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Beginning this fall semester, Portland State University (PSU) campus safety officers will no longer carry guns when they are on patrol on campus. 

Purdue University Global has been designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Education through academic year 2025 for its Bachelor of Science degree in cybersecurity.

The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) will receive $1.1 million of the $3.3 million in research, education and training grants awarded to universities that comprise FAA’s Air Transportation Center of Excellence (COE) for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), also known as the Alliance for System Safety of UAS through Research Excellence (ASSURE).

Texas A&M University has named J. Mike Johnson its next police chief.

The UW-System and UW-Madison will receive $32 million from the state as they prepare to welcome students back to campus this fall.

The Georgia Institute of Technology has selected Daren Hubbard as its new chief information officer and vice president for Information Technology. 

To safely reopen college campuses this fall, students need to be screened for SARS-CoV-2 infection every two or three days, finds a new study led by the Yale School of Public Health.

The National Science Foundation has awarded Georgia State’s Evidence-Based Cybersecurity Research Group (EBCS) nearly $300,000 for a pilot program to teach students advanced cybersecurity research skills and match them with CISOs, with whom they will test tools to improve organizations’ security.