KAUST Update
Recall my October 12, 2007 article about the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, or KAUST. While I did not publicly reveal the details of our response to KAUST’s call for proposals, we did in fact submit a preproposal for a KAUST research center. (A bit more detail is available here, if you have a CMU id and password. I’ll be updating this shortly.)
On Dec.29 we were notified that our preproposal was accepted and that a full proposal is now invited. A considerable amount of work needs to be done now, in order to submit a full proposal by the Feb.15 deadline. Besides the proposal preparation, there is an ongoing review by the Board of Trustees and a planned presentation to the Faculty Senate, all prior to the submission deadline.
Stay tuned — more news in the next few days.
Peter Lee @ January 1, 2008