Universities Apply to Start Science Campus in New York City

New York City officials on Thursday announced an impressive list of proposals from universities around the world to build a new engineering and science campus in the city, The Wall Street Journal reported. Among the universities seeking to do so are institutions in Canada, India, Israel, Korea and Finland. Proposals also arrived from Columbia, Cornell and Stanford Universities and the City University of New York. Some of the proposals are for partnerships, such as one involving New York University, Carnegie Mellon, the City University of New York, the University of Toronto, and IBM.