New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg will deliver the convocation address to this year’s graduating seniors, the Class of 2012 Convocation Committee announced Wednesday.

While New York City politicians trumpeted the expected economic effects of Cornell’s new tech campus, Roosevelt Island residents expressed a degree of concern about how the new school might change their community.

The foundation of mega-philanthropist Charles Feeney ’56 was responsible for the $350 million donation that helped propel Cornell to the top of the tech campus competition, Cornell will announce Tuesday.

If New York City selects Cornell’s bid to build an applied sciences campus on Roosevelt Island, Cornell will build the largest building in the northeastern United States that creates as much energy as it uses, the University announced Monday.

Speaking to an audience of Cornell alumni on Tuesday at Google’s New York City headquarters, Prof. Dan Huttenlocher, dean of Computing and Information Science, revealed an outline of the University’s proposal to construct an engineering and applied science campus on Roosevelt Island.