{"id":227290,"date":"2026-06-06T12:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T16:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/06\/spelman-college-names-renowned-roboticist-dr-ayanna-howard-as-its-12th-president\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T15:25:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T19:25:25","slug":"spelman-college-names-renowned-roboticist-dr-ayanna-howard-as-its-12th-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/06\/spelman-college-names-renowned-roboticist-dr-ayanna-howard-as-its-12th-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Spelman College names renowned roboticist Dr. Ayanna Howard as its 12th president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thegrio.com\/2026\/06\/06\/spelman-ayanna-howard-12th-president\/\">Spelman College names renowned roboticist Dr. Ayanna Howard as its 12th president<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thegrio.com\/2026\/06\/06\/spelman-ayanna-howard-12th-president\/\">https:\/\/thegrio.com\/2026\/06\/06\/spelman-ayanna-howard-12th-president\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-06 12:47:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"thegrio.com\">thegrio.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Spelman College has appointed Dr. Ayanna Howard as its 12th president, effective August 1, 2026. <\/li>\n<li>Dr. Howard comes to Spelman from The Ohio State University, where she served as dean of the College of Engineering.<\/li>\n<li>Her career includes significant contributions in higher education, technology, entrepreneurship, and government, including work at NASA and the Georgia Institute of Technology.<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Howard is known for her expertise in robotics, AI, and human-centered technology, and is the co-founder of Zyrobotics and Black in Robotics.<\/li>\n<li>She has authored over 300 scholarly publications and has served on several prominent boards, including Brown University, Autodesk, and Motorola Solutions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spelman College names renowned roboticist Dr. Ayanna Howard as its 12th president https:\/\/thegrio.com\/2026\/06\/06\/spelman-ayanna-howard-12th-president\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":227291,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thegrio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/dr-ayanna-howard-spelman-college-12th-president-thegrio.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227290","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\/227290"}],"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=227290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227292,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227290\/revisions\/227292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}