Virtual Reality Laboratory

Director of the Lab: Dr. Sharad Sharma Assistant Professor

Department of Computer Science, Bowie State University Bowie, MD 20715

Email: ssharma@bowiestate.eduPh: (301) 860-4502

Lab Website: http://www.cs.bowiestate.edu/~sharad/vrlab/index.html

Virtual Reality Laboratory

Other equipmentCyberGlove II, 18 Sensor, Wireless

Z800 Dual Pro Ruggedized Head Mounted DisplayVirtualCube Head Tracker

5DT Data Glove 5 Ultra, RH5DT Data Glove 5 Ultra, LH

5DT Data Glove Ultra Wireless Kit4 Alienware 3D Gaming Desktops.

NVIS nVisor SX111 high-resolution head-mounted display

WorldViz 3D Wall Touch PRO

Student work

Implementation of character behavior in multi-user Virtual Reality Environment.

•Avatar Evacuation inside an airplane using multi-user Virtual reality environment. •Experimental design approach for assessing human behavior (stress, panic, anger, trust, etc.) in emergency evacuation using Multi-user virtual environment.

Student work in Second Life and Unity 3D

Protein Structure and Crystallography

Dr. Bradford Braden - Leader

Binding of a C60 fullerene to an anti-fullerene antibody. A collaboration of Bowie State University’sProtein Structure Laboratory, Columbia University and New York University

Cyber Security and Emerging Technologies

• BSU designated a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education by DHS and NSA on June 14, 2011

• Goal of this program: to increase cyber security nationwide through education & training

• DHS & NSA Designations: – Center of Academic Excellence in Information

Assurance Education (CAE-IAE)– Center of Academic Excellence in Research (CAE-R)

• BSU joins other institutions, such as, Johns Hopkins U., Purdue U. & Princeton U.

Dr. Claude Turner - Leader

Recent Program Ehancements

• $1M equipment donation from Cisco Inc. to establish an IA and security lab

• Over $1M in federal grants to build Information Assurance infrastructure

• Another $1M in federal funds within the last year• Established a cyber-security lab in Computer Science

dept.• Established an online cyber security laboratory in Dept.

Management Information Systems• Developed four Information Assurance programs

Working with Students Doctoral students conducting research in IA

Speaker forensicsData privacy and securityNetwork security Cloud Computing

Cyber security teamSix undergraduate students competed in Maryland Cyber

Challenge in October 2011, & Feb. 2012 Some of students have published in Information Assurance in

peer reviewed journals

Plant Biotechnology Program

Dr. George Ude (Leader) and Dr. George Acquaah

RAPD PCR Using A-18 primer

100bp NC p1 p2 p3 p4 p1 p2 p3 p4 p1 p2 p3 p4 p1 p2 p3 p4 p1 p2 p3 p4 p1 p2 p3 p4 p1 p2 p3 p4 p1 p2 p3 00bp

RAPD –Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA

AFLP – Amplified Fragment LengthPolymorphic DNA