In a cinder block basement room in Pearson Hall, inconspicuously down the corridor from the student swimming pools, Geoffrey Wright and his computer programmers create virtual realities. Wright, associate professor in the Department of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, runs the Motion-Action-Perception (MAP) lab, where his team develops immersive fantasy landscapes to help diagnose real-world balance and motor skills impairments. Now, with a new Loretta C. Duckworth Scholars Studio fellowship from Temple, Wright will spend a year building a new generation of software tools, e...

Research projects on HIV prevention in Philadelphia and hereditary disease in Saudi Arabia have won top honors for two researchers in the College of Public Health’s Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences.  The Society of Behavioral Health will award annual prizes for best research abstracts in the nation to Sarah Bass, associate professor and director of the Risk Communication Laboratory, and Mohammed Alhajji, a PhD candidate and research assistant in the Lab.  Alhajji, who won in the student research category, proposed a promising intervention to prevent the spread...