{"id":190410,"date":"2026-02-25T03:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T08:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/faculty-chosen-for-caas-ai-technologies-champion-network-inaugural-award\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T04:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T09:10:12","slug":"faculty-chosen-for-caas-ai-technologies-champion-network-inaugural-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/faculty-chosen-for-caas-ai-technologies-champion-network-inaugural-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty Chosen for CAA\u2019s AI Technologies Champion Network, Inaugural Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncat.edu\/news\/2026\/02\/faculty-caa-ai-technologies.php\">Faculty Chosen for CAA\u2019s AI Technologies Champion Network, Inaugural Award<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncat.edu\/news\/2026\/02\/faculty-caa-ai-technologies.php\">https:\/\/www.ncat.edu\/news\/2026\/02\/faculty-caa-ai-technologies.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-25 03:47:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.ncat.edu\">www.ncat.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Two faculty members from N.C. A&amp;T, Chyi-lyi &#8220;Kathleen&#8221; Liang and Yimesker Yihun, have been selected for the CAA Academic Alliance&#8217;s AI Technologies Champion Network.<\/li>\n<li>Yimesker Yihun received the inaugural AI Technologies Network Award for his significant contributions to AI research and education, specifically in human-centered AI across different fields.<\/li>\n<li>Both members represent N.C. A&amp;T among 22 selected from nearly 400 applicants from 13 institutions, showcasing the university\u2019s role in AI innovation.<\/li>\n<li>The AI Technologies Champion Network, launched in 2025, aims to build cohesive, ethical, and scalable approaches to AI adoption in higher education through collaborative, interdisciplinary projects.<\/li>\n<li>The selected faculty members will participate in S2EARCH26, an event held in June at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington, to offer their expertise and insights to advance AI technologies in education.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faculty Chosen for CAA\u2019s AI Technologies Champion Network, Inaugural Award https:\/\/www.ncat.edu\/news\/2026\/02\/faculty-caa-ai-technologies.php Publish Date: 2026-02-25 03:47:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":190411,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.ncat.edu\/news\/2026\/02\/yihun-presenting.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190410"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190412,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190410\/revisions\/190412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}