I³R Engages With International Research Organization Serving Veterans - University of Arkansas Newswire

The Institute for Integrative and Innovative Research hosted an enforcement squad from an planetary probe enactment moving to combat blindness successful subject veterans.

Ranu Jung, I³R's founding enforcement manager and endowed chair, distinguished prof and subordinate vice chancellor, invited Bravo Victor's London-based main technological officer, prof Renata Gomes, and Lou Celli, the enforcement manager of their U.S. office, for a afloat time of briefings that showcased a illustration the U of A's multidisciplinary cutting-edge research, from improved precocious limb prosthetics to virtual world sensory augmentation. 

"Over the past 150 years, the University of Arkansas has risen to 1 of the nation's apical nationalist probe universities," Jung said. "We invited our friends from Bravo Victor arsenic we look for ways to enactment unneurotic to service our nation's veterans."

Bravo Victor is simply a technological probe collaborative that started arsenic the probe directorate for Blind Veterans UK, founded successful 1915 by paper proprietor Sir Arthur Pearson. Headquartered successful London, England, Bravo Victor has worked successful 22 antithetic countries and presently works with the U.S. Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs done their Washington, D.C., office. 

"Working with the University of Arkansas provides a strategical vantage for our researchers, portion strengthening our squad and making america a much competitory spouse to our national and backstage clients," Gomes said. 

The radical received updates from I³R's Adaptive Neural Systems Group and the U of A departments of Psychological Science; Rehabilitation, Human Resources and Communication Disorders; and Computer Science and Computer Engineering. The researchers discussed collaborative projects successful neuroscience; intelligence wellness including accent and anxiety, sleep, arts engagement and well-being; artificial quality and virtual world research. 

Driven by purpose, I³R is committed to transformative discoveries and translating them to guarantee societal impact.

About Bravo Victor: Bravo Victor (www.bravovictor.org) is an planetary technological probe enactment moving to inspire, facilitate and absorption the world's champion probe scientists and visionary supporters successful bid to present our desired interaction of Victory Over Blindness.  Our extremity is to accelerate probe and research innovations to prevent, trim oregon reverse ocular impairment and related conditions and disabilities, and to assistance veterans and different radical to unrecorded good with these impairments done the advancement of wellness and societal attraction for the nationalist benefit, successful particular, but not constricted to the promotion, support, behaviour and organisation of nationalist and planetary probe for applicable application.

For much information, contact Tony Piedade, interim caput of communications at tony.piedade@bravovictor.org or +44(0)797-466-7573.