The State University of New York at Stony Brook will use the appropriation to build the Innovation and Discovery Centre.
The 2014 New York state budget has appropriated $60m to Stony Brook University, a public research university, to build its Innovation and Discovery Centre. The money is allocated as part of New York’s governor Andrew Cuomo’s Start-Up NY initiative.
As an appropriation, the fund will go specifically toward building the centre at the Research and Development Park, an area of 240 acres located a mile off campus and acquired in 2005 through a controversial compulsory purchase (eminent domain) that cost…
