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<p>Penn State Center for Social Data Analytics and the Consortium on Moral Decision-Making, in collaboration with the Social Science Research Institute, has announced the recipients of their most recent seed grant awards.</p>

March 27, 2026

Social Science Research Institute awards AI seed grants

<p>Natalie Bazarova, professor of communication and associate vice provost for research at Cornell University, will present “Fostering Healthier Digital Ecosystems Through Prosocial Design and Digital Literacy Interventions” at 12:10 p.m. on April 9 in E208 Westgate Building at University Park as part of the College of Information Sciences and Technology's Distinguished Lecture Series. </p>

March 24, 2026

IST Distinguished Lecture Series to host digital communication expert on April 9

<p>Roderick Lee, associate professor in the Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology, has been named a National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource AI Education Fellow by the Computing Research Association. </p>

March 18, 2026

IST faculty member named to inaugural cohort of national AI education fellows

March 18, 2026

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

<p>The context of long-term conversations can cause an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot to begin mirroring the user’s viewpoints, possibly reducing accuracy or creating a virtual echo-chamber, according to researchers from Penn State and MIT. </p>

March 18, 2026

AI-powered chatbots can become too agreeable over time, researchers report

<p>Acclaimed science-fiction author Ted Chiang will give the Rock Ethics Institute’s 2026 Richard B. Lippin Lecture in Ethics at 6 p.m. on March 25 in Freeman Auditorium, HUB-Robeson Center, University Park. Chiang’s lecture will consider the incompatibility between generative AI (artificial intelligence) and art, a subject that he has examined extensively. The lecture is free and open to the public.</p>

March 17, 2026

Sci-fi author Ted Chiang to give 2026 Richard B. Lippin Lecture in Ethics

<p>The Penn State community is invited to watch the culmination of the 2025-26 Penn State Three Minute Thesis competition, where 10 graduate students will summarize their research and its impact while competing for monetary prizes of up to $1,000. The event will take place at 3 p.m. March 28 at the Nittany Lion Inn on the University Park campus and also will be livestreamed.</p>

March 16, 2026

Stage is set for final round of Three Minute Thesis competition on March 28

<p>Shomir Wilson, associate professor in the Penn State College of IST, received a Best Paper Award at the Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education.</p>

March 12, 2026

IST researcher earns Best Paper Award for student mentorship framework

<p>Penn State Harrisburg has joined the National Center for Women and Information Technology Higher Ed Learning Circles for Undergraduate Programs, a nationally recognized initiative that supports institutions working to expand access to and improve student success in computing.</p>

March 09, 2026

Harrisburg joins national initiative to improve student success in computing

<p>Penn State's Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence has announced the winners of Teach-a-thon, a University-wide challenge for faculty to showcase innovative teaching practices in response to the rapid rise of generative AI.  </p>

March 06, 2026

'Teach-a-thon' contest identifies best uses of artificial intelligence in teaching

<p>The College of Information Sciences and Technology has named three faculty members to lead the college's first academic departments. </p>

March 05, 2026

IST names Cai, Huang and Lee to lead college’s first academic departments

<p>Artificial intelligence-powered chatbots, which can be trained to reflect certain demographic attributes such as race or ethnicity, rely on superficial stereotypes that diminish the authentic experiences of the humans they're meant to represent, according to researchers in the College of Information Sciences and Technology.</p>

February 26, 2026

Chatbots overemphasize sociodemographic stereotypes, researchers report

<p>Students, faculty, staff and community members are invited to watch six student teams compete for cash prizes of up to $15,000 at the Invent Penn State Inc.U pitch competition on Saturday, March 21, from 1 to 3 p.m.</p>

February 23, 2026

Register to watch students pitch their startups at the Inc.U competition

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February 19, 2026

Kenneth Huang to present lecture Feb. 20 at Cornell

<p>A team of Penn State students from the College of Information Sciences and Technology and the College of Engineering’s School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science is one of 10 global finalists in the Amazon Nova AI Challenge, an annual university competition dedicated to accelerating the field of artificial intelligence.</p>

February 18, 2026

IST, engineering students competing in global Amazon Nova AI Challenge

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