<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/blog/2024/capstone-project-firefighter-stress.php" dsn="blogs"><type>Internal</type><external_link/><featured/><category>The Charger Blog</category><pubDate>05/22/2024</pubDate><title>Students Develop Virtual Reality Heart Monitoring Program to Help Firefighters Monitor and Manage Stress</title><description>Four seniors and Professor Mehdi Mekni, Ph.D., collaborated with a West Haven-based virtual reality training developer and the Cleveland Fire Department to develop a program that could one day impact first responders everywhere.</description><hide-description/><author>Jackie Hennessey, Contributing Writer</author><author-details/><hide-author/><date>May 22, 2024</date><image><img src="https://newhaven.edu/_resources/images/news/non-college-specific/blog/2024/engineering-capstone-lg.jpeg" alt="Left to right: Kyle Muldoon ’24, Sean Vargas-Altamirano ’24, Matthew Lamour ’24, and James Mok ’24 present their senior capstone project at the University. "/></image><image-caption>Left to right: Kyle Muldoon ’24, Sean Vargas-Altamirano ’24, Matthew Lamour ’24, and James Mok ’24 present their senior capstone project at the University.</image-caption><hide-image/><tags><tag>News</tag><tag>news-all</tag><tag>news-blog</tag><tag>year-2024</tag></tags></item>