{"id":230777,"date":"2026-06-12T12:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T16:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/garret-westlake-selected-for-google-ai-faculty-fellowship-vcu-news\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T12:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T16:55:11","slug":"garret-westlake-selected-for-google-ai-faculty-fellowship-vcu-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/garret-westlake-selected-for-google-ai-faculty-fellowship-vcu-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Garret Westlake selected for Google AI faculty fellowship &#8211; VCU News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.vcu.edu\/article\/garret-westlake-selected-for-google-ai-faculty-fellowship\">Garret Westlake selected for Google AI faculty fellowship &#8211; VCU News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.vcu.edu\/article\/garret-westlake-selected-for-google-ai-faculty-fellowship\">https:\/\/news.vcu.edu\/article\/garret-westlake-selected-for-google-ai-faculty-fellowship<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-12 12:40:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"news.vcu.edu\">news.vcu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The fellowship program supports university faculty in utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) for teaching, research, and institutional innovation, providing a global network for sharing expertise and collaborating on responsible AI adoption.<\/li>\n<li>Westlake, a professor at the VCU School of Business, is motivated by integrating AI in a way that retains the human elements of teaching and learning. He emphasizes interdisciplinary innovation and collaboration at VCU.<\/li>\n<li>As leader of the Office of Innovation and Strategic Design at VCU, Westlake fosters cross-disciplinary collaborations, innovation strategy, and applied learning.<\/li>\n<li>He is an early adopter of AI, involved with AI Ready RVA, and explores AI&#8217;s role in enhancing career pathways from middle school to university graduation through Google\u2019s Career Dreamer.<\/li>\n<li>Westlake is also using AI to support health sciences students&#8217; development in communication skills and professionalism, creating platforms that promote meaningful conversation.<\/li>\n<li>His work at VCU includes co-founding Shift Labs and contributing to course design, workshop facilitation, and institutional strategy across multiple sectors.<\/li>\n<li>The fellowship culminates in a meeting at Google\u2019s headquarters in California, where fellows present their AI innovation projects to industry leaders.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garret Westlake selected for Google AI faculty fellowship &#8211; VCU News https:\/\/news.vcu.edu\/article\/garret-westlake-selected-for-google-ai-faculty-fellowship Publish Date: 2026-06-12&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":230778,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/news.vcu.edu\/image\/2860cb34-d04a-4546-b8f2-0ba67a86fb73","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-230777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230777"}],"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=230777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230779,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230777\/revisions\/230779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}