Kinesiology doctoral candidate I-Ling Yeh receives grant, award

I-Ling-Yeh-webI-Ling Yeh, Kinesiology doctoral candidate in the Human Sensorimotor Control Laboratory and advisee of Kinesiology professor Jürgen Konczak, Ph.D., received a travel grant of $500 from the American Occupational Therapy Association to present at the Occupational Therapy Research Summit in Pittsburgh on May 20. She presented early results of her thesis work titled “Can Proprioception be Trained in Chronic Stroke? Two Case Reports.”

Ms. Yeh also has been awarded a Women’s Philanthropic Leadership Circle (WPLC) Graduate Student Award of $2500 to use for her thesis research and preparation. The award will be presented at the WPLC Annual Awards Celebration on June 23. The mission of the WPLC is to “create a welcoming circle of women that combines its resources to support and develop women leaders and philanthropists through the College of Education and Human Development.”