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<p>Penn State Dickinson Law's Center for Excellence in Energy and Environmental Law is hosting "AI Data Centers: A Problem-Solving Approach," an interdisciplinary symposium of engineers, architects, scientists, educators, activists, citizens and civic leaders in conversation on AI and data centers. The symposium will take place 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 5, in the Greg Sutliff Auditorium of the Lewis Katz Building.</p>

October 02, 2026

Penn State Dickinson Law to host interdisciplinary symposium on AI data centers
<p>Marketers are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence tools to create content and improve the efficiency of their workflows. In this Q&amp;A, Wreetabrata "Wreeto" Kar, assistant professor of marketing at Penn State’s Smeal College of Business, discussed a new framework to effectively deploy AI-generated marketing content at scale and how human capital is vital to the successful use of these new technologies. </p>

October 01, 2026

Q&A: How can marketers use AI effectively — without losing human judgment?
<p>Penn State faculty can now apply to two grant programs from the AI Center of Excellence for Teaching and Learning, both funded through the Office of the Provost and designed to support the integration of artificial intelligence into teaching and learning in alignment with Penn State’s AI Transformation Initiative. </p>

September 30, 2026

New AI grants to support instructional innovation at Penn State
<p>The Nittany AI Alliance invites undergraduate and graduate students from all disciplines to the workshops, ideation sessions, AI conversations and skill-building events offered throughout October. No technical background or experience is required.</p>

September 30, 2026

Nittany AI Alliance announces October workshops and events
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September 28, 2026

Great Valley an essential partner in online AI education at Penn State
<p>Teaching and Learning with Technology, part of Penn State University Libraries, is inviting faculty to <a href="https://symposium.tlt.psu.edu/rfp-2-2/rfp/">submit proposals</a> for the 2027 <a href="https://symposium.tlt.psu.edu/">TLT Symposium</a>. The in-person symposium will take place Friday, April 2, and Saturday, April 3, at Brass 16823 in Bellefonte, Pa., with live virtual programming on Thursday, April 8.</p>

September 28, 2026

Penn State faculty invited to submit proposals for 2027 TLT Symposium
<p>The Penn State Impact Forum brought together leaders from higher education, industry, government and communities to build relationships and explore shared challenges and opportunities. Through cross-sector conversations, partnerships and student engagement, the forum demonstrated how Penn State’s convening power can help turn connections into meaningful impact.</p>

September 23, 2026

Impact Forum shows how Penn State connects ideas, people and opportunity
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September 22, 2026

World Campus launches new AI credentials, literacy resources for online learners
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September 21, 2026

Lecture to explore AI’s use in delivering trees to farmers across rural India
<p>The ICDS/Huck AI Symposium, hosted by the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences and the Institute for Computational and Data Sciences on Oct. 15, will bring together researchers from across Penn State and beyond to explore how artificial intelligence is transforming the life sciences. </p>

September 17, 2026

Oct. 15 symposium to explore AI's role in life sciences research
<p>Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT), part of Penn State University Libraries, has named 21 recipients of the 2026 Faculty Engagement Awards with this year’s theme, “Teaching with AI Glasses: Augmented Reality for Real-Time Learning.”</p>

September 17, 2026

2026 Faculty Engagement Award recipients to explore AI-enabled smart glasses
<p>Teaching and Learning with Technology, part of University Libraries, has launched the AI Commons, a new service that helps Penn State faculty, staff and students explore generative artificial intelligence.</p>

September 16, 2026

TLT launches AI Commons to support AI exploration and applied learning
<p>The Digital Twins Hub at Penn State has launched the Digital Twin Literacy Center, a centralized space for students at Penn State to learn about and engage directly with digital twin models — virtual representations of real-life systems — and other immersive technologies. The hub is housed under the Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences and the Cozoziello Institute for Real Estate Innovation.</p>

September 14, 2026

Digital Twins Literacy Center to engage students in immersive technologies
<p>A Penn State Harrisburg student was selected to participate in AI4ALL Ignite, a national, no-cost program that helps students build AI skills by pairing cross-institutional student teams with industry mentors for hands-on projects, mentorship and discussions about the broader social impact of AI.</p>

September 14, 2026

Penn State Harrisburg student participates in national AI program
<p>The more conversational an AI chatbot is, the more likely users will trust it — even when it shares misinformation, according to a new study by Penn State researchers. </p>

September 14, 2026

Chatty chatbots can mislead users, but verification tools help, researchers find
<p>The Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education has announced its funded projects for the 2026-27 academic year. The projects, submitted by College of Engineering faculty, are intended to promote enhancements to undergraduate and graduate education in the College of Engineering. </p>

September 14, 2026

Leonhard Center announces 11 funded projects for 2026-27 
<p>Researchers in the College of Information Sciences and Technology found that AI models approach high-stakes ethical decisions differently than humans do and show little of the uncertainty people may express when faced with difficult choices.</p>

September 14, 2026

Who gets the kidney? AI chatbots do not make the same moral choices humans do
<p>The annual Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences Symposium event will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 14, from 8:45 a.m. to 5:20 p.m. in Alumni Hall in HUB-Robeson Center at University Park. Registration is required by Oct. 4.</p>

September 11, 2026

ICDS Symposium scheduled for Oct. 14
<p>Penn State’s Teaching and Learning with Technology Dreamery Speaker Series will host guest speaker Mitch Colver, associate provost and vice president at American Public University System, on Oct. 12- 13. He will lead three sessions focused on cultivating human potential in an artificial-intelligence-driven world.</p>

September 09, 2026

Dreamery Speaker Series sessions focus on thinking, learning in the age of AI
Khushi Khurana, a high school student who creates and leads coding camps in the Philadelphia area, collaborated with Priya Kumar, PNC Technologies Career Development Professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology, to explore a youth-led STEM learning model that puts children’s voices at the center of the learning experience.

September 09, 2026

Peer-led computing camps engage children, study finds
<p>A new tool in Canvas lets Penn State faculty quickly set clear AI expectations for their students by adding small icons that show whether generative AI use is allowed, limited, or not permitted.</p>

September 08, 2026

Penn State launches tool to help faculty set clear AI expectations with students
<p>Scott Milner, William H. Joyce Chair Professor of Chemical Engineering, has been writing and publishing across careers in both industry and academia for decades. In his new book, “Writing and Presenting for Scientists and Engineers,” publishing later this year through MIT Press, Milner provided insights into methods for writing about scientific research in a more compelling way. </p>

September 02, 2026

Q&A: Scott Milner on 'Writing and Presenting for Scientists and Engineers'
<p>Penn State’s Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence invites short proposals for its annual seed funding program. Applications will be accepted through Nov. 2, with projects expected to start in spring 2027 and last up to two years.</p>

September 01, 2026

Center for Socially Responsible AI invites 2027 seed funding proposals
<p>The AI Center of Excellence in Teaching and Learning has awarded 46 grants to Penn State faculty and faculty teams through the inaugural cycle of two instructional innovation grant programs supporting the thoughtful integration of generative artificial intelligence into teaching and learning.</p>

August 28, 2026

AI Center of Excellence awards first instructional innovation grant recipients