• Announcing PIT-UN Members Selected For The 2025-2026 National Deep Inference Fabric Advisory Board

    PIT-UN members to guide NSF-funded AI research project Year 2, November 2025 PIT-UN members continue to contribute their Public Interest Technology expertise to partner organizations and external entities. In the fall of 2025, seven PIT-UN faculty members were selected to provide their expertise to the NSF National Deep Inference Fabric (NDIF). NDIF is a research computing…

  • 2025-2026 Tech for Change Hackathon RFP Has Closed

    California Polytechnic State University V.E.S.T and PIT-UN Tech for Change Hackathon

  • 2025-2026 Career Fair RFP Has Ended

    PIT-UN 2025-2026 Career Fair RFP has Closed Submissions The Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN)  is seeking applications from its member institutions’ Career Placement or Career Counseling Service staff for career fair(s) that focus on specific areas that cultivate students as the future of the PIT workforce. PIT-UN Career Fairs should highlight career-relevant technology curriculum…

  • The ComPITence Project

    The ComPITence Project Lauri Goldkind is  professor at Fordham’s Graduate School of Social Service and the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Technology in Human Services. Dr. Goldkind’s current research has two strands: artificial intelligence and data ecosystems in nonprofits and social justice and civic engagement in organizational life. She has a robust network of community…

  • PIT-UN Summit Voices: AI in Health Care

    Joe Grzywacz of San José State University will lead a session on Public Healthcare Delivery in the Era of AI on Day 1 of the PIT-UN Summit.

  • PIT-UN Summit Voices: Smart Cities

    We hear a lot about Smart Cities these days – but whose interests are centered in these conversations? Hear from 2024 PIT-UN Summit panelists.

  • How to Apply a Rhetorical Approach to Political Communication Technology Research

    Learn from Missouri S&T how to do political communication research to push for digital technologies that advance democracy

  • Student Voices from Across PIT-UN

    Meet five students who are building community and career opportunities while charting paths in public interest technology (PIT).

  • How to do Interdisciplinary Research on Current PIT Issues

    Teams of faculty and students at U Michigan conduct interdisciplinary research to identify the climate impacts of emerging technologies.

  • PIT in Practice: Carnegie Mellon

    Through new courses, degree programs and an interdisciplinary center, CMU is steering AI development toward the public interest