ANN ARBOR—Crediting the University of Michigan as the springboard for their good fortune, Ranvir and Adarsh Trehan are donating $1 million from the Trehan Foundation to their alma mater to encourage current and future collaborations between U-M and India.

The Trehans came to U-M from India in 1964 with about $1,000. Ranvir Trehan, who studied operations engineering at U-M, went on to start SETA Corp. as a one-man IT solutions provider in 1987. By 2004, when it merged with Apptis Inc., SETA had more than 600 employees and annual sales of about $86 million. Today he is vice chairman of Apptis, which runs SETA as a subsidiary with clients who include most executive branch departments of the federal government.

“We feel a tremendous debt of of gratitude to the University of Michigan and hope this gift will help U-M help others,” he said.

The first three U-M projects to benefit from the gift include: