Funding
How Departments are selected to receive CWSEI funding:
The current budget of $12M over 5-6 years is expected to support about five major programs at a level of several hundred thousand dollars per year per program; 10% of this budget will be set aside to fund smaller efforts outside of the major CWSEI programs. A "program" can consist of an individual department or a coalition of departments. There will be efforts to raise additional funds to make it possible to eventually support all science departments. The initiative will be implemented in stages, beginning with 2 programs receiving full support and seed funding in other areas.
Carl Wieman met with each science department in September 2006 to discuss the CWSEI. Following those meetings and incorporating the input they provided, there was a request for brief proposals from the science departments. On the basis of those proposals, two programs were selected for full support (Earth & Ocean Sciences and Life Sciences) and several departments were selected to receive seed funding.
A second request for proposals was issued in July 2007. The Physics & Astronomy and Computer Science Departments were selected to receive full support, and other departments were selected to receive seed funding.
Earth and Ocean Sciences
