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<p>A Penn State professor who studies religion, government and civil society in American communities explained in the following Q&amp;A the history, social impact and constitutional context of religion in American society and the 2026 midterm elections.</p>

October 21, 2026

Ask an Expert: Religion, politics and the 2026 midterm elections
<p>In this Q&amp;A, Penn State alumnus Joe Atkinson, global chief AI officer for the PwC Network of Firms, discussed how technology is changing the job market and what that could mean for graduates. </p>

October 20, 2026

Q&A: Alumni fellow and AI thought leader on graduating in the 'Intelligence Age'
<p>The AI and the Economy Initiative will host its fall workshop Oct. 27-28 at the Eric J. Barron Innovation Hub in State College. The program will feature external speakers from industry, policy and academia, alongside leaders of Penn State's AI transformation.</p>

October 19, 2026

AI and the Economy Initiative to host fall workshop
<p>The University Libraries’ Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT) and Penn State IT will host the hybrid event “Learning Tools for Teaching: Explore, Engage, Elevate” on Nov. 2-6 for University faculty and staff to deepen their knowledge of, experience with and strategies for engaging students using Penn State-supported educational technology tools.</p>

October 16, 2026

TLT to host ‘Learning Tools for Teaching: Explore, Engage, Elevate’ fall event
<p>A team led by researchers at Penn State have shown how AI agents, guided by human expertise, can extract and organize experimental data from scientific literature into a searchable database that helps reveal previously unreported relationships in food science. </p>

October 16, 2026

Can AI help discover new food physics? Researchers pair AI with human expertise
<p>Penn State researchers have spent more than a decade making central line placement safer for patients. Now, a $3.7 million, five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute will allow the researchers to expand their system and further reduce complications, infections and other injuries for patients receiving central lines.</p>

October 15, 2026

$3.7M NIH grant to further improve patient safety in central line placements
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October 14, 2026

Artificial intelligence grad programs webinar - Nov. 3
<p>The Penn State Forum Speaker Series 2026 lineup continues with Jeff Sundheim, artificial intelligence business strategist at Tela Strategies and a 1983 Penn State alumnus, on Monday, Nov. 16, at the Penn Stater.</p>

October 12, 2026

Penn State Forum Speaker Series hosts AI business strategist Jeff Sundheim Nov. 16
<p>Penn State has launched the new Academic Integrity Responsibilities Office to support academic integrity efforts and committees across the University. </p>

October 07, 2026

Penn State launches new office to bolster academic integrity
<p>The Nittany AI Alliance will host Cloudforce founder Husein Sharaf on Oct. 14 for an open conversation about his career path, the future of AI and the skills employers are looking for. Students from all majors can register to attend.</p>

October 07, 2026

Nittany AI Fireside Chat with CloudForce CEO Husein Sharaf
<p>The College of IST recently announced the winners of its inaugural AI in Research Symposium. The event presented an opportunity for students and faculty to explore how AI is reshaping research and discuss how standards and practices might differ across academic communities.</p>

October 06, 2026

College of IST announces winners of first 'AI in Research Symposium'
<p>Penn State Sustainability’s Intersections Film Series<em> </em>will screen “Ghost in the Machine” online at 6:30 p.m. on Oct. 21. The film takes viewers on a deep dive into AI’s past, revealing a much longer than expected history for the development of this technology. It is free and open to all, with pre-registration required.</p>

October 06, 2026

Intersections film series to screen 'Ghost in the Machine' about history of AI
<p>A team of scientists, including researchers at Penn State, is using diffusion — the same artificial intelligence technique used to generate images of weightlifting cats or cartoon versions of family photos — to build better hourly-rate prediction models to monitor flash flood risk.</p>

October 06, 2026

The techniques AI uses to create images can help predict floods, researchers say
<p>The Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence invites Penn State researchers to compete for cash prizes in "Research-a-thon," a competition celebrating innovative uses of generative AI in academic research. </p> <p> </p>

October 05, 2026

Contest invites examples of innovative use of AI in research
<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