{"id":74,"date":"2008-12-22T21:19:15","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T21:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/cmst\/?p=74"},"modified":"2012-12-17T21:19:59","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T21:19:59","slug":"professors-bonato-bubka-featured-on-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/cmst\/2008\/12\/22\/professors-bonato-bubka-featured-on-television\/","title":{"rendered":"Professors Bonato &#038; Bubka Featured on Television"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\"><strong>Jersey City, N.J.<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Dr. Frederick Bonato, chair of Saint Peter\u2019s College psychology department and Dr. Andrea Bubka, professor of psychology at Saint Peter\u2019s appeared in December 2008 on\u00a0<em>Weird Connections<\/em>, a television show on The Science Channel that plots relationships between unique experiments and their resulting scientific advances.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spc.edu\/Images\/Public%20Relations\/optokineticdrum.jpg\" alt=\"The optokinetic drum rotate around the participant and confuses the senses.\" width=\"260\" height=\"169\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" \/><br \/>\nEpisode 12 of\u00a0<em>Weird Connections<\/em>, \u201cThe Sick Machine,\u201d covered the work that Drs. Bonato and Bubka conducted using an optokinetic drum &#8212; a simulator that explores how vision affects self-motion perception and motion sickness. The drum\u2019s spinning, patterned interior rotates around a stationary person, confusing the senses and creating motion sickness symptoms.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The experiments that Drs. Bonato and Bubka conduct using the drum are an attempt to find a deeper understanding of how senses interact and affect not just motion sickness, but its variants such as simulator sickness and space sickness. This research is also important to NASA, because a new cure for space sickness could allow astronauts to travel to Mars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs both scientists and educators, we are, of course, in favor of anything that promotes an interest in science. We like the idea of scientific connections because it demonstrates how a basic experiment using an optokinetic drum can have practical applications down the road, such as solving some very serious problems for space exploration,\u201d commented Dr. Bonato.<\/p>\n<p>Drs. Bonato and Bubka built the drum apparatus, designed various experiments with the drum\u2019s use, and have published 10 papers\u00a0 regarding motion-sickness-related topics. Both professors are full members of the Aerospace Medical Association; their research on the topic of motion sickness began in 2000.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Dr. Bonato aside from being a highly regarded scientific reseacher is\u00a0further the Director of the\u00a0<em>Office of Faculty Research and Sponsored Programs<\/em>\u00a0at Saint Peter&#8217;s College. Dr. Bonato has been very instrumental in the initial organization of the\u00a0<em>Center for Microplasma Science\u00a0&amp;\u00a0Technology<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jersey City, N.J.\u00a0\u2013 Dr. Frederick Bonato, chair of Saint Peter\u2019s College psychology department and Dr. Andrea Bubka, professor of psychology at Saint Peter\u2019s appeared in December 2008 on\u00a0Weird Connections, a television show on The Science Channel that plots relationships between unique experiments and their resulting scientific advances. Episode 12 of\u00a0Weird Connections, \u201cThe Sick Machine,\u201d covered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/cmst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/cmst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/cmst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/cmst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/cmst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/cmst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/cmst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/cmst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/cmst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/cmst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}