威尼斯人娱乐城和密苏里大学将领导五个区域中心之一，开展一项新的研究安全工作，这项工作由美国国家科学基金会通过《2022年芯片和科学法案》资助。
The NSF announced a 五年，投资6700万美元 establishing the 保护美国整个研究生态系统 (SECURE) Center. 资金包括在五年内为威尼斯人娱乐城和MU提供500万美元，用于建立和运营安全中西部区域中心。
在包括威尼斯人娱乐城和MU在内的全国九所高等教育机构的支持下，安全中心旨在为研究界提供服务，以识别和解决对美国研究企业的威胁，例如外国实体的干扰和不道德或非法访问。 密歇根大学负责研究合规和诚信的副校长Michele Kennett和威尼斯人娱乐城负责研究的临时副校长Anthony Caruso将领导安全中西部中心。
“研究 security is not common, unnecessarily complex, expensive to staff and yet essential – we are helping to make research security challenges understandable, manageable, affordable and effective,” Caruso said. “We are humbled and honored to connect to the Midwest universities.”
“We are excited to be part of an initiative that will engage university leadership, compliance officials, individual researchers and private organizations across the U.S. research community,” Kennett said. “This engagement will assure that the research community is integral in the process to arrive at security solutions that protect the national research enterprise.”
国家安全中心将分享区域中心关于研究安全风险等主题的信息和报告。 它还将为科学和工程界提供研究安全方面的培训，并作为研究界和政府资助机构之间的桥梁，加强在解决安全问题方面的合作。
“The SECURE Center is how we bring the research community together to identify risks, share information and leverage national expertise on research security to develop solutions that protect essential research being done at institutions across the nation,” said NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan.