The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees was awarded a $1,970,774 Project Grant on August 30, 2024 by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Minority Serving Institutions (MSI) Partnership Program (CFDA 81.123). The grant aims to conduct STEM outreach programs, recruit and provide research opportunities for promising undergraduate and graduate students in STEM disciplines related to nuclear security, and facilitate the placement of top-tier students into formal...
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T) was awarded a $200,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the STEM Education federal grant program (CFDA 47.076) to develop cybersecurity education modules focused on adversarial machine learning techniques in malware analysis applications. The three-year award running from June 2023 to May 2026 will support NC A&T's research and development of self-contained course modules exploring topics such...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $325,185 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to the University of Houston System (UHS), a Hispanic Serving Institution, on September 15, 2023. The grant will fund a collaborative research project titled "CyberTraining: Implementation: Small: Train the Trainers as Next Generation Leaders in Data Science for Cybersecurity for Underrepresented Communities." The project aims to enhance...
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has awarded a $1,000,000 Project Grant under the NNSA Minority Serving Institutions (MSI) Partnership Program (CFDA 81.123) to Morgan State University, a Historically Black University located in Baltimore, Maryland. The purpose of this 5-year grant is to build and support the workforce capacity of the NNSA's Nuclear Security Enterprise by: (1) expanding scientific and technical knowledge in areas such as advanced manufacturing,...
This $539,574 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Undergraduate Education under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports Nash Community College in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. The project aims to integrate cybersecurity principles into the college's Information Technology/Information Systems (IT/IS) associate degree program, producing skilled technicians equipped with essential cybersecurity knowledge. Key products and services of the 3-year...
This Project Grant award from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) under the Minority Serving Institutions Program (CFDA 77.007) provides $600,000 to North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T) to support its PARTICIPATION IN NUCLEAR ENGINEERING (PINE): RESEARCH AND EDUCATION CONCENTRATION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING program. The award, which runs from Apr 23, 2024 to Apr 22, 2028, will enable NC A&T to develop educational and research initiatives focused...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.070 - Computer and Information Science and Engineering) provides $1,037,598 to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation to enhance the research and education networking capabilities of four minority-serving institutions (MSIs) in Alabama and Tennessee.
The project aims to increase each campus' network connectivity to 10 Gbps, establish performance monitoring, configure network access to a shared science DMZ and data transfer...
This $1,000,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Human Resource Development will fund Prairie View A&M University's efforts to enhance cybersecurity research and education infrastructure through February 2026. Specifically, the university will develop a new graduate program in cybersecurity that complements existing capacity building efforts. This will be accomplished by creating novel security architectures, training experts across hardware, software and...
This $150,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) to North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University aims to train a diverse research workforce to develop and use fair, ethical, and unbiased AI-based cybersecurity solutions for cloud computing infrastructure.
The project will develop and integrate seven advanced experiential learning modules, referred to as AI4SecureCI, into...
This Project Grant award of $599,755 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure supports research by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T) to fortify the cybersecurity of data-intensive scientific cyber-infrastructures. The project aims to form a cybersecurity coalition within North Carolina to promote collaboration and knowledge sharing, collect comprehensive cybersecurity incident data, and utilize the data to model...