BFRC Trainee Awarded Mitacs Grant in Partnership with Lululemon

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June 25, 2025

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 stimulation type, location and balance ability’. Congratulations Keara! 

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First Nations land acknowledegement

The UBC Point Grey campus is situated on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm.

UBC Balance and Falls Research Centre

UBC receives support for managing its research enterprise from the federal Research Support Fund.

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