Are you curious about how AI can support your teaching, research, writing, and future professional practices? Join us for the second annual AI Summit on Tuesday, April 8, 2025!
This expanded, full-day event is open to all members of the Ä¢¹½tv community and will explore the evolving role of AI.
The Summit features three specialized tracks:
- AI Exploration Track – Hands-on sessions for understanding and engaging with AI technologies. This track is specifically geared toward all students and those faculty and staff who want to learn and grow their AI skills. This track was developed in response to Ä¢¹½tv’s Visioning Day.
- AI Teaching Track – Discussions on integrating AI into pedagogy, student perceptions of AI, and ethical considerations. This track is geared towards current faculty, pre-service teachers, and graduate students.
- AI Research and Scholarship Track – Sessions on AI-driven research tools, methodologies, and scholarly publishing. Geared towards faculty and students with an interest in researching AI and leveraging AI tools in their research, scholarship, and creative activity.
Workshops and Presentations
8:30 a.m.–9:00 a.m.
Breakfast and open conversation sponsored by the Ä¢¹½tv Libraries.
Stabley 2nd Floor
Open to all attendees.
9:00 a.m.–9:50 a.m.
Artificial Intelligence 101: What is AI and How is it Used? A Hands-on Introduction
With Ragia Hamdy Mohamed Hassan, Madeleine Rosa and Ammar Mahmoud
Track and Location: AI Exploration Track - Stabley 210 and Online
This interactive workshop introduces the fundamentals of AI, exploring its capabilities, limitations, and real-world applications in education and beyond. Designed for students, faculty, and staff new to AI, participants will engage in hands-on activities to demystify key concepts and experiment with AI tools. By the end, attendees will have a foundational understanding of AI’s impact and potential uses in their academic and professional lives.
AI in the Classroom: Usage, Perceptions, and Transparency Among Ä¢¹½tv Students
With Matthew Vetter
Track and Location: AI Pedagogy Track, Stabley 201 and Online
This presentation examines the realities of generative AI use among Ä¢¹½tv undergraduate students. Drawing on survey data collected from over 300 students across majors at Ä¢¹½tv, Vetter will discuss how students engage with AI tools for academic work, their perceptions of its impact on learning, and their comfort levels in disclosing AI usage to instructors. While a majority of students use AI, many choose not to disclose it due to concerns about academic penalties or perceived stigma. This session provides insights into student attitudes and practices, offering a data-driven perspective on AI’s role in learning at Ä¢¹½tv, and concludes with suggestions for promoting transparency and dialogue about generative AI use for academic work.
10:00 a.m.–10:50 a.m.
AI for Educators: Enhancing Lesson Planning, Assessment, and Instruction
With Jaqueline McGinty
Track and Location: AI Exploration Track - Stabley 210 and Online
Have you considered using AI tools in your lesson planning and teaching practice but were unsure where to begin? This session will explore how educators can safely and effectively utilize AI tools to design instructional activities, assessments, rubrics, and learning materials. Together, we will practice navigating the myriads of available AI tools, identify resources specifically for educational use, and discuss how to ethically leverage AI to help us create meaningful and impactful learning experiences.
What do we teach, and what do we offload to AI?
With Christian Pederson
Track and Location: AI Pedagogy Track, Stabley 201 and Online
In his book Deep Utopia, Nick Bostrom considers the hypothetical scenario in which we are wildly successful in our development of AI, creating AI capable of doing everything that needs to be done (an AI-driven utopia), and he explores the implications of this scenario for our ability to live good lives. The basis of the potential problem is that having a sense of purpose and meaning in our lives is a vital part of living a good life, but this sense of purpose and meaning would be imperiled if AI performed all the tasks that are often associated with purpose and meaning in our lives currently. We are still a long way from this scenario now, but we are at a point in the development of AI where it is possible to offload a fair amount of our intellectual activity to AI. AI can not only handle mundane tasks like writing memos and emails, giving summaries of articles, or writing simple computer programs, but it can also create pictures, music, poetry, and literature. Narrowing this down to the context of the university, in this talk, he will consider where and how we might want to draw a line between academic intellectual activity that can be offloaded to AI and that which cannot.
AI-Driven Research Tools in the Library
With Chris Clouser
Track and Location: AI Research and Scholarship Track, Stabley 202 and Online
AI is powering new research support tools and enhanced search engines focused on scholarly research. This workshop, designed for interested researchers, students, and scholars, presents a high-level view of AI research tools, including AI features appearing in our library databases and one specialized tool available through the Ä¢¹½tv Libraries: Keenious.
11:00 a.m.–11:50 a.m.
Artificial Intelligence 202: AI Prompt Engineering
With Rachel Cofield, Amiranda Adams, and Crystal Conzo
Track and Location: AI Exploration Track - Stabley 210 and Online
Effective AI use begins with crafting clear, strategic prompts. This hands-on workshop guides participants through the principles of prompt engineering, teaching techniques to optimize AI responses for different tasks, including writing, research, and creative projects. Attendees will experiment with real-time prompts, refine their approaches, and leave with practical strategies for maximizing AI’s usefulness in their work.
AI and Academic Integrity Panel: Supporting Students and Instructors in Questionable Situations
With Catherine Dugan, Bryna Siegel-Finer, and Holly Olexo
Track and Location: AI Pedagogy Track, Stabley 201 and Online
This panel explores the complexities of artificial intelligence and academic integrity, offering guidance for faculty when facing uncertain or ethically ambiguous situations. Our panelists will discuss Ä¢¹½tv’s policies, strategies for maintaining integrity, navigating policy gray areas, and fostering a culture of responsible AI use at Ä¢¹½tv. We will ensure time for faculty who have questions about AI and academic integrity.
Researching AI in Your Discipline: Opportunities, Challenges, and Methods
Track and Location: AI Research and Scholarship Track, Stabley 202 and Online
With Mahmoud Othman and Islam Farag
Curious about researching AI in your field? This interactive brainstorming session will help students and faculty explore research opportunities, challenges, and methodologies for studying AI within their disciplines. Participants will generate ideas, discuss potential projects, and consider effective research approaches. Whether you’re just starting or refining an AI-focused study, this session will provide practical insights to shape your research direction. Attendees will leave with concrete ideas, possible research directions, and a clearer understanding of how to position their work within the evolving AI research landscape.
12:00 p.m.–1:15 p.m.
Open Luncheon sponsored by the Office of the Provost
North Dining Hall Tower Room
(50-person limit, RSVP required. RSVP link will be sent out in late March)
1:30 p.m.–2:20 p.m.
Your Personal AI Tutor: Writing Center Tutors Offer One-on-one AI Exploration and Support
With the Jones White Writing Center
Track and Location: AI Exploration Track - Stabley 210 and Online
Have questions about AI and writing? Drop in for a one-on-one conversation with Writing Center tutors to explore AI tools, ask questions, and experiment with simple AI-assisted tasks. Whether you’re curious about AI’s role in academic writing, want to test different systems, or need guidance on ethical AI use, Writing Center tutors can provide guidance.
The AI-Enhanced Classroom: Smarter Teaching, Deeper Learning
With Veronica Paz
Track and Location: AI Pedagogy Track, Stabley 201 and Online
This interactive session will explore practical ways to integrate AI tools into teaching, from streamlining course design to fostering critical thinking and engagement. We’ll discuss best practices and real-world applications that empower educators to enhance learning outcomes without losing the human touch. Whether you’re AI-curious or already experimenting, this workshop will provide insights and strategies to make AI work for you and your students.
AI for Research and Scholarly Writing: Tools, Ethics, and Best Practices
With Tyler Nuñez, Center for Scholarly Communication
Track and Location: AI Research and Scholarship Track, Stabley 202 and Online
AI is rapidly transforming the way researchers approach academic writing, offering tools that assist with brainstorming, drafting, editing, and refining scholarly work. This session provides an in-depth look at AI’s affordances and limitations for research writing, covering popular programs, their unique strengths, and potential pitfalls. Participants will explore how AI can support the writing process while maintaining academic integrity, with a focus on ethical considerations such as authorship, bias, and responsible usage. Through demonstrations and discussions, graduate researchers and faculty will gain insights into best practices for integrating AI into their workflows without compromising scholarly rigor.
2:30 p.m.–3:20 p.m.
AI Tools for Creative Production
With Erick Lauber
Track and Location: AI Exploration Track - Stabley 210 and Online
Discover free, exciting tools you can use to become a content creator in your spare time. Video, photo/art, writing, sound… are all much easier to produce today with AI tools.
The Next Generation of STEM Education in the Era of AI
With Hao Tang
Track and Location: AI Pedagogy Track, Stabley 201 and Online
As AI transforms the way we learn and work, what does the future hold for STEM education? Join us for a critical discussion on how AI is reshaping the STEM landscape while ensuring that human ingenuity remains at its core. We will explore pressing questions about AI’s role in the classroom and beyond, including controversies surrounding AI-generated writing and detection tools, AI-assisted problem-solving, the ethical issues and risks of large language models, and the limitations of AI.
Scholarly Publishing and Data Analysis in the Age of AI: A Hands-On Workshop
With Dana Driscoll
Track and Location: AI Research and Scholarship Track, Stabley 202 and Online
As AI tools become more prevalent in academic research and writing, scholars and faculty mentors must navigate evolving journal policies, ethical guidelines, and the practical limits of AI-assisted publishing. This hands-on workshop examines how AI is reshaping scholarly publishing, providing participants with opportunities to analyze current journal policies, evaluate AI-generated content, explore AI data analysis tools, and explore the boundaries of what AI can and cannot do in academic research. Through interactive exercises and discussions, attendees will critically assess AI’s role in peer review, data analysis, manuscript preparation, and scholarly communication, leaving with concrete strategies for guiding graduate students and early-career scholars in responsible AI use in writing for publication, dissertation and thesis writing, and other scholarly activity.