Best Way to Send Humanitarian Relief
Develop a Virtual Reality and a first person 3d gaming application that is designed to inform the player that sending cash instead of household items is the best way to send humanitarian relief aid to victims of a disaster. The app also calculates the carbon footprint associated with sending household items rather than a monetary contribution.
Faculty: Dr. Koray Ozpolat
Department: College of Business, Supply Chain Management
Students: Hee Yoon Kwon
Geometry for Enzyme Efficiency
Methotrexate (MTX) is a small organic molecule to treat cancer (breast, leukemia, lymphoma) and autoimmune diseases (psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis, and Crohn’s diseases). This project requires manipulation of MTX structures and active ligand binding. The students will learn the importance of active site binding and geometry for enzyme efficiency, drug action, and drug resistance.
Faculty: Dr. Bongsup Cho,
Department: Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Students: James Chen, Alex Huang, and Julius Chen
Nanotechnology Lab Training
Design and develop a VR application as an active learning and educational tool introducing students to the concept of nanotechnology with built-in quizzes ensuring student progress.
Faculty: Jie Shen and PharmD candidate Ryan Ivone
Department: College of Pharmacy
Students: James Chen, Julius Chen, Alex Huang
Virtual Tour of Heber W. Youngken Jr. Medicinal Garden
Design and develop a Augmented Reality application for the College of Pharmacy medicinal garden and Youngken greenhouse.
Faculty: Chris Hemme, Elizabeth Leibovitz
Department: College of Pharmacy
Students: Anthony Neves, Victoria Smith
Interactive Online Modules
Develop interactive online modules about motivational interviewing, childhood obesity, and adolescent substance use. These modules will supplement an existing nursing clinical course and simulation lab experience.
Faculty: Karen Jennings Mathis
Department: College of Nursing
Students: Theodore Jackson, Aidan Hilt
VR lab for Manufacturing Applications
STAs will assist a URI Engineering team to create a virtual space with virtual tags on objects. If object recognition can be done, that would be a great extension.
Faculty: Manbir Sodhi
Department: College of Engineering
Students: Joel White
Best way to help disaster victims
Interactive VR Experience on Cash Donation for International Disaster Relief. Design and develop VR and 3D gaming applications.
Faculty: Dr. Koray Ozpolat and PhD candidate Hee Yoon Kwon
Department: College of Business
Students: Alex Ives, Phillip Na Kong, Jason Vessella
Medicinal Chemistry
Create a medicinal chemistry unit using virtual reality technology. Showing a series of synthetic molecules with their 3D structures and how they bind into the catalytic site in the malaria parasite’s proteasome. This will illustrate to the class how altering the structure of a small molecule inhibitor can improve its ability to bind to a target .
Faculty: Matthew J. Bertin
Department: College of Pharmacy
Students: Jenna Bouchard, Johnny Nguyen, Christopher Polanco
Aspirin (Acetylsalicylic Acid)
Create an interactive VR environment to allow students to interact with chemical models in more hands-on ways. These interactions include, but would not be limited to, exploding the molecule into constituent parts, modify parts and see how that effects the final molecule, and a quiz mode that allows for an assessment of what students have taken from this environment.
Faculty: Chris Hemme
Department: College of Pharmacy
Cell Culture Lab Training
Cell culture and 3D cell model formation. VR modules will train undergraduate and high school student trainees on aseptic (sterile) cell culture techniques.
Faculty: Jyothi Menon, Christopher Hemme
Department: College of Pharmacy