Larry Tartaglia, Ph.D., Teaching Assistant Professor

  • College/Department: College of Arts & Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences
  • Course: BIOS 353, "Virology" 
  • Student Enrollment: 34
  • Proposal: To collaborate with CITL staff on utilizing VR as a means to teach lecture content through fully immersing students in learning where they can see, decipher, and interpret real-life virological principles. With an ultimate goal to develop a VR platform that will allow students to observe and analyze virus-human interactions, including the mechanisms of the virus life cycle and the impact of diseases on human health, students in the course will be introduced to for tools creating, manipulating, and presenting 3D models of viruses in immersive virtual worlds. 
  • CITL/I&O Collaborators: Steve Sakasitz, Jeremy Mack, Brian Simboli