UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., May 5 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news release:

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - Penn State has selected Vasant Honavar as the inaugural vice provost for artificial intelligence (AI) to guide a comprehensive AI strategy and advance the University's leadership in human-centered and ethical AI innovation across teaching, learning, research and operations.

Honavar, who currently serves as the Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Biomedical Data Sciences and Artificial Intelligence in the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences and a professor in the Department of Informatics and Intelligent Systems in the College of Information Sciences and Technology, will begin his appointment on June 1.

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