STEM Career Pathways: Undergraduate Education (2)
{"Image DocumentName": "STEM Career Pathways: Undergraduate Education (2)", "Image ImageDescription": "CyberCorps: Scholarship for Service (SFS) supports scholarships and capacity building activities designed to increase the number of qualified students entering cybersecurity fields. Customized, scaled model of a city water supply system used by NSF CyberCorps students to test operating software weaknesses. SFS Project Example: In a world increasing reliant upon technology and digital information, it has become imperative that countries ratchet up their cybersecurity efforts to combat hackers and other cyber threats. The United States faces a colossal bombardment of cyber attacks everyday that threaten our national security and critical infrastructure. The extreme concern over cybersecurity is depicted in the 60-Day Cyberspace Policy Review initiated by President Obama in 2009, which concluded that the U.S. must do more to keep pace with the threat. A key recommendation made by the review team was to increase cybersecurity education. To achieve this goal, NSF s Scholarship for Service Program (SFS) awards grants to institutions with information assurance (IA) programs to provide scholarships to students pursuing degrees in relevant fields. These students receive high quality instruction on information assurance matters to meet the United States cybersecurity workforce need. One highly successful SFS program can be found at Mississippi State University (MSU), a National Center of Academic Excellence since 2001 and part of the SFS program since The program is turning out some of the brightest graduates from its Center for Computer Security Research. MSU actively partners with minority institutions (Tuskegee University, Jackson State University (JSU), and Mississippi Valley State University) in research grants and curriculum development. These efforts have resulted in 3 SFS graduates from JSU and a security program in place at JSU. Nine of the 52 MSU SFS graduates were minorities To date, the program has awarded 52 SFS scholarships, nine of the 52 graduates are students from traditionally underrepresented groups. Nearly 100% of all the students have been placed successfully in internships with federal and/or governmental entities. Transforming Undergraduate Education in STEM (TUES) supports efforts to create, adapt, and disseminate new learning materials and teaching strategies, develop faculty expertise, implement educational innovations, assess learning and evaluate innovations, and conduct research on STEM teaching and learning.", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}