients suffering from drop foot, a gait pathology caused by stroke, cerebral palsy and multiple sclerosis. He also designed his own bionic legs and the world’s first bionic foot and calf system called the BiOM.
Herr’s name is on more than 80 peer-reviewed manuscripts and patents. The computer-controlled knee was named one of Time magazine’s “Top Ten Inventions” in 2004. The robotic ankle-foot prosthesis, which mimics the action of a biological ankle and — for the first time — provides transtibial amputees with a natural gait, was named to the same list in 2007. The same year, Herr was presented with the 13th annual Heinz Award for Technology, the Economy and Employment.
Herr’s story has been told in the biography Second Ascent, The Story of Hugh Herr and in a 2002 National Geographic film Ascent: The Story of Hugh Herr. He also was featured in CNN and in The Economist, Discover and Nature.
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