UC San Diego Annual Financial Report, 06–07

• Introduction
• Rankings
• Letter from the Chancellor
• Letter from the Vice Chancellor for Business Affairs
• UCSD Facts
• Addressing Community Needs
• Real World Impact
• Jacobs School of Engineering
• Health Sciences
• Biological Sciences
• UCSD Libraries
• Rady School of Management
• Arts and Humanities
• Scripps Institution of Oceanography
• Physical Sciences
• San Diego Supercomputer Center
• Social Sciences
• International Relations and Pacific Studies
• CalIT2
• Student Affairs
• Extension
• Preuss School
• Financial Highlights
• Regents & Officers
• About this Report

The creation of Calit2’s new Center of Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Architecture and Archaeology (CISA3) last February brought new opportunities for UCSD students to pursue research abroad. Heading up the center is bioengineering alumnus Maurizio Seracini, ’73, a pioneer in the use of multispectral imaging and diagnostics applied to art conservation.

Initial projects include a detailed analysis of Leonardo da Vinci’s The Annunciation, and a three-year study of the Palazzo Medici. Closer to home is a CISA3 pilot project with the San Diego Museum of Art to study and document “digital clinical charts” for paintings in the museum’s permanent collection. The concept is based on medical charts, and would involve a complete battery of tests to provide a baseline for future efforts at restoration, preservation, and conservation.

In May, Italian government officials announced their search for the Battle of Anghiari mural—a long-lost da Vinci masterpiece—and put Seracini in charge of solving the 500-year-old scientific puzzle. Calit2 will develop technologies to “see” inside the Palazzo Vecchio walls and confirm, once and for all, whether or not the mural survives.

APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY
FOR INDIA’S FORGOTTEN PEOPLE

In 2006–2007, the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) reached beyond San Diego and California to the global marketplace. The U.S.-India Summit on Education, Research & Technology, hosted by Calit2, included a high-definition, videoconference address by Indian President APJ Abdul Kalam via an optical network linking New Delhi with San Diego.

The summit triggered a series of high-level meetings that culminated in a “Calit2 for India” concept. This proposed public-private partnership for research and education would develop accessible, affordable,
and culturally appropriate technologies for 700 million people in rural India who have been largely bypassed by the country’s economic miracle.

The Indian government has indicated its readiness to fund up to 49 percent of the institute on condition that Indian and U.S. corporations also get behind the plan.
A formal proposal is currently circulating among potential industry investors and non-governmental organizations. Calit2 recently signed a memorandum of understanding with India’s Department of Science and Technology to organize a Public Technology Conference and Expo in New Delhi in 2008.