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News & Events

SoHE News & Events: December 7-13

VR 101 with Kevin Ponto | Raison Sauna Article
Kid asks the popular question, How Does Virtual Reality Work?

VR still from Blue Sky videoDS Associate Professor Kevin Ponto was asked by an eight-year-old, “how does virtual reality work?” as part of a Blue Sky Science video by the Morgridge Institute and Wisconsin State Journal. And people want to know the answer! The VR 101 article was picked up in over 20 states. Watch the Blue Sky Science video.

Can Going to a Sauna Make Me Happy? Article

Research by HDFS Professor, Charles Raison, PhD,  was covered in an article in New York magazine’s The Cut. The focus was the benefits of hyperthermia found in his 2016 study featured in JAMA Psychiatry. Read The Cut story.