Published: 5/15/2008
SEATTLE, Wash.—May 15, 2007—The Center for Information Assurance and Cybersecurity (CIAC) at the University of Washington Information School is among the first Centers in the United States to be designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Research, beginning with academic years 2008-2013. The designation recognizes excellence in information assurance research and was bestowed by the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security, joint sponsors of the program.
The need for robust IA technology, policy and practices that will enable our Nation to effectively prevent and respond to a catastrophic event is paramount. The National Centers of Academic Excellence in IA Research (CAE-R) Program was launched in September 2007 to address this need. The CAE-R program is an off-shoot of the current CAE program and recognizes schools that foster an IA research focus in both curriculum, as well as labs. The vision for the program is to establish a process that will present opportunities for IA research centers to drill deeper into much needed solutions to securing the global information grid and provide NSA, DHS and other federal agencies with insight into academic IA programs that can support advanced academic research and development capabilities.
To be awarded the designation, applicants must pass a rigorous review demonstrating their commitment to academic excellence in information assurance research. During the application process applicants are evaluated against five stringent criteria, including criteria designed to measure member faculty contributions to the field, including peer-reviewed research publications, production of PhD students, research grant activity, patents and standards.
"The Center for Information Assurance and Cybersecurity at the University of Washington Information School is honored to be named one of the first Centers for Academic Excellence in Research," said CIAC Director Dr. Barbara Endicott-Popovsky. "In the face of escalating threats, we need truly novel and innovative solutions in cyber security. Industry, academia and government are all needed to rise to the challenges we face. Encouraging multi-disciplined research helps stimulate collaboration among these domains. By bringing research into the classroom, we support the development of tomorrow’s leaders in the field."
A ceremony recognizing certification recipients will be held at an awards dinner at the University of Texas, Dallas on Wednesday, June 4, during the annual conference of the Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education. Endicott-Popovsky will receive the award there on behalf of CIAC and partner Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, whose participation figured prominently in the designation.
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Published: 4/30/2008
The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ – The Progressive Librarians Guild has announced the winner of the 2008 Miriam Braverman Memorial Prize. This year’s prize has been awarded to UW MLIS student Miriam Rigby for her essay entitled “Just Throw It All Away! (and other thoughts I have had that may bar me from a career in archiving).”
Essays were submitted by library and information science students from colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. Their papers considered such subjects as the USA Patriot Act, health literacy outreach, and humanism as critical librarianship. Ms. Rigby’s essay will be published in the forthcoming issue of Progressive Librarian, the journal published by the Progressive Librarians Guild. She will also receive a $300 stipend for attendance at the 2008 American Library Association’s annual meeting in Anaheim, CA, and an award certificate at the PLG annual dinner on June 29, 2008.
The Miriam Braverman Memorial Prize is awarded annually for the best essay written by a student of library/information science on an aspect of the social responsibilities of librarians, libraries or librarianship. The prize is named in honor of Miriam Braverman (1920-2002), an activist librarian who was a longstanding member of the Progressive Librarians Guild and a founder of the American Library Association’s Social Responsibilities Round Table. She was a strong proponent of the social responsibilities perspective within librarianship and an inspiration to younger librarians entering the field.
The Progressive Librarians Guild (PLG) was founded in 1990 and is committed to supporting activist librarians and monitoring the professional ethics of librarianship from a perspective of social responsibility. For more information, visit the Guild’s website at: http://libr.org/PLG/.
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