At the behest of President Levin and Provost Martinez, we are pleased to announce that AI Meets Education at Stanford (AIMES), with the support of the Stanford Accelerator for Learning, is launching a new university-wide initiative. The goal is to bring Stanford’s world-class spirit of innovation, inquiry, and evidence to bear on the use of Artificial Intelligence in teaching and learning at the college level. The effort seeks to engage faculty, instructors and students to shape the educational future at Stanford and across the higher education landscape.

The first stage of this initiative launches with competitive funding to faculty, instructors, and students. There are three streams of funding:

• Course and curriculum grants to help develop and revise Stanford classes that meaningfully address AI, whether or not students use AI
• Innovation with evidence grants to support the development and empirical testing of innovative approaches to AI, teaching, and learning at Stanford
• Thought leadership grants for contributing thought provoking intellectual works, of all forms, on pressing issues in AI and Education.

See the full announcement and detailed requests for proposals.

These sessions on Zoom will cover the grant information and answer questions:

• Friday, April 24, 2026, 12–1 pm
• Thursday, May 7, 2026, 2–3 pm

Zoom will have auto-captioning enabled. If you need a disability-related accommodation, please contact Jessica Tsang, jmtsang@stanford.edu, and Kenji Ikemoto, kikemoto@stanford.edu. Requests should be made at least one full week in advance of the meeting date and time.