*List of Announcements (details below):* * Jie Xu Receives Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Award * Damon McCoy and Houman Homayoun Receive Funding from General Motors * Damon McCoy Receives Funding from NSF * Robert Elder and Alex Levis Receive Funding from U MD / US Dept. of Homeland Security *Jie Xu Receives Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Award *Jie Xu of the Systems Engineering & Operations Research Department has been selected to receive a 2013 Ralph E. Power Junior Faculty Enhancement Award.Oak Ridge Associated Universities sponsors these awards, and the recipients receive a $5,000 research award from ORAU. *Damon McCoy and Houman Homayoun Receive Funding from General Motors* Damon McCoy of the Computer Science Department and Houman Homayoun of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department received $261K from General Motors LLC for their project "Cybersecurity Penetration Testing Research". *Damon McCoy Receives Funding from NSF* Damon McCoy of the Computer Science Department received $11K from the National Science Foundation for his project "TWC: Frontier: Collaborative: Beyond Technical Security: Developing an Empirical Basis for Socio-Economic Perspectives---Participant Support". *Robert Elder and Alex Levis Receive Funding from U MD / US Dept. of Homeland Security* Robert Elder and Alex Levis of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department received $69K from the University of Maryland and the US Dept. of Homeland Security for their project "South Asia Geopolitical Stability Follow-On Study". -- =============================================================== Stephen G. Nash Senior Associate Dean Volgenau School of Engineering George Mason University Nguyen Engineering Building, Room 2500 Mailstop 5C8 Fairfax, VA 22030 [log in to unmask] Phone: (703) 993-1505 Fax: (703) 993-1633 http://volgenau.gmu.edu/about_ite/associate_dean_research_graduate_studies.php