Justice Sciences' Chair Dr. John Sloan has received a $24K grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social and Economic Sciences (SES) Directorate to support a conference on ethics and digital forensics next May at NSF headquarters in Bethesda, MD.
Submitted on behalf of the Alabama Cyber Research Consortium (ALCRC), comprised of the 7 doctoral granting post-secondary institutions in Alabama, Sloan and colleagues at the University of Alabama, Drs. Mark Lanier and Kathryn Seigfried-Spellar, will organize all aspects of the conference. Details on the conference will be forthcoming early next year.
Sloan Receives NSF Grant for Ethics Conference
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