UMass receives $4.2 mil grant for cybersecurity program
That’s a lot of money for a glorified ROTC job
Although President Meehan isn’t exactly spending money wisely, the University recently received a $4.2 million dollar grant to start a scholarship program promoting, educating, and training students on cybersecurity.
The National Science Foundation founded the CyberCorps program in tandem with the Department of Homeland Security in order to provide scholarships and stipends to students studying “critical information infrastructure,” as noted in the site’s mission.
UMass is the first public University in New England to receive the grant and will start accepting graduate and undergraduate students in the fall 2016 semester.
The NSF grant will support 28 students over the course of five years, and computer scientist Brian Levine will lead the team of future information technology researchers.
Each student will receive up to two years of aid from CyberCorps SFS. Here’s the catch: for each year participants accept aid from SFS they are required to serve in a federal, state, or local government position related to cybersecurity.
With that being said, Levine claims that this program is “actively recruiting women and people from underrepresented minority groups interested in security.”
Students in the Isenberg School of Management, College of Information and Computer Sciences, department of mathematics and statistics, and department of electrical and computer engineering are eligible to apply.
http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1565521