A cybersecurity program offered at Pace University has been extended with an additional $2.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
The award will be used for the next five years to help three to four students in Pace”™s Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems studying cybersecurity with financial assistance, aid research in the field and support programs.
Pace students who are enrolled in the grant program for cybersecurity will have curriculum requirements to keep the scholarship and are required to work for government agencies for a certain amount of time following graduation. Students at Pace’s Westchester and New York City campuses are eligible to participate.
One of the programs the grant will support is GenCyber, which is summer training to help high school teachers learn more about cybersecurity.
From 2010 through this summer, the National Science Foundation supported a similar program at Pace known as CyberCorps with $1 million. This year”™s award is an extension of that.
