RICHARD SKALAK AWARD
(
Unit of Award: BIOENGINEERING DIVISION)

Date Established

1989

Achievement Recognized

Best paper published in Journal of Biomechanical Engineering

Limitations

None

Form of Award

Certificate

Frequency of Presentation

Annually

Adminstrator of Award

Bioengineering Division (BED)

Level of Award

Division

Recipients Selected By

BED Honors Committee

Selection Process

Nominations from BED technical committees are sent to the BED Honors Committee.

Funding Availibility

Custodian account

Past Award Recipients

1991

G. Zahalak, S. Ma

Muscle activation and contraction: constitutive relations based directly on cross-bridge kinetics

1990 Feb;112(1):52-62

1992

S.C. Cowin, A.M. Sedagh, G.M. Luo

An evolutionary Wolff's law for trabecular architecture

1992 Feb;114(1):129-36

1993

Y.C. Fung, S.Q. Liu

Elementary mechanics of the endothelium of blood vessels

1993 Feb;115(1):1-12

1994

F.K. Winston, L. Thibault, E.J. Macarak

“An analysis of the time-dependent changes in intracellular calcium concentration in endothelial cells in culture induced by mechanical stimulation”

1993 May;115(2):160-8

1995

Y. Huang, D. Rumschitzki, S. Chen, S. Weinbaum

A fiber matrix model for the growth of macromolecular leakage spots in the arterial intima

1994 Nov;116(4):430-45

1996

M.D. Buschmann, A.J. Grodzinsky

A molecular model of proteoglycan-associated electrostatic forces in cartilage mechanics

1995 May;117(2):179-92

1997

P. Pazhayannur, J.C. Bischof

“Measurement and simulation of water transport during freezing in mammalian liver tissue”

1997 Jun;119(3):269-77

1998

J.L. Emery, J.H. Omens, A.D. McCulloch

“Strain softening in rat left ventricular myocardium”

1997 Feb;119(1):6-12

1999

G.I. Zahalak, V. deLaborderie, J.M. Gucccione

The effects of cross-fiber deformation on axial fiber stress in myocardium

1999 Aug;121(4):376-85

2000

S.Q. Liu, M.M. Moore, C. Yap

Prevention of mechanical stretch-induced endothelial and smooth muscle cell injury in experimental vein grafts

2000 Feb;122(1):31-8

2001

B. Morrison III, D.F. Meaney, S.S. Marguiles, T.K. McIntosh

Dynamic mechanical stretch of organotypic brain slice cultures induces differential genomic expression: relationship to mechanical parameters

2000 Jun;122(3):224-30

2002

F.C. Anderson, M.G. Pandy

Dynamic optimization of human walking

2001 Oct;123(5):381-90

2003

A. Sverdlik, Y. Lanir

Time-dependent mechanical behavior of sheep digital tendons, including the effects of preconditioning

2002 Feb;124(1):78-84

2004

E.A. Zamir, L.A. Taber

“On the effects of residual stress in microindentation tests of soft tissue structures”

2004 Apr;126(2):276-83

2005

T.B. Owatverot, S. Oswald, Y. Chen, J.J. Wille, F.C.P. Yin

“Effect of combined cyclic stretch and fluid shear stress on endothelial cell morphological responses”

2005 Jun;127(3):374-82

2006

H.A. Himburg, M.H. Friedman

“Correspondence of low mean shear and high harmonic content in the porcine iliac arteries”

2006 Dec;128(6):852-6

2007

L. Taber, J Zhang, R. Perucchio

“Computational Model for the transition from peristaltic to pulsatile flow in the embryonic heart tube”

2007; 129(3), pp. 441-9