University of California delegation headed to India

“A delegation of University of California faculty members and administrators led by President Robert C. Dynes will embark this week on a high-level visit to India aimed at dramatically strengthening research and educational collaborations between California and India. The week-long visit to New Delhi, Bangalore, and Mumbai beginning Feb. 17 will bring UC researchers together with leaders from some of India’s top academic, governmental, and industrial institutions to discuss how California and India can collaborate to develop solutions to common pressing challenges in science, technology, health, and economic development. Joining Dynes on the visit will be representatives of the UC-based California Institutes for Science and Innovation, UC’s Global Health Sciences initiative, UC agriculture faculty, and UC external relations staff. The delegation will meet with Indian President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, the Indian minister of science and technology, representatives of technology companies in India, leaders of several Indian research and education institutes, and Indian public health advocates. ‘Most of the challenges facing our world today are not confined within the borders of any one state or country,’ Dynes said. ‘Solving the big challenges affecting our world – and sustaining a position of leader’. “