SHARPLES NAMED HUCK EARLY CAREER CHAIR IN MOVEMENT NEUROSCIENCE

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., Sept. 25 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news release:

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - Simon Sharples, assistant professor of kinesiology in the Penn State College of Health and Human Development, has been named the Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Early Career Chair in Movement Neuroscience.

Sharples, who joined Penn State ahead of the fall 2026 semester, investigates how the spinal cord governs the strength and precision of movement, work that spans from early development through recovery after spinal cord injury.

"My research aims to understand how the spinal cord controls the strength of our movements - essentially how the nervous system decides whether a motion should be gentle or powerful, lik...