He grew accustomed to such challenges after helping to conceive and launch Cornell Tech. “This new Innovation Campus is really going to be focused on technology development — particularly technology that’s relevant to society,” Collins said in a telephone interview. The Alexandria campus of Virginia Tech and an expansion of George Mason’s operations in Arlington were selling points in the campaign to lure Amazon to Northern Virginia. Sands wants to forge a similar connection between Virginia Tech’s main campus in Blacksburg, which lies more than 200 miles southwest of Alexandria, and the Innovation Campus. ADADUnder Collins, Cornell recently erased the gender gap in a field historically tilted toward men: Half its undergraduate engineering students are now women.

Source: Washington Post February 03, 2020 04:52 UTC