UB has been designated as a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education by the National Security Agency (NSA) and is now eligible for a competitive grant which gives full scholarship support to undergraduate and graduate students seeking degrees and graduate certificates in information assurance disciplines.
The goal of this program is to develop specialists in information assurance, an area that tries to reduce the vulnerabilities in national information infrastructure, to work within the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD). Information assurance includes cryptography, web security, computer forensics, system/network administration and systems security engineering.
Undergraduate applicants must be at least a junior in fall 2002 and have a minimum 2.5 GPA. Graduate students must be starting a master's program in fall 2002 and have a GPA of 3.0 in their undergraduate work. All majors are accepted, but applicants must be citizens of the United States.
Scholarship recipients will be required to work for the DOD, as a civilian employee, for a full calendar year for each year they receive the scholarship. The scholarship, which pays for the full cost of tuition, fees, books, lab expenses, supplies and equipment incurred by students selected for the program, carries an additional stipend of $10,000 for undergraduate students and $15,000 for graduate students.
Applications, due by April 25, are online at http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/caeiae/News/2002/03/27/AttachmentDvacancy.doc. The application packet must include a DARS report, two references and a statement of purpose on how the money will be used to achieve academic goals.
For more information, contact professor Shambhu Upadhyaya, shambhu@cse.buffalo.edu or professor H. Raghav Rao, mgmtrao@acsu.buffalo.edu.
