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The Brown and White Vol. 132 No. 5 Friday, February 17, 2017 ‘All the Lehigh News First’ LU-ALERT Vincent Liu/B&W Staff Lehigh graduate student Niloo Aflatooni reaches for jellyfish in Scott Garrigan’s virtual reality study Feb. 8 in Iacocca Hall on Mountaintop Campus. The program used the HTC Vive VR set, which utilizes two integrated sensors on opposite corners of a cubical space to create a boundary in virtual reality. Virtual reality initiative brings the world to the classroom By AUSTIN KATZ Assistant News Editor The Lehigh community is exper-imenting with the possibilities of virtual reality in practical situa-tions. A pilot study by the College of Education is using virtual reality headsets to improve the learning of K-8 students. The children will be asked to view images on their headsets and communicate their thoughts and feelings in response. Professor Scott Garrigan and the Centennial School lead teacher Sara Heintzelman will test the chil-dren over the course of a few days to see if there’s a link between VR and educational proficiency. “VR is currently unknown ter-ritory,” Garrigan said. “It is more than a new medium. You must be intensely involved, and there is so much we don’t know.” The proposed study can only begin after getting approval from Lehigh’s Office of Institutional Research, but Garrigan said he hopes to begin the study later this spring. “We have been looking at info on screens for years,” Garrigan said. “With VR, we aren’t looking at it, we’re in it. The opportunity was there, so it was the perfect envi-ronment to find (Heintzelman) and other people with VR expertise.” VR came to Lehigh last year through a partnership with the United Nations to show what it’s like to live in a Syrian refugee camp. Bill Hunter, the director of the Office of Fellowship Advising and UN Programs, said there were lines of people out the door to try the headsets. “For a period of five to six min-utes, I was in a Syrian refugee camp, and no matter where I turned, something was happening,” Hunter said. “When I took off the headset, I said, ‘How can we bring this to Lehigh? We need students to experience this.’” Hunter said VR is a particularly helpful tool when learning about global events because although it is hard to replace the actual expe-rience, if it is too dangerous to go, this is the next best thing. Students at Lehigh are also tak-ing advantage of the possibilities VR presents, though much closer to home. Alex Spiezio, ’18, Asanté Asiedu, ’17, and Nick Zambas, ’17, See VIRTUAL Page 3 Kate Morrell/B&W Staff A Lehigh University vehicle plows the roadways Feb. 9 by Sigma Phi Epsilon. Lehigh delayed classes Feb. 9. By CATHERINE MANTHORP Associate Sports Editor At 5:39 p.m. Feb. 8, an LU-ALERT informed campus Lehigh would be closed until noon the next day. To the students who read this message, it meant a snow day. But to the staff deemed essential — dining, transportation, facilities and residential services staffs — it meant work as usual. Bruce Christine, the gener-al manager of the dining man-agement team, said he tries to keep dining services and hours as normal as possible despite snow-storms that might cause universi-ty closings or delays. Christine said snowstorms are an inconvenience that require a lot of planning. But he said the more snowstorms there are and the more planning that goes into them, the more efficiently the din-ing team is able to operate. Christine said the dining team obtains extra food and disposable food before possible closings or delays because it never knows how many inches of snow the storm will bring or how classes will be affected, if at all. “It’s a lot of planning and late minute changing because no two storms have the same end result,” Christine said. See SNOW Page 4 Who is essential staff?
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Title | Brown and White Vol. 132 no. 5 |
Date | 2017-02-17 |
Month | 02 |
Day | 17 |
Year | 2017 |
Volume | 132 |
Issue | 5 |
Type | Newspaper |
Source Repository | Lehigh University |
Coverage | United States, Pennsylvania, Lehigh, South Bethlehem |
LCCN | 7019854 |
Source Repository Code | LYU |
Digital Responsible Institution | Lehigh University |
Digital Responsible Institution Code | LYU |
Issue/Edition Pattern | Semiweekly |
Title Essay | Published twice a week during the college year by the students of Lehigh University |
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Title | Page 1 |
Date | 2017-02-17 |
FullText | The Brown and White Vol. 132 No. 5 Friday, February 17, 2017 ‘All the Lehigh News First’ LU-ALERT Vincent Liu/B&W Staff Lehigh graduate student Niloo Aflatooni reaches for jellyfish in Scott Garrigan’s virtual reality study Feb. 8 in Iacocca Hall on Mountaintop Campus. The program used the HTC Vive VR set, which utilizes two integrated sensors on opposite corners of a cubical space to create a boundary in virtual reality. Virtual reality initiative brings the world to the classroom By AUSTIN KATZ Assistant News Editor The Lehigh community is exper-imenting with the possibilities of virtual reality in practical situa-tions. A pilot study by the College of Education is using virtual reality headsets to improve the learning of K-8 students. The children will be asked to view images on their headsets and communicate their thoughts and feelings in response. Professor Scott Garrigan and the Centennial School lead teacher Sara Heintzelman will test the chil-dren over the course of a few days to see if there’s a link between VR and educational proficiency. “VR is currently unknown ter-ritory,” Garrigan said. “It is more than a new medium. You must be intensely involved, and there is so much we don’t know.” The proposed study can only begin after getting approval from Lehigh’s Office of Institutional Research, but Garrigan said he hopes to begin the study later this spring. “We have been looking at info on screens for years,” Garrigan said. “With VR, we aren’t looking at it, we’re in it. The opportunity was there, so it was the perfect envi-ronment to find (Heintzelman) and other people with VR expertise.” VR came to Lehigh last year through a partnership with the United Nations to show what it’s like to live in a Syrian refugee camp. Bill Hunter, the director of the Office of Fellowship Advising and UN Programs, said there were lines of people out the door to try the headsets. “For a period of five to six min-utes, I was in a Syrian refugee camp, and no matter where I turned, something was happening,” Hunter said. “When I took off the headset, I said, ‘How can we bring this to Lehigh? We need students to experience this.’” Hunter said VR is a particularly helpful tool when learning about global events because although it is hard to replace the actual expe-rience, if it is too dangerous to go, this is the next best thing. Students at Lehigh are also tak-ing advantage of the possibilities VR presents, though much closer to home. Alex Spiezio, ’18, Asanté Asiedu, ’17, and Nick Zambas, ’17, See VIRTUAL Page 3 Kate Morrell/B&W Staff A Lehigh University vehicle plows the roadways Feb. 9 by Sigma Phi Epsilon. Lehigh delayed classes Feb. 9. By CATHERINE MANTHORP Associate Sports Editor At 5:39 p.m. Feb. 8, an LU-ALERT informed campus Lehigh would be closed until noon the next day. To the students who read this message, it meant a snow day. But to the staff deemed essential — dining, transportation, facilities and residential services staffs — it meant work as usual. Bruce Christine, the gener-al manager of the dining man-agement team, said he tries to keep dining services and hours as normal as possible despite snow-storms that might cause universi-ty closings or delays. Christine said snowstorms are an inconvenience that require a lot of planning. But he said the more snowstorms there are and the more planning that goes into them, the more efficiently the din-ing team is able to operate. Christine said the dining team obtains extra food and disposable food before possible closings or delays because it never knows how many inches of snow the storm will bring or how classes will be affected, if at all. “It’s a lot of planning and late minute changing because no two storms have the same end result,” Christine said. See SNOW Page 4 Who is essential staff? |
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