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![West Virginia University student Kylie Wilson is using her research on health campaigns to improve the lives of individuals who suffer from mental illness.](/files/f2e2f24e-963d-4378-aa93-8c9fab0d70af/400x.webp?cb=917f3ec86d4a7b781b4fd9de1801e580)
WVU student using trip abroad to further health campaign research
West Virginia University student Kylie Wilson is using her research on health campaigns to improve the lives of individuals who suffer from mental illness.
![WVU researchers to study Fallout 76 gamers' perceptions of West Virginia](/files/c81de1d8-ea02-4deb-a995-d99677f27246/400x.webp?cb=f9c94ee6842a60fc1d72d58039a87c5c)
WVU researchers to study Fallout 76 gamers' perceptions of West Virginia
Through the coming weeks, video gamers will be blasting away mutated monsters, exploring nuked country roads and rebuilding America, a noble duty that begins in virtual West Virginia.
![Video games and interactive media like the Fallout series and Fortnite, which is currently one of the nation’s most popular games, have interested Nick Bowman, associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies and a research associate of WVU’s Interaction Lab, for years. Growing up around interactive media such as video games, Bowman has been researching how people experience and interact with video games and other virtual environments.](/files/84570d8c-1fa5-4406-8b94-02eeca6e194e/400x.webp?cb=d1f31eb55eeff170f0fe9e328764109a)
Not ‘just for kids’: WVU communication studies professor researches the interactivity of video games
WVU communication studies professor researches the interactivity of video games
![The MARIA Project, or Moral Agency in Robot-human InterActions, is funded by a three-year, $730,000 award from the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research. In that project, Banks is investigating people’s ideas about machines’ moral agency, meaning the ability to consider right and wrong and act on that consideration. This study emerged from her extensive work on player-avatar relationships in video games.](/files/f5bb451c-1e2f-4285-b425-a179c09dc5e1/400x.webp?cb=23d3e66291785d4ea21ad7da438c96d5)
Air Force funds WVU research on morality in human-robot interactions
“The mediator between the head and the hands must be the heart,” says Maria, the working class advocate-turned machine in Fritz Lang’s 1927 film, “Metropolis.”
WVU’s Phi Beta Kappa inducts 2018 class
The Eberly College of Arts and Sciences at West Virginia University is pleased to announce the induction of its 2018 class of scholars into Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honor society for the arts and sciences.
![WVU students selected for legislative internships](/files/e19f85cc-562f-414e-ac82-401e497bdfb6/400x.webp?cb=47001feb7858d918a8e0c9fc67cef336)
WVU students selected for legislative internships
Eleven students from the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences at West Virginia University have been selected to intern at the West Virginia State Legislature this semester.
![Growing up in a military family, Jaime Banks is accustomed to the transient yet structured life of military service.
After watching family members find stress relief through video games, the West Virginia University professor saw a connection to her research on communication technology and human identity.](/files/f62347d4-511e-4c26-a212-87ce8b5440f7/400x.webp?cb=ad587efc0adae78e52d04b598c689c3b)
Video games offer active military and veterans coping mechanism for stress
Growing up in a military family, Jaime Banks is accustomed to the transient yet structured life of military service.
![With motor vehicle incidents as a leading cause of on-the-job police officer deaths, communication studies students at West Virginia University put their skills to work to develop and test motor vehicle safety messages with law enforcement officers across the nation.
In partnership with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), 12 undergraduate students in Advanced Health Communication and six graduate students in Health Communication Dissemination used their coursework to promote law enforcement motor vehicle safety awareness this spring.](/files/8639efea-f9e3-4d34-8356-2c2a6cff8cd0/400x.webp?cb=0c285a61ac2b7b566c2b4da1e66abc89)
Communication studies students promote law enforcement motor vehicle safety
With motor vehicle incidents as a leading cause of on-the-job police officer deaths, communication studies students at West Virginia University put their skills to work to develop and test motor vehicle safety messages with law enforcement officers across the nation.
Making health care more human
WVU launches medical humanities and health studies minor
Libraries and Honors College name two Munn Scholars
West Virginia University Libraries and the Honors College selected Hayley Harman and Janelle Vickers as 2017 Robert F. Munn Undergraduate Library Scholars.