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In what may be a first for Georgia, Columbus State University is partnering with the Muscogee County School District on a National Security Agency (NSA) grant to develop and implement a course in cybersecurity education specifically designed for middle school students.   The $50,000 NSA grant allows CSU’s TSYS School of Computer Science and its TSYS Center for Cybersecurity to work with Rothschild Middle School Leadership Academy to develop and implement a course in cybersecurity education specifically designed for 7th and 8th grade middle school students.   About 140 7th and 8th grade students at Rothschild Middle School will have the appropriate prerequisite to take the year-long elective course on cybersecurity education during the 2017-2018 academic year. “ Whether you are six or 60 years old, cybersecurity is important to us all,” said Wayne Summers , professor and chairperson of CSU’s TSYS School of Computer Science. “By teaching the elements of cybersecurity in middle...

Fady Mansour recently joined the economics faculty in the Turner College from Black Hills State University in Spearfish, South Dakota, where he served as a visiting assistant professor of economics.  His research interests include health economics and labor economics, and his work on economic insecurity and fertility appears in the Journal of Family and Economic Issues .  He has also presented his research at the annual meetings of the Midwest Economic Association and of the Academy of Economics and Finance.  Mansour completed doctoral degree requirements in economics from Middle Tennessee State University in 2017 .