Selected students will spend a year at Tsinghua University in Beijing.

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Nor was it to be solely a research facility. (Stanford has one at Peking University, in Beijing.) Faculty members across the country would share videoconference screens, and students in New York would be able to take online classes based in Palo Alto.

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Students are also looking further afield than long-popular Europe, heading instead to places like Tsinghua University in Beijing.

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