Reporter's Notebook: Student Government

By KAYLA MURO Staff Writer

On Feb. 28, Student Body President

Matt Perry and Vice President Maree Horne announced at the weekly Student Senate meeting that students can now park in the first row in the Union parking lot after 5 p.m. Students can appeal parking tickets they receive from parking in these spaces going forward. These

The research began during the summer of 2022 and the team is still in the early stages of collecting data. One of the many goals is to identify risk factors and then discover how to prevent an ACL injury.

“For me, it's been great to sort of learn a little bit more of what it's like to be a part of a research group because that is something that in grad school students are going to be doing a lot of, said Justin Blankenburg, a senior majoring in pre-athletic training. Blankenburg will apply his experience in data collecting, biometrics, technology and collaboration when he attends graduate school at Kent State University parking rules will also apply during the weekends. this fall.

The Senate, in collaboration with Perry and Horne, also discussed Baldwin Wallace’s three-year living requirement that was established last semester. The three-year living requirement will not affect current students but will start for the class of 2027 in order to urge students to stay on campus for an extended period of time.

For about five to six hours a week, a couple of student researchers help bring in participants and walk them through the tests. Ledwich's lab puts on an electroencephalogram, or EEG, to measure brain wave activity while sitting and doing simple tasks on the computer, in a similar protocol as a concussion test. They repeat this step by making the participant stand on one leg while making the questions more challenging.

Student researchers then go to the engineering lab with Morgan to detect how the participant’s skeleton moves. To do this, they attach reflective patches onto the participants, use an infrared camera and analyze the results using the software programs OptiTrack and Excel.

“This provides an opportunity for students to access a type of tech that they don't normally get to see,” Morgan said.

The team’s abstract has been accepted into the International Society for Biomechanics and Sport Conference. This summer, the research team will travel to Tennessee to present the feasibility study.