Cornell’s High-Tech Campus Will Have a Temporary Home at Google

The executives of Google are putting their interests in New York City ahead of their old school ties. Larry Page, the chief executive of Google, is scheduled to announce that the company will donate space so Cornell University can have a temporary home for the applied sciences school it plans to build in the city. While the campus is under construction on Roosevelt Island, students and faculty of the new Cornell school will occupy space in Google’s massive building in the Chelsea section of Manhattan. The donation comes despite a connection between Google’s co-founders, Page and Sergey Brin, and Stanford University, which had vied with Cornell for the Roosevelt Island space. Page and Brin started the company while they were graduate students at Stanford; they even made a video pitch to support Stanford’s bid in the competition that the city set up.