*Congratulations to the 2014 NCSRR Visiting Scholars* The NCSRR will host its third Visiting Scholars Program this summer. We selected two exceptional candidates from a large and highly competitive pool of applicants based on their outstanding scientific potential, strong computational skills, and past contributions in modeling and simulation. The 2014 Scholars include James Buffi from Northwestern University and Jason Moore from Cleveland State University. Read more about the scholars and their projects here<http://www.stanford.edu/group/opensim/support/scholars.html#2014Scholars> . We also selected several excellent applicants for Outstanding Researcher Awards. This award recognizes their strong applications and will fund a visit to an OpenSim workshop, for them and their collaborators. Outstanding Researcher Award Winners include Wouter Aerts and Hossein Mokhtarzadeh. You can see the list of Outstanding Researcher Award Winners, along with several additional workshop travel award winners on the Visiting Scholars website<http://www.stanford.edu/group/opensim/support/scholars.html#2014Scholars> . *Tune in to the Next OpenSim Webinar * Simulating Quadriceps Muscle Atrophy and Activation Deficits during Gait Dr. Julie Thompson, Stanford University and Ohio State University Thursday, May 22, 2014 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time Read more and register<http://www.stanford.edu/group/opensim/support/event_details.html?id=101> *Scholar in Belgium Makes an Impact with OpenSim* Wouter Aerts, a student working with Ilse Jonkers at KU Leuven and winner of an NCSRR Outstanding Researcher Award, received a personal PhD grant to simulate transtibial amputee gait within Opensim. Wouter will work on including a contact model between the stump and prosthesis and use these forces during the simulation in order to assist in prosthetic fitting and tuning of transtibial amputees. You can check out his video<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If3nWXQ9ybc&list=PL6A56A5846D1FC8EB>in the OpenSim Gallery of Examples<https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6A56A5846D1FC8EB> . *Let us know if you have cool videos or results to share and we will add your work to the Gallery of Examples. As always, we also welcome your feedback to the project and ask for your help answering questions on our user forum <https://simtk.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=91> and growing the set of models and simulations available on Simtk.org <http://Simtk.org>.* -- *Jennifer Hicks, Ph.D.* Associate Director | NCSRR<http://www.stanford.edu/group/opensim/about/index.html> R&D Manager | OpenSim <http://opensim.stanford.edu/> Stanford University 650-498-4403 | jenhicks@stanford.edu