“When I’m in a fatigue state, I might not be in that physical readiness to handle that misstep, right? And so, often times, we think that the injury comes with your foot hitting the ground and it’s the result of how your body responds to that foot that’s hitting the ground that my group anticipates is the reason, right? So, it’s not necessarily the level, the impact, it’s how my body responds to that impact. That’s more important. And in a fresh state I can respond with that physical readiness. In a fatigue state, whether it be anatomical or physiological or whether it’s mental, I can’t respond to that.”

Meet, Josh Bailey (bit.ly/3opfnmd), an assistant professor in the Department of Movement Sciences (bit.ly/3dYBnPJ) at the University of Idaho. Josh can’t seem to get away from runners. A runner himself, Josh now even studies this group of athletes. Specifically, he wants to understand how endurance runners manipulate the pattern of their gait during a long training run. He wants to help runners limit their chance of chronic injuries, especially when they become fatigued.

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More U of I Research:

Glaciologist Tim Bartholomaus and former U of I master’s student Tristan Amaral tested six methods to predict iceberg calving on 50 of Greenland’s glaciers that terminate in the sea. To reduce uncertainty in coastal flooding during the coming years, they identified the best way to include iceberg calving in simulations of future glacier and ice sheet loss. Read more (bit.ly/34sdwVI).

As part of a team at the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, U of I alumnus Ensheng Dong helped develop an interactive world map that shows the status of COVID-19 around the world. The map tracks the number of confirmed cases, deaths and recovered individuals for all affected countries in real time. Read more (bit.ly/2G6i7Uc).

A University of Idaho-led team will tackle a pair of viruses that cause major losses to the potato industry. U of I potato virus expert Alex Karasev will lead the project, which is funded by a $5.8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute for Food and Agriculture. Read more (bit.ly/35trsOg).

Music:

“Young Republicans” by Steve Combs (bit.ly/2PsMCpw) via freemusicarchive.org, not modified (bit.ly/2Ju7MQb).

“Driven to Success” by Scott Holmes (bit.ly/3dXDvY9) via freemusicarchive.org, not modified (bit.ly/34rlEWq).