Project Grant 11PD12700000202

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education under the STEM Education (47.076) program provides $240,000 to the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth to develop a cybersecurity education framework for computer science students. The project aims to build a "cybersecurity mindset" by integrating threat-driven cybersecurity modules into non-cybersecurity computer science courses, allowing students to build, break, and fix...

The Center for Excellence in Cybersecurity Education will provide $2.87 million in funding from the Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) program to Brookdale Community College Inc. from September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2025. Under this Project Grant award, Brookdale Community College will establish and operate the Center for Excellence in Cybersecurity Education to support institutional reforms and innovative strategies designed to improve...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education provides $157,741 to Bridgevalley Community & Technical College to develop a collaborative cybersecurity analysis certification program with two other West Virginia educational institutions. The goal is to build an educational and career pipeline for critically needed cyber specialists and grow a capable, trained cybersecurity workforce within West Virginia and nationally. Specifically, the...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $300,017 Cooperative Agreement under the Science, Technology, Business and/or Education Outreach program (CFDA 11.620) to the Strategic Ohio Council for Higher Education (SOCHE), doing business as The Dayton-Miami Valley Consortium, for the Cybersecurity Consortium of Southwestern Ohio (CCSO) project. The 24-month project aims to establish a regional cybersecurity education, research, and training corridor between Cincinnati and...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) provides $262,900 to Portland State University over the period of October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2025. The goal of this project is to redesign security education curricula to better integrate and leverage the use of large language models (LLMs) in addressing modern cybersecurity challenges. The key objectives are to create new educational content and lab...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $120,036 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to North Dakota State University (NDSU) and the University of Washington Tacoma. The purpose of this 2-year collaborative research project is to develop tailored curriculum modules and scalable pathways to provide comprehensive cybersecurity and privacy education for criminal justice professionals across the United States. The goal is to equip these...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $179,883 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to the University of Washington Tacoma and North Dakota State University. The grant aims to develop tailored curriculum modules and scalable pathways to provide cybersecurity and privacy education to criminal justice professionals across the country. The project will create three progressive courses starting with foundational cybersecurity and privacy...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Science, Technology, Business and/or Education Outreach program (CFDA 11.620) provides $299,653 to Purdue University to create a cybersecurity workforce ecosystem in the Northwest Indiana region. The project aims to develop a sustainable pipeline for the cybersecurity workforce through guided education, training, skill development, and scholarship programs. Key activities include...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to enable the convergence of public, private, and education sectors to prepare learners for the cybersecurity convergence workforce. The $650,000 award, granted on September 15, 2024 with a completion date of August 31, 2027, will develop educational and training materials in the form of virtual lab libraries for operational technology (OT)/industrial control systems (ICS) and IT...

This $176,277 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports the Examining Pedagogy in Cybersecurity at Military Academies (EPIC) project at the University of Illinois. Over three years, EPIC will conduct a quasi-experimental study involving over 6,300 first-year students at the U.S. Naval Academy and U.S. Military Academy to examine the relative efficacy of traditional versus simulation-based instructional approaches for teaching cybersecurity...