05.01.2010                     29.Tevet, 5771

High-Tech:

Technion one of three non-U.S. institutions wooed for N.Y. research center

'This is an unusual compliment and shows our international standing,' says Peretz Lavie, president of Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.

The Technion is just one of three non-American academic institutions to receive an offer from New York City to help it develop a "world-class science and technology research institution" in New York.
The academic institutions, which also include American Ivy League universities like Columbia and Cornell, have until mid-March to submit an initial proposal for the center, after which those who make it past the first round can participate in a formal bidding process….