- February 12, 2025
George Mason College of Public Health Awarded Ground-Breaking Accreditation from Society for Simulation in Healthcare.
- February 11, 2025
Lab for Immersive Technologies and Simulation awarded Society for Simulation in Healthcare accreditation - the first public health college in the world to achieve this ground-breaking milestone.
- January 14, 2025
Virtual reality pilot program shows promise for preventing substance misuse and violence.
- January 14, 2025
New research from Kenneth Griffin, a professor in the Department of Global and Community Health, shows that the virtual reality (VR) program helps students handle complex social situations. This success has led to a new research grant to continue the study.
- November 19, 2024
Tamara Nall and Clement Ezeanii tour George Mason's College of Public Health, supporting healthcare education and celebrating the first scholarship recipient.
- November 14, 2024
Nursing 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, 2024
Bo 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, 2024
George 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, 2024
Funding 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, 2024
28 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