The American Society of Safety Engineers’ Foundation announced recipients of the Liberty Mutual Research Fellowship program, who will focus research on safety for an aging work force. Tzurei Chen, of Eugene, OR, will be pursuing research on "Assessing the feasibility of using laboratory measures of gait imbalance to prospectively predict falls risk in the elderly." Andrew Merryweather, of Salt Lake City, will pursue research on the study to "evaluate the effects of hospital bed adjustments and slip parameters in a population of fall-prone, older adults."
