When Kristen Jakubowski suffered a season-ending concussion midway through her third year on the ice hockey team at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, she didn’t anticipate that it would take the rest of her time in college to recover.

“The journey of injury and recovery required a lot of mental stamina because no one knew when I was going to get better, and it took longer than anyone expected,” Jakubowski said. “But that experience was also the entry into my research in rehabilitation and helping people with mobility impairments.”

Ultimately, that concussion led Jakubowski to shift her degree in biomedical engineering from a sports focus to a focus in rehabilitation, eventually earning a master’s and then a Ph.D. in the field. This fall, she’s joining the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University as an American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) eFellows Postdoctoral Fellow.

Read the full story on the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering website.