NSF
- The National Science Foundation has awarded Alaa their prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award for her proposal entitled 鈥淭he Neuroeconomics of Metabolic Cost in Movement Decision Making".The NSF CAREER Award recognizes young
- The Neuromechanics lab has been awarded 2 3-year NSF grants to study the role of risk in movement control and learning. One of the proposed studies is a collaboration with Dr. Max Berniker at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago.
- Alison Pienciak was selected to be a National Science Foundation Graduate Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math K-12 Teaching Fellow.