New S&T Centers

Cybersecurity and polar ice sheets are the themes of the newest NSF-funded science and technology centers. The centers will receive around $19 million each over five years.

The cybersecurity center, called the Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology, is led by the University of California, Berkeley, and has more than a dozen academic and industrial partners. By bringing together experts in computer security, systems modeling and analysis, software, economics, and social sciences, TRUST aims to develop technologies to protect infrastructures such as finance, energy distribution, telecommunications, and transportation.

The University of Kansas, with the Ohio State and Pennsylvania State universities, the University of Maine, Elizabeth City State University in North Carolina, and Haskell Indian Nations University in Kansas, is launching the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets. CReSIS plans to develop models and measurement techniques to research polar ice sheets and how they affect sea level and climate. The effort will focus on remote sensing technology, aerospace engineering, glaciology, and geophysics.