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Tracy Mitrano Appointed Academic Dean of New Cybersecurity Program

Tracy Mitrano

Tracy Mitrano has joined the College of Information and Computer Sciences as the Academic Dean of a new cybersecurity program, the Trust, Assurance and Cybersecurity Certificate, or TACC. A component of the college's Cybersecurity Institute, TACC is a certificate program comprised of three new courses and one existing course: Internet Law and Policy, Information Risk Management, Cybersecurity, and a TACC Capstone. The certificate program will be taught in the UMass Center at Springfield in the Tower Square district of Springfield, MA.

Mitrano is the former director of Information Technology Policy at Cornell University. Prior to that role, she was a lecturer in social policy in the College of Human Ecology at Cornell. She has a doctorate in American History from Binghamton University and a law degree from Cornell University Law School.

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