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Google Donates Space for NYC Tech

According to a report in Bloomberg Businessweek, Google Inc. has agreed to donate space for a temporary home for CornellNYC Tech while the campus is being constructed on Roosevelt Island in New York City.

Google CEO Larry Page made the announcement at a press conference with Cornell President David Skorton and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

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The PeacemakerGetting Technical The Peacemaker (1 comments) John Marks ’65 has a rare job description: he aims to end war forever. Marks is founder and president of Search for Common Ground, a nonprofit that promotes peace and tolerance around the globe, through everything from multi-ethnic kindergartens in… Read more... Getting Technical (7 comments) After an intense year-long process, Cornell has won the right to create an ambitious, industry-focused, two-million-square-foot applied sciences campus in New York City. To be built on Roosevelt Island, the endeavor is unfolding both on the fast track and over… Read more...

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The PeacemakerGetting Technical

The Peacemaker (1 comments)

John Marks ’65 has a rare job description: he aims to end war forever. Marks is founder and president of Search for Common Ground, a nonprofit that promotes peace and tolerance around the globe, through everything from multi-ethnic kindergartens in… Read more...

Getting Technical (7 comments)

After an intense year-long process, Cornell has won the right to create an ambitious, industry-focused, two-million-square-foot applied sciences campus in New York City. To be built on Roosevelt Island, the endeavor is unfolding both on the fast track and over… Read more...

May / June 2012

Volume 114 Number 6

CurrentsGo Gators
Adam Hall '09 is a rare breed: an Ivy League-educated alligator wrestler

A Drop to Drink
'Pro bono capitalist' Kevin McGovern '70 aims to bring potable water to the developing world

Mind's Eye
Jay Walker's library of human imagination comes to campus

Om...Fore!
Psychologist teaches Zen of golf to the likes of Vijay Singh

Out of This World
Professors Mason Peck and Steve Squyres '78, PhD 81, are helping to pilot NASA's technology policy into the final frontier

Uptown Dreams
Activist entrepreneur Joe Holland '78, MA '79, reflects on his eclectic career—and his august father, Brud Holland '39, MS '41—in From Harlem with Love

Maize Craze
Building a better microwave popcorn

Just the Ticket (1 comment)
'All Aboard' for '52 Reunion

From David SkortonSustainability: One of the Defining Challenges of Our Time

The Big PictureMeet Wee Stinky

CorrespondenceA Titanic Adventure
100 years later, the ill-fated voyage still resonates

From The HillHail and Farewell (1 comment)
Remembering Dale Corson

From The HillDragon vs. Phoenix
Burns Elected Dean of the Faculty; U.S. News Lauds Engineering Grad Programs; Bloomberg to Speak at Convocation; Gates Hall Breaks Ground; Engineering Grad Student Dies; Record High for Admissions Applications; Funds Earmarked for Gorge Safety

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