News & Highlights

2026 WSSU AI Summit

Please register and participate in the inaugural WSSU AI Summit on March 25, 2026

Internal News and Highlights

• Upcoming CITI GenAI workshops seminars
• WSSU Earns Spot in AAC&U’s Institute on AI for Student Success, July 2025
• WSSU, first HBCU Adobe Cloud campus, hosts AI-focused festival with faculty, June 2025
• WSSU receives grant to teach students how to use artificial intelligence responsibly and ethically, February 2024
• NASA awards $1.3M to WSSU and two other NC HBCUs for data science and AI research, September 2023

External News and Highlights

• President’s Executive Order on “Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence”, December 2025
• Governor Stein Announces Executive Order on AI, September 2025

AI Research Highlights

• Khalili H., Deb D., White-Walker W., Walker T., Johnson, D. (2026). From Vision to Action: Leading Ethical and Impactful AI Innovation at Winston-Salem State University — an HBCU Institution, accepted for Oral Presentation, AAC&U 2026 Conference on Learning and Student Success (CLASS), Arizona
• Debzani Deb, Greg Taylor, Scott Betz, Bao Anh T. Maddux, C. Edward Ebert, Flourice W. Richardson, Jeanine Lino S. Couto, Michael S. Jarrett, and Zagros Madjd-Sadjadi. 2025. Enhancing University Curricula with Integrated AI Ethics Education: A Comprehensive Approach. In Proceedings of the 56th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 1 (SIGCSETS 2025). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 248–254. https://doi.org/10.1145/3641554.3701953