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

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…

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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.”