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Ron Paul’s presidential campaign came to Cornell University Thursday ahead of next week’s all-but-decided New York Republican primary.

Congressman Paul’s speech felt less like a Republican presidential stump speech than half-lecture and half-rally cry.

For decades, manufacturers have used 3-D printers to create prototypes. Car designers have used them to create new car models - last year, an entire car was printed. Drug makers print pills with them. One was used recently to replace a patient's jawbone.

These kinds of printers are in widespread use in industry. But because of their cost, they've flown under the radar for the general population.

Now, Cornell University is stepping in with an open source 3-D printer, that promises to bring this high tech manufacturing tool to your garage.

Since early 2011, Cornell University has been getting almost all of its heat and power from natural gas.

No longer do they have to truck in 65,000 tons of coal from Kentucky and West Virginia. No longer do they buy most of their power from the grid.

The $82 million transition to natural gas has shuttered the soot-covered corner of the plant where coal used to be turned into heat.

A new, natural gas-powered section, with its computerized emissions monitoring, shiny pipes and modern control room, feels like a break from the past as soon as you walk in.

Updated, 3:14 p.m.

It's official - Cornell University and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have won the right to build a tech campus on Roosevelt Island in New York City.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is hosting a press conference with leaders from both schools, to herald the news.  

The schools will begin offering a program in 2012, in leased space, with the first phase of construction opening in 2017.  By the end of 2018, the school is predicting that it will have 300 students enrolled, taught by 70 faculty members.

Bloomberg outlined a series of elements that put the proposal over the edge, namely the aggressiveness of the scheme:

"[This plan] called for the  most students ... the most faculty ... and the most building space," said Bloomberg.

A $150 million pot of funding for start-ups that maintain activity in the city for three years also helped sweeten the deal.

Cornell president David Skorton said the deal is a "great vote of confidence ... for a dream that we have long held.  This is a story of connectivity, connectivity between people and their ideas, between researchers and business people, and students and their dreams."

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MELISSA BLOCK, host: This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Melissa Block.

ROBERT SIEGEL, host: And I'm Robert Siegel.

Amid all the big university match-ups that excite the alumni at this time of year, here's one that actually may have educational consequences and job creation prospects beyond the NFL draft. It is Stanford versus Cornell, and maybe City University of New York, NYU, Carnegie Mellon or Columbia and perhaps a dozen or more other competitors. It's a competition to set up a new graduate school in New York City. For more on this, we're joined by Daniel Massey, who's written about this for Crain's New York Business.

You’ve probably heard about hollowing out of the middle class. It’s something you may feel, but maybe you can’t see it.

Richard Dietz has some numbers on this. He’s even got a power point. And that’s why he’s at the State of Upstate Conference hosted by Cornell this week in Syracuse.