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<p>A panel of industry experts and Penn State faculty awarded a total of $29,000 to student teams at the Nittany AI Challenge Celebration. The winning teams will use their prize money to further develop projects that apply artificial intelligence to address real-world challenges and benefit society.</p>

April 17, 2026

Student teams win cash awards for their AI solutions in the Nittany AI Challenge

<p>An inclusive prompt coaching tool for AI text-to-image generators developed by a team led by Penn State researchers raised user awareness of bias in AI systems and helped users better prompt generative AI tools to produce more inclusive content.</p>

April 16, 2026

Prompt coaching tool raises user awareness of bias in generative AI systems

<p>The College of Information Sciences has announced the winners of the 2026 David and Kathy Hozza Learning Assistant Award.</p>

April 15, 2026

IST announces winners of David and Kathy Hozza Learning Assistant Award

<p>The Communication, Science & Society Initiative, a research partnership between Penn State’s Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences and the Department of Communication Arts and Sciences in the College of the Liberal Arts, has announced the grant recipients from its 2025 request for proposals.</p>

April 13, 2026

Communication, Science & Society Initiative awards four interdisciplinary grants

<p>Through the College of IST, Penn State has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Indian AI Research Organisation to expand global collaboration in artificial intelligence. The partnership will support joint research, faculty and student exchanges and training of early-career scientists, reinforcing the University's land-grant mission in the era of AI.</p>

April 10, 2026

Penn State signs MOU with Indian AI Research Organization

<p>Thirty-one Penn State graduate students earned awards at the 2026 Graduate Exhibition — the premier annual community showcase for graduate student research, scholarship and creative activity across the University — hosted by the J. Jeffrey and Ann Marie Fox Graduate School on Friday, March 27, on the University Park campus.</p>

April 09, 2026

Thirty-one graduate students receive awards at the 2026 Graduate Exhibition

<p>Tiffany Veinot, professor at the University of Michigan School of Information, will present “Advancing Upstream Health Informatics Interventions to Promote Health and Healthcare Equity” at 12:10 p.m. on April 20 in E208 Westgate Building at University Park as part of the College of IST Distinguished Lecture Series. </p>

April 06, 2026

IST Distinguished Lecture Series to host health informatics expert on April 20

<p>Experts from across the nation will gather to foster cross-disciplinary idea exchange and spark new collaborations in an April 13-14 workshop on artificial intelligence's transformative impact on the economy and society. Registration is required for this free workshop — the first in a new “AI and the Economy Initiative" — which is open to the Penn State community.</p>

April 02, 2026

Workshop to discuss AI’s transformative impact on the economy, society

<p>In this Q&A, Jae Wan Ahn, Penn State’s first Pennsylvania Legislative Science and Technology Policy Fellow, discussed his contributions to a recent Pennsylvania Joint State Government Commission report on the evolution of artificial intelligence and the related applications, policy recommendations and regulatory considerations across key sectors.</p>

March 31, 2026

Q&A: How will policy shape the future of AI in Pennsylvania?

<p>Students from the Nittany AI Alliance's Advance program are using artificial intelligence to design solutions that help the Office of Physical Plant work more efficiently and enhance how it serves customers. </p>

March 30, 2026

Nittany AI students designing AI solutions to improve Physical Plant processes

<p>Four undergraduate student teams received awards for their digital business ideas in the 2026 Bardusch Family IdeaMakers Challenge.</p>

March 30, 2026

App to prevent misuse of personal imagery wins top prize in IdeaMakers Challenge

<p>As a kickoff to Penn State Startup Week, six student teams pitched their startups to a panel of judges, competing for prizes totaling $35,500 in funding in the 2026 Invent Penn State Inc.U Competition. SlammedU, a startup founded by Smeal College of Business student Niklas Restrepo, won first place and $15,000.</p>

March 30, 2026

Student startups win funding in Invent Penn State Inc.U Competition

<p>Volunteers from Penn State Abington, Beaver, Berks, Fayette, New Kensington and University Park spent spring break volunteering at food pantries in Pittsburgh and the Greater Philadelphia Region.</p>

March 27, 2026

Student, staff volunteers spend spring break serving Pennsylvania communities

<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

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