Academic Quality Fund

of Proposed Project Professors Dasgupta, Murray, Byard and Silman of Engineering, Arts and Sciences, Historic Preservation, and Architecture, respectively, wish to submit a request for $250,000 to establish, over two years, a collaborative research and education program in the documentation, conservation, and interpretation of historic structures. The areas of interest are: i) engineering analysis; ii) emergency intervention and extended monitoring; iii) field study and site testing; iv) archiving, searching, and sharing primary resources; and v) undergraduate learning, graduate training, and pre-college instruction. An integrated and global approach focused on key case studies will address the multiple, complex problems facing humanity’s endangered legacy of historic