November 19, 2024Tamara Nall and Clement Ezeanii tour George Mason's College of Public Health, supporting healthcare education and celebrating the first scholarship recipient.
November 14, 2024Nursing and Social Work students had the opportunity to work together in a virtual reality simulation of clinical work with patients. The event took place in the Center for Immersive Technologies and Simulation at George Mason University's College of Public Health.
May 13, 2024Bo Han, a computer science professor in the College of Engineering and Computing at George Mason University, is working with colleagues Songqing Chen, Parth Pathak, and Craig Yu to create a research infrastructure capable of connecting extended reality experiences across varying distances.
April 9, 2024George Mason researchers are using immersive virtual reality to examine ways in which high-stress conditions may influence law enforcement officer decision-making and utilization of equitable policing strategies.
February 9, 2024Funding from the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) will create the School Nurse Leadership Academy, a first-of –its-kind program dedicated to fostering leadership in school nursing.
January 24, 202428 Master of Social Work students work with a substance-engaged adolescent in a Virtual Reality simulation. The majority of students felt more prepared to respond to changes in their client’s condition after participating in the simulation
December 11, 2023Cieslowski will lead innovation in immersive technologies including the Virtual Reality and Simulation Center, which continues to expand its team.
November 13, 2023Melissa Perry, dean of Mason’s College of Public Health, is an ardent proponent of virtual reality as a tool to help solve the nation’s health challenges. But she also worries that technology has helped create an “epidemic of loneliness” that has heightened the importance of a shared humanity and “being present for each other.”
September 22, 2023The College of Public Health announces three newly credentialed Certified Healthcare Simulation Educators - advancing toward goal of offering VR-enhanced curriculum to every student
September 14, 2023George Mason University computer science researchers are making exercise virtually fun.