More than $1.6 million in federal funds from the National Science Foundation is going to the University of Rochester.
That according to New York Sens. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand who say that more than $1 million of that money will allow researchers to identify ways to improve education and training for students in the geosciences, which is important in areas like climate change, energy resources and predicting earthquake activity.
This project will look at ways to improve training for students so that they may be able to more efficiently detect, identify and interpret geologic data and processes.
The university also will get nearly a half-million dollars to study ways to prevent and detect malware that is used to hijack computer operating systems in order to steal information and corrupt user data.
