Cornell wins New York science campus

摘要

Look out Boston and San Francisco. New York City has signed off on a US$2-billion science and engineering campus to stimulate high-tech industry and inspire new start-up companies. On 19 December, New York's mayor, Michael Bloomberg, chose a bid by Cornell University and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, which he called the "boldest and mostrnambitious" of seven applications received in a year-long contest. With $450 million in hand, a new campus (artist s impression pictured) is slated to be built on Roosevelt Island by 2017. It will admit 75 full-time faculty members and 300 graduate students; an expansion to 280 faculty and 2,000 students is planned over the next three decades. See go.nature.com/733z3e for more.