National Science Foundation Awards $4.4 Million to Worcester Polytechnic Institute for CyberSecurity Program

January 16, 2015 |Internet

The Worcester Polytechnic Institute was given $4.4 million by the National Science Foundation to address the “critical national shortage of highly trained experts in cybersecurity,” a WPI news release said Thursday. The program, funded by NSF’s CyberCorps: Scholarship for Service initiative, will provide scholarships to 25 undergraduate and graduate students who commit to government employment upon graduation, it said. Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., said in the release: “We have a critical need for additional experts in this field -- a need that the federal government can and should help to fill.”