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The Trehan Gift - Ranvir and Adarsh Trehan donate $1 million gift to UM to promote U.S.-India relationship

In an effort to encourage current and future collaborations between the University of Michigan and India, Ranvir and Adarsh Trehan are donating $1 million from the Trehan Foundation to their alma mater. Three CSAS faculty associates are the recipients of the first awards of the donation. These three faculty and their projects are:

A U-M Elections Research Project
This project will examine hundreds of millions of votes cast in India and analyze correlations between voting patterns and socioeconomic status. For a full description of this project led by U-M Political Science Professor Ashutosh Varshney...

Early Historic Landscapes of the Tungabhadra Corridor

This project consists of an archeological dig of prehistoric sites in India's Tungabhadra Corridor joining faculty and students from U-M, the Karnataka Department of Archaeology and Museums, the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore and Maharaja Sayajirao University in Baroda (now called Vadodara), India. For a full description of this project led by U-M Anthropology Professor Carla Sinopoli...

Tasveer Ghar

The Tasveer Ghar collaborative project is between faculty at U-M, Heidelberg University in Germany and the SARAI/Center for the Study of Developing Societies in New Delhi, India in an effort to create a trans-national digital archive for popular Indian visual culture. For a full description of this project led by U-M Screen Arts and Cultures Professor Manishita Dass....

 

For more information on the Trehans and their gift please visit the following related links:

The University Record On-Line - $1M U-M gift to promote U.S.-India relationship article

The University of Michigan News Service - Article December 15, 2006

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