USF receives $2.3M for cybersecurity college

The University of South Florida announced Tuesday that it has received $2.3 million in private donations for its newest college, the Bellini College of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Computing.

The announcement came during the university’s inaugural CyberBay conference — a three-day event that aims to bring together leaders in the technology, academic, government and military sectors for conversations on cybersecurity, national security and artificial intelligence. 

USF President Rhea Law opened the conference by announcing that she has made a personal donation of $1 million to the new Bellini College, which was matched by her friends and fellow philanthropists Kate Tiedemann and Ellen Cotton.