Scholarships for Service: Increasing Talented Trus

休斯顿大学（UH）寻求建立一个网络军团：服务奖学金（SFS）项目，为研究生为政府服务做好准备，以帮助确保、保护和捍卫我们国家的信息系统。UH计划资助3名博士研究生和9名硕士研究生。UH被列为非常高研究型大学，被列为西班牙裔服务机构，自2009年以来一直被指定为信息保障教育学术卓越中心。该项目旨在解决墨西哥湾沿岸地区及其他地区的需求，国家对网络安全专业人员的需求，以及对网络安全领域更多女性和代表性不足的少数群体的需求。该项目的重点是通过数据挖掘、机器学习、统计学和自然语言处理等相关领域丰富网络安全教育。UH建议建立一个可信计算领域的高素质学者社区，为学生提供丰富的理论和应用网络安全经验，促进学生群体的多样性，并向全国传播网络安全教育的成功模式。该教育计划包括利用网络战争和实验室练习进行社区建设和同伴指导。计划的专业发展活动包括以专业技能发展为重点的讲习班、研讨会和对政府机构和研究机构的外部访问。

The University of Houston (UH) seeks to establish a CyberCorps(R): Scholarship for Service (SFS) program to prepare graduate students for government service in order to help secure, protect and defend our Nation's information systems. UH proposes to support 3 PhD students and 9 MS students. UH is classified as a Very High Research University, is classified as a Hispanic-Serving institution, and has been designated as a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education since 2009. This project seeks to address the needs of the Gulf-coast region and beyond, the need of the nation for cybersecurity professionals, and the need for more women and underrepresented minorities in cybersecurity.The focus of the project is on enriching cybersecurity education with related fields such as data mining, machine learning, statistics and natural language processing. UH proposes to build a community of well-qualified scholars in trusted computing, provide a rich set of theoretical and applied cybersecurity experiences for the students, foster diversity in the student pool, and disseminate successful models of cybersecurity education to the nation. The education plan includes the use of cyberwar and laboratory exercises for community building and peer mentoring. Professional development activities planned include workshops focused on professional skill development, seminars, and external visits to government agencies and research institutes.