Diving into mouse brains with virtual reality

From a district perspective, Osborne noted that students have become an extension of a university by providing valuable scientific data analysis through their virtual reality (VR) platform, SyGlass. — Business photo created by jannoon028 - www.freepik.com

When students in Bernadette Barragan's neuroresearch science class at George HW Bush New Tech Odessa put on their virtual reality gear, they put themselves smack in the middle of mouse brains and they share in research being conducted by scientists at the University of South Florida.

Professor George Spirou and Dakota Johnson, PhD and postdoctoral scholar, worked with eight of Barragan's students.