Dr. Jeff Teo
Professor of Cybersecurity
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Dear Department of State Exchange Participant:
Congratulations on being selected to represent the United States as a member of the Department of State Exchange Program.
I have made it a top priority to strengthen and maintain our Nation’s oldest friendships and build new partnerships in pursuit of peace. This program is one of the many ways our Nation is achieving this goal. I am proud to have you take part in this special opportunity.
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Dr. Jeff Teo Receives Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to Lithuania to promote awareness and increase program capacity of cybersecurity expertise and educational offerings through curriculum development, teaching, and research
The U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board are pleased to announce that Dr. Jeff Teo of Bluefield College, Bluefield Virginia has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award to Lithuania in Cybersecurity. Dr. Teo will teach and research at LCC International University in Klaipeda, Lithuania as part of a project to increase cybersecurity awareness and expertise. In addition, he will promote and foster cultural and academic exchanges among students and faculty between Bluefield College and LCC International University, a Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU) Collaborative Partner.
Dear Dr. Teo,
On behalf of the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, I am pleased to congratulate you on your selection for a Fulbright award to Lithuania. Our presidentially appointed 12-member Board is responsible for supervising the Fulbright Program worldwide and approving the selection of all Fulbright recipients. Your grant is made possible through funds appropriated annually by the U.S. Congress and, in many cases, by contributions from partner countries and the private sector.
Dear Dr. Teo: It is a pleasure to inform you that the peer review process organized by the Institute of International Education’s Council for International Exchange of Scholars (IIE/CIES) has concluded and that you are among those recommended for a Fulbright award in Lithuania. Please know that this peer review process constitutes only the first phase of the rigorous review process that Fulbright applicants undergo. Your application will be forwarded to: the Public Affairs Section, U.S. Embassy in Lithuania, the U.S. Department of State, and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Applications will be reviewed in light of program priorities and budget. Not all applications that were recommended in the peer review process will be selected for grants.
I am blessed to be on the planning committee as well as serve as a mentor to several teams of developers competing in this hackathon. Numerous industry leading professionals presented and participated in this ground-break event - click on this https://www.wyohackathon.io/ to see the list of participants.
So blessed to lead this new program - looking forward to mentoring new students as they start their journey toward this promising and exciting field!
Here is the WVVA NBC station interview coverage. I am blessed to work with great people from NICERC and Bluefield College to facilitate a Cyber Literacy Workshop for local home-school, middle and high teachers in the Bluefield area. Dr. Gardner filled these two days choke full of relevant content to equip these educators to teach cyber literacy in their upcoming school year.
I am looking forward to working with the leadership team at Knowbella Tech - what a talented and dedicated forward-looking management team! The Knowbella Platform unlocks the unrealized value of up to $4 trillion of global orphaned intellectual property by crowdsourcing it to researchers and providing tools and incentives for scientific collaboration.
September 6, 2014
God’s common grace to Mankind is evident everywhere, for large and small entities. He will use technology to serve His purposes. It is up to us to use technology in such a way that honors Him. This, Google and similar (Facebook) projects have the potential to reach the ‘unreachables’….
