GW Engineering Graduate Helping Amputees Thrive


July 26, 2023

Sarah Malinowski in front of the Veterans Memorial Park sign

Lily Speredelozzi/GW Today

In the article "GW Alumna Aiding Amputees," GW Today detailed the journey Sarah Malinowski, M.S. '23, took to bring her prosthetic knee prototype, Rugged Redemption, to hospitals in Ukraine with the purpose of aiding amputees affected by the ongoing war with Russia.

Here is an excerpt from the article: "Returning to normal is also the entire basis of the prototype Malinowski has spent years meticulously developing for active transfemoral amputees, especially veterans, to regain their lifestyle without having to manually change or adjust their artificial knee so the activities they’ve done all their lives can once again become habitual."

Read the full article on GW Today.