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UTD is helping prepare computer science students, including Arturo Yundt-Pacheco and Reese Hoffart (right), with Dr. Kamil Sarac (left), for careers in cybersecurity. [Photo: UTD]
The Last Word: On UTD Being Redesignated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity
by David Seeley | Apr 10, 2025
The University of Texas at Dallas has been redesignated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity for cyber research for its “innovative and impactful” research contributions and its educational programs that train new generations of cybersecurity professionals.
by Quincy Preston |
Dec 6, 2022
The grant award supports a new online platform to find out why cyber jobs are going unfilled—and make it easy for employers to find talent through an online database. UNT's Ram Dantu and Mark Thompson are principal investigators on the project. Dantu says foreign governments are "spying on us all the time,” and threats like ransomware attacks and cyber attacks abound.
"We need a large workforce to combat this, and we don’t have the workforce,” Dantu says.
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