By Dorothy Lepkowska
Publication Date: 2026-09-23 00:15:00
Morgan State University has announced a new collaboration with Google Public Sector to build a next-generation, AI-driven research campus, securing the high-performance computing infrastructure needed to transform the university into a premier technology hub for students, educators, and researchers.
Through Google Public Sector’s Program for Accelerated Research (GPAR), Morgan State gains access to high-performance GPU compute resources, enabling faculty and students to conduct increasingly sophisticated work in AI, cybersecurity, climate science, health sciences and other rapidly evolving industries.
This collaboration delivers the critical infrastructure required to expand Morgan State’s research capabilities, with a goal of securing Carnegie R1 classification, and to pioneer a scalable model for modern Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to transform.
As the nation’s premier designation for “very high research activity,” Carnegie R1 status would position…


