Sasha ZIll

Instructor of the Year Award, 1989, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, Marshall University School of Medicine.

Golden Apple Teaching Award, American Medical Student Association Award, Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, Marshall University, 2002, 2005

Invited Speaker:

Department of Zoology, J.W. Goethe University, Frankfurt, West Germany, May 1982.

Department of Zoology, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, West Germany, June 1982.

Centre Nationale de Recherche Scientifique, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France, June 1982.

British Society for Experimental Biology, Symposium on Feedback and Motor Control, Glasgow, Scotland, July 1984.

Graham Hoyle Memorial Symposium, Friday Harbor Marine Laboratories, University of Washington March 1986.

Neuroscience Program and Department of Entomology, University of Illinois, May 1986.

Department of Physiology and Neurobiology Laboratories, University of Arizona, May 1988.

Department of Biology, University of Connecticut, March 1989.

Office of Naval Research sponsored Symposium on "Locomotion Control in Legged Invertebrates", National Academy Study Center, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, September 1991.

Office of Naval Research sponsored Symposium on "Autonomous Robotic Systems", Newport, Rhode Island, June 1996.

Office of Naval Research sponsored Symposium on "Autonomous Robotic Systems", MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 1997.

Office of Naval Research sponsored workshop on "Muscle-like actuators", Indian Head, Maryland, May 1998.

Office of Naval Research sponsored Symposium on "Autonomous Robotic Systems", Panama City, Florida, May 1999.

DFG sponsored Symposium “Perspectives in the neurobiology of movement control – from systems to subcellular level”, Blauberen, Germany, July 1999.

Office of Naval Research sponsored Symposium on "Hexapod Robots", Arlington, Virginia, July 2001.

Neurological Sciences Institute, Oregon State University Health Sciences Center, Portland Oregon, June 2002

DFG sponsored Symposium, “Systems Approach to Motor Behaviour: from Physiology To Biomimetic Models”, Bielefeld, Germany, July 2002

Funding:

NIH PBS Award R01 NS22628, 1985‑1989. "Neuronal Mechanisms of Reflex Plasticity".

Whitehall Foundation Grant, 1986‑1990. "Functions of sense organs that monitor an animal's own behavior".

Whitehall Foundation Grant, 1990-1994. "Maintaining stable postures in unstable environments: mechanisms of load compensation in insects".

Office of Naval Research Grant, 1992-1995 - "Functions of proprioceptive inputs in normal and perturbed walking".

Defense Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (DEPSCoR) Grant, 1993-1994- "Morphological studies of leg sense organs that adapt walking patterns".

University Research Initiative Support Program Grant, Department of Defense administered by the Office of Naval Research, Principal Investigator, 1996-2002, "Neurobiology of Locomotion and its implementation in robotics".

Air Force Grant, 2000-2003 – “A climbing robot for penetrating deeply buried facilities and barricaded positions”, subaward.

NSF Grant IBN-0235997, 2003-2006 “Sensory Signals of Load in Freely Walking Animals”.

Institutional Service and Administration

Administrative duties and Committees:

Chairman, Seminar Committee, University of Colorado Medical School, 1986‑1987.

Curriculum Committee, University of Colorado Medical School, 1983‑1984.

Faculty Senate Representative, University of Colorado Medical School, 1983‑1985.

Executive Committee of Department of Anatomy, University of Colorado Medical School, 1986‑1987.

Seminar Committee, Marshall University School of Medicine, 1988 - 1992.

President, Tri‑State Chapter, Society for Neuroscience 1989-1990.

Anatomy Chair Search Committee, Marshall University School of Medicine, 1990-1991.

Graduate Academic Appeals Committee, Marshall University, 1991 - present.

BRSG Grant review committee, Marshall University, 1992 - 1993.

Anatomy Faculty Search Committee, Marshall University School of Medicine, 1998-present.

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