Rackham Hall Reno Orthotics & Prosthetics program has new home EMU assistant professor Jacob


Lindquist, center, works with orthotics and prosthetics (O&P) graduate students in the new O&P plaster lab. The students are casting and fabricating an upper extremity prosthesis and will then wear the device over their hand for 48 hours to learn what motions are required to operate it. The new lab is “state of the art,” notes Lindquist. “It’s similar to the plaster rooms that clinicians use in clinical practice.”


The plaster lab is one of several


lab and classroom additions to newly renovated Rackham Hall, which is now home to the O&P program, as well as the exercise science, nursing, occupational therapy, physician assistant, and social work programs, and the office of nutrition services. “We’ve moved from having a single


lab and classroom to a space that has flexible rooms, which function both as classrooms and laboratories,” says


Wendy Beattie, clinical and program director of the O&P program. “In addition, everything is now in one building, enabling better communication and interaction between faculty and students.” 3


— Eva Menezes


Read more about Rackham’s renovation at emich.edu/rackham.


Photograph by FJ Gaylor Photography


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