Laurel Kuxhaus

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Laurel Kuxhaus is an American biomechanical engineer whose research focuses on the mechanics of soft and hard tissues in joints such as the elbow and ankle, and the effects of injuries on those joints, in many cases using cervine specimens as a novel ex-vivo model. [1] A substantial contribution of her technical work demonstrated that vertebral fractures can occur under low-load, low-angle, high-repetition loading. [2]

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She recently served as a Program Officer in the Office of Strategic Coordination – The Common Fund at the National Institutes of Health. [3] Outside of her engineering work, she is an avid oboist. [4] [5] [6]

Education and career

Kuxhaus earned dual degrees in engineering mechanics and music as an undergraduate at Michigan State University, where she graduated in 2001. After a 2003 master's degree in mechanical engineering from Cornell University, she completed a Ph.D. in bioengineering in 2008 at the University of Pittsburgh. [7] Her doctoral dissertation, Development of a feedback-controlled elbow simulator: design validation and clinical application, was jointly advised by Jeffrey S. Vipperman and Mark Carl Miller. [8]

At Clarkson University, she has directed the Orthopaedic Biomechanics Laboratory since 2009. [9] After a leave from Clarkson to serve as an ASME Congressional Fellow in Bioengineering in the office of congressman Dan Lipinski, and then as a program director at the National Science Foundation from 2019 to 2023, [10] she was promoted to full professor in 2023. [7]

Recognition

Kuxhaus was named as an ASME Fellow by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2017. [11] In 2024 she became a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, "for advancements in musculoskeletal biomechanics, medical device design, technology transfer, education and pedagogy, public policy, and work within government". [12]

References

  1. ↑ Throop, A. D. W., Landauer, A. K., Clark, A. M., and Kuxhaus, L., "Cervine Tibia Morphology and Mechanical Strength: A Suitable Tibia Model?", The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, retrieved 2025-02-27{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ↑ Gale N., Zeigler S. L., Towler C., Mondal S., Issen K. A., Mesfin A., Michalek A. J., Kuxhaus L. (2018), Increased lumbar spinal column laxity due to low-angle, low-load cyclic flexion may predispose to acute injury, Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of Orthopaedic Research Society, retrieved 2025-02-27{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. ↑ Common Fund at National Institute of Health, Office of Strategic Coordination
  4. ↑ Meet The Philharmonic
  5. ↑ 'Bach Marathon' in Canton Saturday to feature more than a dozen performers, North Country Now, 31 March 2016, retrieved 2025-02-27
  6. ↑ Crane Faculty Chamber Players perform Wednesday at SUNY Potsdam, North Country Now, 16 October 2012, retrieved 2025-02-27
  7. 1 2 Laurel Kuxhaus Promoted to Full Professor at Clarkson University, Clarkson University, 28 July 2023, retrieved 2024-05-03
  8. ↑ Kuxhaus, Laurel (2008), Development of a feedback-controlled elbow simulator: design validation and clinical application (PhD thesis), University of Pittsburgh, retrieved 2024-05-03
  9. ↑ "People", Orthopaedic Biomechanics Laboratory, Clarkson University, retrieved 2024-05-03
  10. ↑ Pitt Bioengineering Alumna Named NSF Program Director, University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering, 23 July 2019, retrieved 2024-05-03
  11. ↑ ASME Fellows (PDF), American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2022, retrieved 2024-05-03
  12. ↑ "Clarkson professor inducted into the 2024 Class of the AIMBE College of Fellows", North Country Now , 28 March 2024, retrieved 2024-05-03
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