Dr. Dean Sicking from the University of Alabama Birmingham is working to improve football helmet technology to decrease concussions and other effects of violent collisions. With all of the sport’s ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- The engineer who helped revolutionize safety in auto racing plans to begin player testing of a new football helmet that he predicts will significantly reduce concussions. Dr. Dean ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS)-- Jefferson engineering students have created a new football helmet to help protect young minds. The new helmet was presented Tuesday, coincidentally, as new research was released ...

NATICK, Mass. -- Sometimes you need to put on your thinking cap to develop the best helmets for warfighters. Scott Bennet has spent decades doing just that. Bennet has spent most of his nearly 30-year ...

NATICK, Mass. (Nov. 1, 2012) -- Whether someone absorbs a hit by an improvised explosive device or a charging linebacker, the effect can be devastating on the human brain. Knowing that, researchers ...

BATON ROUGE, La., Oct. 24, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In the winter of 2019, the National Football League hosted its Helmet Challenge Symposium in Youngstown, Ohio, bringing together 300 engineers, ...

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The sight was a common one for Andrew Kolpacki. For many a Sunday, he would watch NFL games on TV and see quarterbacks putting their hands on their helmets, desperately ...

You could say Chris Yakacki is making serious headway in the effort to develop a safer football helmet. The CU Boulder alumnus, now a CU Denver mechanical engineering professor, is developing and ...