Scholarship Recipients
In the academic year 2024–25, IUP was awarded a significant grant from the Department of Defense (DoD) Cyber Service Academy program to provide full-ride scholarships to the following 13 students:
- Evan Crooks
- Jared Giesen
- Noah Grattan
- Shari Hoch
- Nicholas Kuech
- Thomas McGillan
- Noah Oberholtzer
- Julia O'Brien
- Logan Reddinger
- James Saylor
- Allison Stiteler
- Dylan Timbrook
- Carina Warr
Informational Session
An online information session to explain the scholarship and answer all questions was held on November 20, 2023.
For information about the IUP DoD Scholarship Program and all of its current and previous activities, please see the project main page.
To fill the need for capable cybersecurity professionals, the DoD sought rising junior and senior (third- and fourth-year) undergraduate and graduate/doctoral students who were interested in full-ride scholarships for concentrated studies in cybersecurity. Students selected for the program received full scholarships. This required the student to agree to serve one year of service to the DoD, upon graduation for each year of scholarship received.
Please contact the program director, Waleed Farag, at farag@iup.edu with any questions.
Project Meetings and Documents
Waleed Farag, the project director, along with the co-principal investigator and all scholarship recipients are holding regular meetings throughout the academic year 2024–25. In these meetings, we discuss progress, address, and resolve any concerns or challenges that any of the awardees may face, and ensure success in completing their degrees and compliance with the terms and conditions for the DoD scholarship award.
Listed below are meeting documents for the 2024–25 DoD Cyber Scholarship Program.