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January 27, 2012

New York City Tech Campus Goes to Cornell

Jan. 27 -- In December, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Cornell University President David J. Skorton, and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology President Peretz Lavie announced an historic partnership to build a two-million-square-foot applied science and engineering campus in New York City.

The selection of the Cornell/Technion consortium -- which pairs two of the world's top institutions in the fields of science, engineering, technology and research -- marks a major milestone in the City's groundbreaking Applied Sciences NYC initiative, which seeks to increase New York City's capacity for applied sciences and dramatically transform the City's economy.

The City will provide $100 million in City capital to assist with site infrastructure, construction, and related costs on Roosevelt Island. Cornell received a $350 million gift from the Atlantic Philanthropies in December to support the project.

Cornell/Technion has laid out an aggressive rollout for the NYC Tech Campus that begins with the first set of students to be installed in the city at a temporary off-site location in 2012. The first phase of the permanent Roosevelt Island home is expected to be completed no later than 2017. The completed campus will ultimately encompass 2 million square feet that includes housing for up to 2,500 students and nearly 300 faculty members.

The campus will be organized initially around three interdisciplinary hubs -- Connective Media, Healthier Life and the Built Environment -- meant to encapsulate a wide range of disciplines and designed to evolve over time. The school will immediately offer master's and doctoral degrees in such areas as computer science, electrical and computer engineering, and information science and engineering. After receiving required accreditation, the campus will offer Technion-Cornell dual Master of Applied Sciences degrees.

Bloomberg called the planned Cornell campus a "new land grant" that will power economic growth. "We believe this new land grant can help dreamers and entrepreneurs from around the world come to New York and help us become the world's leading city for technological innovation," Bloomberg said.

"This is not an exercise in exclusion or winning," Cornell President Skorton said, before wowing the press and dignitaries with a digital fly-through of a campus rendering. "This is an exercise in inclusion and having all the ships rise in this fine city."

The campus will be a living laboratory of green building and reduced energy use. Its main educational building, which will be LEED Platinum certified, is planned to be "net-zero energy" -- harvesting as much energy from the site as it consumes. A solar array will generate 1.8 megawatts at daily peak. A four-acre geothermal well field will exceed any current geothermal heating system in the city.

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Source: Cornell University

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