Recipients in the news.

Michael Schubert, PT, PhD, recipient of a 2000 Promotion of Doctoral Studies (PODS) II scholarship and a 2005 research grant, recently coauthored an article, "Recovery of Dynamic Visual Acuity in Bilateral Vestibular Hypofunction," with Susan J Herdman, PT, PhD; Courtney D Hall, PT, PhD; Vallabh E Das, PhD; and Ronald J Tusa, MD, PhD. The article was based on research that was supported by Schubert's PODS award. It appeared in the April 2007 issue of Archives of Otolaryngology--Head & Neck Surgery (2007; 133: 383-389).

Herdman received a Foundation-funded doctoral scholarship grant in 1984.

Schubert also has been active in disseminating the findings of his Foundation-funded research grant, "Mechanisms of Gaze Stability in Recovery of Dynamic Visual Acuity (DVA)." In February, he presented a poster, "Mechanism of DVA Recovery With Vestibular Rehabilitation," at the Association for Research in Otolaryngology in Denver, Colo.

Allison Hyngstrom, PT, MPT, a recipient of a 2003 PODS I scholarship and a 2004 PODS II scholarship, coauthored an article, "Intrinsic Electrical Properties of Spinal Motorneurons Vary With Joint Angle," with Michael D Johnson, Jack F Miller, PhD, and CJ Heckman, PhD. The article was published in the March edition of Nature Neuroscience (DOI: 10.1038/nn1985). The research reported was partially funded by Hyngstrom's PODS awards.

Richard K Shields, PT, PhD, FAPTA, the president of the Foundation, former trustee, former chair of the Foundation's Scientific Review Committee, and a 1987 recipient of a Foundation doctoral student support grant, and Shauna Dudley-Javoroski, PT, MPT, a recipient of a 2003 McMillan scholarship, a 2005 PODS I scholarship, and a 2006 PODS II scholarship, recently coauthored an article published in Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair (2007;21:169; DOI: 10.1177/15459 68306293447). This article, "Musculoskeletal Adaptations in Chronic Spinal Cord Injury: Effects of Long-term Soleus Electrical Stimulation Training," is based on findings from their current study, "Musculoskeletal Plasticity After Spinal Cord Injury." Dudley-Javoroski was supported by her PODS scholarships while working on the study. The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research (NCMRR) and the Christopher Reeve and Sam Schmidt Paralysis Foundations.