The Institute for Excellence in Teaching & Learning proudly announces the recipients of the Shipley Academic Innovation Fund Award, recognizing faculty-led initiatives that leverage artificial intelligence to reimagine teaching, learning, and academic innovation.

The remarkable response to these AI-focused academic innovation calls highlights the momentum we are seeing across our faculty community as they explore meaningful and responsible ways to advance AI in teaching and learning

Wendy Colby

Vice President and Associate Provost of BU Virtual and the Institute for Excellence in Teaching & Learning

This year’s Shipley Academic Innovation Fund supported two distinct areas of focus:

Course-Level Innovation: Incorporating Generative AI to Meet Hub Learning Outcomes, created in collaboration with the Office of Undergraduate Affairs, is designed to integrate generative AI into Boston University’s university-wide Hub general education curriculum. These projects provide students with opportunities to develop fluency in generative AI literacy, ethical use, and innovation.

Catalyzing AI Advancement in Teaching & Learning Through Faculty Collaboration, created in partnership with the AI Development Accelerator (AIDA), provides faculty with the support and creative space to experiment, pilot, and prototype AI-enabled innovations in teaching and learning. These collaborative projects are designed to drive impact and scale across programs and disciplines.

Course-Level Innovation: Incorporating Generative AI to Meet Hub Learning Outcomes

Awards have been granted to the following faculty projects:

  • From Bias to Brilliance: Integrating GenAI for Responsible Learning
    • Giselle Khoury-Disano | College of Arts & Sciences
  • Create Your Own Hero with Generative AI
    • Diane Mello-Goldner | College of Arts & Sciences
  • Redesigning Spanish Language Courses Using UDL and Generative AI
    • Philip Noonan, Pau Cañigueral Batllosera, Carmen Torre Pérez, Edgardo Tormos Bigles, and María Datel | College of Arts & Sciences
  • Course Development: Advanced Media Writing in the Age of AI
    • Michael Dowding | College of Communication
  • Ethical Co-Intelligence: GenAI Literacy and Design Simulations
    • Margaret Wallace | College of Communication
  • Ethics of AI
    • Sheila Cordner | College of General Studies
  • Enhancing Pulmonary Pathophysiology Education Through Generative AI and Multimedia Integration
    • Dustin Allen | Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences
  • Integrating Data, AI, Ethics, and Health Information Literacy in the Health Science Program
    • Shelley Brown & Kerrin Gallagher | Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences
  • Hospitality as Experience Innovation in the Age of AI: Integrating Generative AI into Human-Centered Design in SHA HF 150
    • Makarand Mody | School of Hospitality Administration

Catalyzing AI Advancement in Teaching & Learning Through Faculty Collaboration

Awards have been granted to the following collaborative projects:

  • Developing Evidence-Informed AI Assignments for Psychology Courses: A Needs-Driven Teaching and Learning Project
    • Andrea E. Mercurio, Catherine Caldwell-Harris, & Chloe Jordan | College of Arts & Sciences
  • From Idea to Impact: AI and Media Entrepreneurship—Turning Inspiration into Innovation through AI
    • Jodi Luber & Margaret Wallace | College of Communication
  • Generative AI Demonstrations in Engineering Mechanics Education
    • Emma Lejeune, Harold Park, Paul Barbone, & Caleb Farny | College of Engineering
  • PaperBuddy: Integrating AI in Reading Assignments for Flipped Classrooms
    • Kinan Dak Albab, John Liagouris, & Vasiliki Kalavri | Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences
  • AI-Assisted Grading for Written, Diagrammatic, and Spreadsheet-Based Work
    • Michael Levinger, Neha Shastri, Uwe Meding, & Courtney Pike | Metropolitan College
  • Ethics Under Pressure: Measuring Student Learning Outcomes in Generative AI Simulations
    • Paul McManus, Rebecca Nichols, Timothy Simcoe, & Jeffrey Furman | Questrom School of Business
  • Scaling AI-Driven Clinical Simulations to Transform Experiential Learning in Speech-Language Pathology
    • Caroline Brinkert & Kelly Hansen | Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences
  • AI for Legal Language Learning: Enhancing Academic Fluency through Ethical, Structured, and Scalable AI Integration
    • Brooke Arlington & Rebecca Pendleton | School of Law
  • Developing an Instructional Processing System with Agentic AI for Graduate Data Lifecycle Education
    • Kimberly Dukes, Pengsheng Ni, Julie Alperen, Tara Tripp, & Danielle Emig | School of Public Health
  • Reimagining Simulation in Blackboard Ultra: Using Generative AI for Reflective and Applied Learning in Social Work Education
    • Lyndsey McMahan, Jordana Muroff, Mark Gianino, Ashley Davis, & Matthew King | School of Social Work

I am truly honored and thrilled to receive a Shipley Academic Innovation Fund Award. I am excited to incorporate BU’s new AI at BU certificate into the next Media Ventures cohort curriculum and to integrate AI into our students’ thesis projects.

Jodi Luber

Senior Associate Dean of Faculty & Student Affairs

Associate Professor of the Practice in Media Innovation at BU’s College of Communication

Established in 2021 through the generosity of BU Trustee Emeritus Richard C. Shipley, the Shipley Center is part of the Institute for Excellence in Teaching & Learning. The Center supports faculty efforts to advance academic innovation in teaching and learning, with a focus on effective student engagement.

To stay connected with the work of the Institute for Excellence in Teaching & Learning look for an AI Shipley Academic Innovation Fund showcase later this year highlighting the work of these award recipients.