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NSF Awards $2.5 Million Cyber Training Grant To Pace University

Thursday, August 27th, 2015

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NSF Awards $2.5 Million Cyber Training Grant To Pace University

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The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Pace University a $2.5 million grant to support cybersecurity students at the Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems, the university said Monday.The grant is an extension of a previous CyberCorps program at Pace that received $1 million from the NSF from 2010 through this summer. The new funding will run for five years.This new NSF funding will support 3-4 cybersecurity students annually, assist student research in cybersecurity, and direct outreach programs like…

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