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Dr. Richard C. Nelson: A Water Tower Remembrance

Robert Shapiro

I graduated Brooklyn College in January 1972 with a degree in health and physical education. I expected to teach physical education and coach baseball. Unfortunately, no teaching jobs in physical education were open in New York City in the spring 1972. Instead, I became the poster boy for teaching

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Remembering Richard C. Nelson: An Introduction

John H. Challis and Stephen J. Piazza

would end up in the baseball hall of fame. His perspective explains Dr. Nelson’s philosophy on the advising of students. As has been reflected in other perspectives Dr. Nelson was a proponent of the internationalization of biomechanics in general. The perspective of Mitsumasa Miyashita (University of

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Dr. Richard C. Nelson: The Penn State Biomechanics Laboratory and Its Impact on My Career

James S. Walton

Subsequently, my dissertation involved me in a multitude of disciplines that extended far beyond animation and biomechanics. In 1982, I worked with colleagues from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on a baseball study that was published in “Science '82.” 12 , 13 The original objective (specified by

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Dr Charles J. (Chuck) Dillman: A Remembrance

Robert Shapiro, Robert Gregor, and John Challis

universities to determine where my academic career would continue. One of those recommended programs was at the University of Illinois under the direction of Dr Charles Dillman. Needless to say, when Chuck talked about his love of baseball, my PhD path was determined. While we were a small lab located in the

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Lessons Learned

Tetsuo Fukunaga

chance to realize my dreams that I had had for a long time for sport sciences. In 2015, I had an experimental gym built (70 m long, 50 m wide, and 15 m high), equipped with a 50-m track with force platforms on the surface. Also, equipment was installed to enable real-time analysis of baseball, soccer