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Cornell Tech is hoping to channel the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology’s “atmosphere of excellence” reports The Chronicle of Higher Education:

“Cornell Tech aims to be a different kind of higher-education institution, infused with some of the Technion’s DNA, even as officials here in Israel and in New York acknowledge that a lot of the Technion’s culture — what Mr. Lautman calls its “spirit” — is intimately tied to its role in Israel’s early Zionist past and in its current high-tech boom. The challenge, says Daniel Huttenlocher, founding dean and vice provost at Cornell Tech, is ‘how can we abstract it and bring it to New York City.'”

Read the full article in The Chronicle of Higher Education.