AUSTIN, Texas — The William P. Clements Jr. Center on History, Strategy and Statecraft is being established at The University of Texas at Austin to train leaders in the history of national security and diplomacy and to honor the legacy of one of the most influential statesmen in Texas history, former Gov. Bill Clements.

The Climate Change and African Political Stability Program's work involving students is featured on the University of Texas' 2012 Retrospective.  The retrospective highlights the University's biggest accomplishments, including the many opportunities for gaining hands-on experience.  In the CCAPS Program's three years, 82 university students have participated in CCAPS research, along with 14 additional students from partner universities. Students have conducted fieldwork in Africa and collaborated with faculty members to produce 43 publications and reports based on their work. The students have worked as research assistants, interns, database coders and field researchers.

The National Security Agency has just released a new publication titled: “Building a national program for cybersecurity science” in the latest issue of its technology publication The Next Wave. The Next Wave is published to disseminate technical advancements and research activities in telecommunications and information technologies. Strauss Center Distinguished Scholar Fred Chang served as the Guest Editor of this publication, which includes contributions from numerous organizations in the U.S. Federal Government as well as an introduction by General Keith Alexander, Commander of the U.S. Cyber Command and Director of NSA.

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has selected The University of Texas at Austin to be a key partner in a five-year, $25 million grant to develop tools to more effectively target, monitor and evaluate foreign aid globally.