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Numerous reports indicate that the incidence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in returning OEF/OIF military personnel is creating a significant healthcare challenge. These findings have served to motivate research on how to better develop and disseminate evidence-based treatments for PTSD. Virtual Reality delivered exposure therapy for PTSD has been previously used with reports of positive outcomes. This article details how virtual reality applications are being designed and implemented across various points in the military deployment cycle to prevent, identify and treat combat-related PTSD in OIF/OEF Service Members and Veterans. The summarized projects in these areas have been developed at the University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies, a U.S. Army University Affiliated Research Center, and this paper will detail efforts to use virtual reality to deliver exposure therapy, assess PTSD and cognitive function and provide stress resilience training prior to deployment.

Wyatt is the second person on staff in WT's department of communication and marketing services to leave the university this summer.

\"We just need someone (with) boots on the ground,\" said foundation chairwoman Doris Alexander. \"It's difficult for the board to attend to all the needs of the organization on an everyday basis.\" \"I'm excited about being able to help on this interim assignment,\" [Bill Anderson] said. \"I'm pleased that the board had the confidence in me to step in to assist at this time.\" \"Mr. Anderson is very capable, and he's devoted to 'Texas,'\" Alexander said. \"Presumably, he will return to the board when a permanent director has been named.\"

[Rick Perry]'s veto also denied funding for 35 other projects from colleges across the state. [Steven Jones] disagrees with Perry's statement, stating that AC, other Texas community colleges and local legislators carefully followed budget instructions throughout the legislative session. \"Basically, this $3.8 million is the amount of money that the state gives Amarillo College to help provide health insurance for employees,\" Jones said. \"Now, the governor is telling us to find that money from other sources.\" \"The impact of this veto is significant -- and negative,\" Jones said. \"We must not wait two years for the next legislative session to correct this mistake and restore the funding taken away by this veto.\"

\"Once you break it down, our net will be just a little more than $600,000 per year,\" [Gary Barnes] said. \"That doesn't leave us with a lot of room after all the other day-to-day operational costs.\" WT will institute \"flat rate\" tuition this fall, which can deflate costs for students, Barnes said. \"We think engineering is an important program for this area, and we'll consider to pursue that,\" Barnes said.

\"It's something that needed to be done, and I agreed with it,\" [Joe Groves] said. \"We've been talking about it for a couple months.\" \"I'm thrilled about that,\" he said. \"I want to make sure we can do everything to bring people out to the performance. It's an exciting time.\" \"He did seem to think that Monday was his last day with 'Texas,\" but he had no grounds for thinking that,\" [Doris Alexander] said. \"He will finish out this exciting season with the musical.\"

\"For years, people have voiced opinions that WT needs a presence in Amarillo,\" said Gary Barnes, vice president for business and finance at WT. \"We'll first look at existing market data -- what programs are being offered and what aren't,\" he said. \"We'll also interview major employers, educators and community leaders, then survey employers and potential students.\" \"We need to know if there are services we can offer in Amarillo that people can't get elsewhere,\" Barnes said. \"Then we'll move forward from there.\"

May 29--Summer school at Eastern New Mexico University in Portales begins Monday. Credit: Amarillo Globe-News, Texas

\"Our theme for the MySpace page is, 'This is not your parents' museum. It's a cool place to be,'\" [Buster Ratliff] said. \"We want to maintain institutional integrity but be a little edgier, too.\" \"Successful museums can't be static,\" [Guy Vanderpool] said. \"They must adapt to new methods of communication to effectively serve their community, and that's what we're doing at PPHM.\" \"We're not just that little place in Canyon anymore,\" Ratliff said. \"Technology allows us to have a much broader scope and show off what we have to the rest of the world.\"