[Cu-wireless] Grant Possibility for CWN from NSF:

[Sascha Meinrath]

On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Wendy Edwards wrote:

> It looks like the proposal has to be submitted by a US college or
> university.  In our case, I'm guessing that means UIUC.  It requires the
> PI (or co-PI) to be a "senior institutional administrator (dean or
> higher)."  Do we already have an eligible person who's willing to do this?
> LIS could be a good partner, and they have one person who's a dean
> (Unsworth) and some associate deans.  Curt McKay is wonderful, and Linda
> Smith seemed nice when I met her.

the director of ICR is talking with the dean of the college of
communications this week.  so it should be in the bag.

--sascha

> On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Sascha Meinrath wrote:
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> > Hi all,
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> > Just a reminder, the letter of intent on this grant is due by March 10th.
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Sascha Meinrath
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Acorn Active Media Foundation   ***     Eggplant Active Media
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