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Your central hub for all news related to the Origins of Balance Deficits and Falls Research Cluster. Explore news and updates about activities relating to our research cluster below. 

  1. mitacs
    June 25, 2025

    BFRC Trainee Awarded Mitacs Grant in Partnership with Lululemon

    We are thrilled to announce that Keara Sutherland, PhD student in Dr. Mark Carpenter’s Lab at UBC, was awarded an 18-month Mitacs Accelerate Grant in partnership with Lululemon to investigate ‘The effects of vibratory stimulation on static and dynamic balance control: interactions between…

  2. JoshThesis
    May 12, 2025

    Congratulation to Josh Donald for defending his MSc Thesis!

    We are pleased to announce that Josh Donald, under the supervision of Dr. Mark Carpenter in the Neural Control of Posture and Movement Lab, has successfully defended his master’s thesis titled "Peripheral and central vestibular contributions to perception of rotation in healthy aging".Using a…

  3. NBS2025
    May 6, 2025

    Northwest Biomechanics Symposium 2025

    Congratulation to the BFCR trainees who presented excellent talks and poster at the 20th annual Northwest Biomechanics Symposium, held at UBC on May 2-3, 2025. Focusing on student learning, collaboration and knowledge transfer, the symposium celebrates biomechanical research across the Pacific…

  4. Solenne Paper
    March 27, 2025

    How Emotions Can Modulate Vestibular-Motor Responses

    A newly published study in the Journal of Physiology, by co-first authors Dr. Martin Zaback and Solenne Villemer, demonstrates that emotional and arousal states can modulate balance responses evoked by the vestibular system. This research was conducted in Dr. Mark Carpenter’s Lab in collaboration…

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