This is a long-term project that the lab will be developing over the course of the next coming years. The goal of this project is to build an interactive, accessible research environment that will allow for students of both Bowdoin and local schools to play the role of a researcher on Kent Island. In this […]
Lab advocacy specialist, Thais Carrillo has been awarded a Gibbons Fellowship for her work on increasing accessibility and spatial reasoning in the earth sciences using virtual reality. Read more about Thais’ project featured on Bowdoin’s website in the link below! https://www.bowdoin.edu/news/2020/07/with-vr-thais-carrillo-23-opens-famous-maine-geology-site-to-all.html
Matt Donnelly ‘22, with faculty sponsor Dr. Stacy Doore, was awarded a Gibbons Summer Research Fellowship to fund the creation of the Emerging Technologies Lab, which would be Bowdoin College’s first room-scale virtual reality research and development lab. He planned to learn about virtual reality development, research organization, and how to direct a research lab from Dr. […]