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The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S.
Department of Defense have awarded SEAS three grants totaling more than
$4 million to help secure the nation’s information infrastructure
by providing scholarships for U.S. students to study computer security
and by further developing a portable computer security laboratory. GW
is already a National Security Agency (NSA)-certified Center of Academic
Excellence in Information Assurance Education.
These grants are part of the GW’s Partnership
in Securing Cyberspace through Education and Service (PISCES) program.
More than $3.25 million in funding has been provided for two-year full
scholarships (tuition, books, stipend, and in most cases, room and board)
for students to study computer security at GW or a partner university.
After completing their coursework, students will help protect the nation’s
information infrastructure by working in a government agency for two
years as security experts. Approximately $750,000 has also been provided
to build capacity at local institutions by developing a portable security
laboratory that may be used in a wide range of computer security and
information assurance courses at multiple institutions. Related work
will develop hands-on exercises and case studies allowing students to
use knowledge gained in the classroom to solve real world computer security
and information assurance challenges.
“Just as the Reserve Officer Training Corps
trains traditional military officers, our CyberCorps program will train
the cyber-age experts who defend and secure the information infrastructure,”
said Professor Lance Hoffman. “And just as ROTC has summer camp
for its students, this program will place trained students in summer
internships and post-graduate jobs working on federal computer systems.”
GW is partnering with Gallaudet University and
Marymount University on the CyberCorps program to expand computer science
and information assurance education opportunities to traditionally underrepresented
groups and citizens of the Washington area, as well as to capitalize
on the strength and accessibility of courses available to students through
the 11-member Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan
Area.”
Collaborating on the grant projects along
with Hoffman and the Department of Computer Science chair, Professor
C. Dianne Martin, are Professor Cynthia Cicalese of Marymount University;
Ronald Gove, visiting professor of computer science at SEAS; Tim Rosenberg,
associate research professor in the Department of Computer Science;
Professor William Millios of Gallaudet University; and Richard Soland,
professor of operations research in the SEAS Department of Engineering
Management and Systems Engineering. Eleven GW students and two Marymount
students were selected to receive scholarships this past year. They
include: Ari Elias-Buchrach, Quynh Dang, Evan Dornbush, Brendan Farrar-Foley,
Nils Janson, Kunal Johar, Arnetta Kelly (Marymount), Kim Lawson-Jenkins,
Michael Levine (Marymount), Joseph Mathews, Timothy Rice, Eric Rothenberger,
and Stephanie Showell.
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