Artificial Intelligence: Highlights

Overview

We highlight the work of colleagues across Morehouse College who are finding practical, meaningful ways to use emerging tools in their teaching, research, and daily work. Each project reflects a thoughtful approach to improving how we learn, work, and serve our community. Together, they represent the creativity, care, and purpose that define the Morehouse experience. 

	Morehouse has received a prestigious grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to participate in a $457 million project to build one of the most powerful academic supercomputers in the southeast. This historic investment in higher education cyberinfrastructure will elevate Morehouse’s ability to provide unprecedented access to world-class computational resources for its students, faculty, and HBCUs nationwide. The Morehouse Center for Broadening Participation in Computing, led by Executive Director Dr. Kinnis Gosha, has received $5 million of the NSF grant to start construction on a site that will house the cutting-edge supercomputer, Horizon, part of the NSF’s Leadership-Class Computing Facility (LCCF). The supercomputer will push the boundaries of artificial intelligence, providing greater access to areas such as climate modeling, machine learning, and biomedical research. For more information contact the Morehouse Center for Broadening Participation In Computing contact us section link https://morehouse.edu/academics/centers-and-institutes/cbpc/
On behalf of Amazon Web Services (AWS)-Machine Learning University, two Morehouse College faculty completed all requirements to receive micro-credential from AWS-Machine Learning University (MLU). Dr. Sonya Dennis and Professor Yvonne Phillips-Taylor were acknowledged at the award ceremony during the AWS-MLU Spring Teaching and Research Symposium at Tuskegee University on February 27, 2026.
	Dr. Renee Jordan, Associate Director for Operations, Finances, and Compliance, has received a seed grant to develop and pilot humanities-centered AI faculty workshops. These workshops aim to equip faculty with practical, ethical, and creative strategies for supporting rich, rigorous and inclusive learning through AI.
Because of her visionary leadership and commitment to transforming the educational landscape, Dr. Juana Mendenhall has been selected to the 2026 Google & GSV Higher Ed Leader Fellowship cohort. Her selection was due to her serving as an architect of instructional transformation with her demonstrating her leadership at the intersection of academic excellence, institutional strategy, and technology. Over the next year, she will join a global community of elite international peers grounded in mastery of Google’s most transformative technologies providing the technical resources and global network to enhance Morehouse College’s strategic emerging technology fluency in this rapid emerging technology landscape.