$1M gift launches Cornell Tech’s Public Interest Tech

Cornell Tech has announced a $1 million grant from The Atlantic Philanthropies to jumpstart its Public Interest Tech (PiTech) initiative. PiTech will be geared toward developing the tools, systems, data sets, research, and education needed to address significant public sector concerns. The gift will help Cornell Tech create the foundational infrastructure for the PiTech initiative, … Read the full story

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Milsteins endow technology and humanity program

A $20 million gift from the Milstein family will launch the new Milstein Program in Technology and Humanity, a collaboration between the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) and Cornell Tech that will pioneer a new approach to developing 21st century leaders and innovators. The program bridges two campuses to deliver a unique multidisciplinary curriculum … Read the full story

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Neafseys fund Cornell Tech’s top academic post

John P. Neafsey ’61, MEng ’62, MBA ’63 and his wife, Rilla, have endowed the top academic leadership position at Cornell Tech, currently held by Dean and Vice Provost Daniel P. Huttenlocher. “The opportunities for Cornell Tech are boundless, and it has done extraordinarily well in getting underway,” said Neafsey, a retired Sun Co. executive … Read the full story

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Tech support: Milestone gifts support Cornell Tech

Just six years after Cornell won the bid to create Cornell Tech in partnership with The Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, the new campus on Roosevelt Island in New York City has opened and was dedicated on September 13. Cornell Tech’s early success and future promise spring not only from the visionary ideas and energy of … Read the full story

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