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<p>Penn State Great Valley&nbsp;will offer a master of business administration in artificial intelligence beginning in fall 2026. This 33-credit interdisciplinary program is designed to meet the growing need for business leaders who are proficient in both AI and management.</p>

May 29, 2026

Great Valley launches MBA in artificial intelligence
<p>Hadi Hosseini, associate professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology,&nbsp;will lead&nbsp;the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, a global organization focused on how intelligent software systems operate and interact.&nbsp;</p>

May 29, 2026

IST researcher elected president of global intelligent systems foundation
<p>Large language models respond to everyday health queries with nearly 76% accuracy, raising concerns about their trustworthiness in real-world applications, according to a new study by Penn State researchers.</p>

May 28, 2026

Calling Doctor GPT: AI responses to healthcare queries are nearly 76% accurate
<p>Greg Eghigian, professor of history and bioethics at Penn State, unpacked the release of the Pentagon's new UFO files in the age of drones and artificial intelligence.&nbsp;</p>

May 28, 2026

Q&A: The Pentagon’s new UFO files in the age of drones and AI
<p>A new study, co-authored by a Penn State Smeal College of Business professor, demonstrated that AI can mass-produce academic papers that look nearly indistinguishable from human-authored research, raising concerns about the potential impact on the academic community.</p>

May 28, 2026

AI can mass-produce finance research papers indistinguishable from human work

May 26, 2026

WATCH: Advancing biorobotics by studying the natural world
<p>As Pennsylvania College of Technology prepares to offer minors in artificial intelligence (AI) this fall, faculty across campus incorporated the technology in courses throughout the 2025-26 academic year, reflecting AI’s expanding role in the workforce.</p>

May 20, 2026

Penn College faculty incorporate creative use of artificial intelligence in classes
<p>The Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences, in collaboration with five other institutions in Pennsylvania, received a two-year, $1.3 million U.S. National Science Foundation Campus Cyberinfrastructure (NSF CC*) award to build upon prior efforts to expand the foundation for a statewide network that transforms science-driven research and education at under-resourced or non-research institutions of higher education.</p>

May 20, 2026

$1.3M NSF grant to expand statewide cyberinfrastructure for researchers
<p>Penn State Harrisburg will offer a new&nbsp;bachelor of science&nbsp;degree in&nbsp;<a href="https://harrisburg.psu.edu/business-administration/artificial-intelligence-methods-applications-bs">artificial intelligence methods and applications</a>&nbsp;(AIMA) beginning in fall 2026. The&nbsp;program&nbsp;is&nbsp;designed to equip students with the essential technical&nbsp;expertise, hands-on experience,&nbsp;and ethical grounding to lead in an AI-driven world.&nbsp;</p>

May 14, 2026

Penn State Harrisburg adds AI methods and applications degree for fall 2026
<p>In a recent op-ed, Executive Vice President and Provost Fotis Sotiropoulos shares his thoughts about the impact of AI on doctoral education and how those changes could shape Penn State’s land-grant mission.</p>

May 14, 2026

Leadership insights: Provost Sotiropoulos on AI, doctoral education and the land-grand mission
<p>In a recent op-ed, Executive Vice President and Provost Fotis Sotiropoulos shares his thoughts about the impact of AI on doctoral education and how those changes could shape Penn State’s land-grant mission.</p>

May 14, 2026

Leadership insights: Provost Sotiropoulos on AI, doctoral education and the land-grant mission
<p>Dongwon&nbsp;Lee, professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology, earned a fellowship to conduct&nbsp;misinformation&nbsp;research&nbsp;at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies in Germany this summer.&nbsp;He will study&nbsp;ways&nbsp;to better understand misinformation on a global scale&nbsp;and explore&nbsp;the use of AI to make&nbsp;it faster and easier to spot false information online.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

May 12, 2026

IST faculty member awarded fellowship to study claim-making and fact-checking

May 11, 2026

AI Center of Excellence launches instructional innovation grant programs
<p>Penn State Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT) and Penn State IT will host the "Learning Tools for Teaching: Engage, Explore, Elevate Summer" series, a virtual professional development opportunity designed to help faculty and staff explore educational technologies that enhance teaching and learning.</p>

May 05, 2026

TLT to host 'Learning Tools for Teaching: Engage, Explore, Elevate Summer' series
Vasant Honavar, who currently serves as the Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Biomedical Data Sciences and Artificial Intelligence, will guide a comprehensive AI strategy and advance Penn State's leadership in human-centered and ethical AI innovation across teaching, learning, research and operations.

May 05, 2026

Vasant Honavar named vice provost for artificial intelligence at Penn State
<p>Five Penn State instructors from three campuses worked in teams with Penn State's Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT) over the past two years as part of the 2024-26 TLT Faculty Fellows program. Their goal was to enrich the student engagement experience through technology, addressing themes such as&nbsp;generative AI, student connection and belonging, and digital fluency.</p>

April 30, 2026

2024-26 Teaching and Learning with Technology Faculty Fellows recap projects
<p>Tanya Berger-Wolf, professor of computer science engineering; of electrical and computer engineering; and of evolution, ecology and organismal biology at Ohio State University, gave a lecture titled&nbsp;“AI for Nature: From Science to Action" as part of the&nbsp;Distinguished Lectures in Life Sciences series presented by the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences.</p>

April 29, 2026

Heard on Campus: Tanya Berger-Wolf on AI for nature
<p>A case competition held in conjunction with the second annual Dan and Robyn Ives AI Innovation Day at Penn State’s Smeal College of Business highlighted a significant shift in how students are engaging with artificial intelligence, moving beyond ideas to building real, working solutions.</p>

April 28, 2026

Penn State Smeal AI case competition shows leap from ideas to working prototypes
<p>Penn State’s Advanced Vehicle Team has been accepted into the U.S. Department of Energy and Argonne National Laboratory’s four-year EcoCAR Innovation Challenge, which tasks university students with designing and building intelligent mobility solutions and innovative products using emerging technologies.</p>

April 28, 2026

Penn State Advanced Vehicle Team accepted into EcoCAR Innovation Challenge
<p>Biodiversity mushroomed nearly 540 million years ago in what is known a the Cambrian explosion. Now, robotics are on the brink of their own Cambrian explosion, facilitated by Penn State researchers.&nbsp;</p>

April 24, 2026

The robot Cambrian explosion: Penn State researchers advance biorobotics
<p>AI Studio, an new enterprise generative AI platform, will provide faculty and staff with access to models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google in a single interface.</p>

April 23, 2026

Penn State launches AI Studio for faculty and staff
<p>The new course will equip Penn State faculty and staff with the&nbsp;basic&nbsp;knowledge, skills and ethical grounding needed to use AI responsibly and effectively in academic and professional contexts.&nbsp;</p>

April 23, 2026

Penn State launches new online ‘AI Essentials’ literacy course for employees
<p>As Penn State continues to elevate artificial intelligence (AI) as a University-wide priority, Penn State Harrisburg is emerging as a regional hub for&nbsp;applied and ethical&nbsp;AI education, research and innovation. &nbsp;</p>

April 22, 2026

Penn State Harrisburg advances regional artificial intelligence leadership
<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