Dr. Muhsinah L. Morris
Project Manager, Morehouse in the Metaverse,
VR Enthusiast, Innovator, Educator, Speaker, Autism Advocate, Author, Wife, Mom
Bio:
Muhsinah L. Holmes Morris, Ph.D is the Interim Department Chair and Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA. She is an alumna of Clark Atlanta University (B.S.) and Emory University (M.S. & PhD).
Her research interests center around inclusion in STEM for the neurodiverse. She is the PI and Project Manager of the VR Project, “Morehouse in the Metaverse”.
Dr. Morris is Morehouse College’s 2021 Winner of the Vulcan Teaching Award of Excellence. She launched her Advanced Inorganic Chemistry course in Virtual Reality in the Spring of 2021.
She is a pioneer in this space as the chemistry content in VR is limited. Wife to a gamer named Chris and mom to 5 sons, Anthony, Matthew, Christopher, Seth and Cameron.
She believes that VR provides a pathway for creating inclusion in society for the neurodivergent through immersive educational experiences that more specifically target vocational rehabilitation goals.
