<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/releases/2019/nsa-designation.php" dsn="blogs"><type>Internal</type><external_link/><featured/><category>University News</category><pubDate>05/21/2019</pubDate><title>National Security Agency Names University of New Haven a Center of Academic Excellence</title><description>The designation recognizes the University’s undergraduate cybersecurity and computer science programs that are preparing graduates for the more than 3.5 million cybersecurity positions that are predicted to be unfilled by 2021.</description><hide-description/><author/><author-details/><hide-author/><date>May 21, 2019</date><image><img src="https://newhaven.edu/_resources/images/hero/cyber-systems-masters.jpg" alt="cyber security &amp; networks students"/></image><image-caption>The cutting-edge research conducted by the University's Cyber Forensics Research and Education Group played an important role in the University being designated by the National Security Agency as a National Center for Academic Excellence in Cyber Operations.</image-caption><hide-image/><tags><tag>News</tag><tag>news-all</tag><tag>news-releases</tag><tag>year-2019</tag></tags></item>