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December 19, 2025

IST researchers well-represented at international AI conference

<p>The College of Information Sciences and Technology presented awards to faculty and staff at its annual holiday celebration, held Dec. 17 at the Hintz Family Alumni Center.</p>

December 18, 2025

IST recognizes faculty and staff at annual awards ceremony

<p>Fred Aebli, lecturer of information science and technology at Penn State Scranton, offers some helpful tips to help avoid scams and fraud this holiday season when shopping online.</p>

December 17, 2025

Is holiday shopping online safe?

<p>A growing area of instruction and programming in educational library services, privacy literacy emphasizes making informed choices about managing one’s personal information and understanding its role in the information ecosystem. Earlier this year, three Penn State faculty convened a national initiative called Libraries Stand for Privacy and now are seeking feedback on its resulting educational resources.</p>

December 15, 2025

Faculty team’s new resources for U.S. privacy education aim to protect consumers

<p>The Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences' Mid-Scale Seed Grant Program has awarded eight teams of Penn State researchers for projects that will contribute to one or more of the institute's research hubs or affiliated centers.</p>

December 12, 2025

Institute for Computational and Data Sciences funds eight mid-scale seed grants

<p>The College of Information Sciences and Technology has named Emily Bogle as its fall 2025 student marshal. Bogle majored in security and risk analysis, intelligence analysis and modeling focus, and minored in information sciences and technology.</p>

December 03, 2025

College of IST names student marshal for fall 2025 commencement

<p>Penn State alumnus Sean Stanton, class of 2009, has made a commitment to establish the Eleanor M. Stanton and Patricia C. Edrington Legacy Scholarship/Igwé Family Matching Scholarship in the College of Information Sciences and Technology. The gift is in honor of the service legacy of his mother and grandmother. </p>

December 03, 2025

Alumnus honors his mother and grandmother through endowed IST scholarship

<p>In the latest episode of "Growing Impact," a research team at Penn State is exploring how people in the Northeast receive, interpret and trust air-quality alerts to identify ways to make smoke-related warnings clearer and more effective.</p>

December 02, 2025

‘Growing Impact’: Strengthening public response to air-quality warnings

<p>Ninghui Li, professor of computer science at Purdue University, will discuss membership inference attacks on machine learning models as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series hosted by the College of Information Sciences and Technology. The talk will take place at noon on Dec. 3 in E208 Westgate Building. </p>

November 21, 2025

IST Distinguished Lecture Series to host security and privacy expert on Dec. 3

<p>The Penn State Chapter of the Order of the Sword & Shield National Honor Society inducted 21 students from the College of Information Sciences and Technology during a ceremony held Nov. 19 at the Marriott Foundation Building.</p>

November 21, 2025

IST announces inductees to the Sword & Shield honor society

<p>The Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences has awarded 20 fellowships to University faculty through its Faculty Upskilling Fellowships in artificial intelligence or quantum sciences. Selected faculty are spread across eight colleges, 17 departments and three Penn State campuses: University Park, Beaver and Hershey.</p>

November 20, 2025

Institute funds 20 faculty fellows in AI and quantum sciences

November 20, 2025

IST associate teaching professor to present McMurtry Lecture on Dec. 11

<p>The Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence invites faculty to compete for cash prizes in "Teach-a-thon," an event celebrating innovative teaching practices in response to AI technologies.</p>

November 20, 2025

Contest puts AI-ready teaching to the test

November 17, 2025

Penn State students can now apply to IBM co-op program for 2026 positions

<p>Diane Akpovwa, a fourth-year student majoring in human-centered design and development in the Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology, introduced the Virtual Reality Immersive Experience at the Palmer Museum of Art as part of the 2025 Centre Film Festival. <br>
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November 14, 2025

IST student hosts film festival’s first virtual-reality immersive experience

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