Mr. Grano's proposal also calls for an amphitheater for presentations to visiting students.
It now includes lots of Chinese mainlanders, both visiting students and businessmen.
Last week, visiting students marveled at the animals many had seen only in cartoon form.
Teams of psychology graduate students, professors and clergy have been visiting students.
In the end, tuition will determine where visiting students come from, or whether they come at all.
All told, about 100 graduate students, including visiting students from the museum's longtime partner universities and postdoctoral fellows, roam the fifth floor.
The Visionaire, an eco-friendly building with a LEED rating of platinum, frequently hosts visiting students — from elementary schools to graduate schools — interested in the building's "green" design.
At most host sites, school authorities sequestered visiting students and used staggered schedules to ensure that student populations would not cross paths.
The source of the government's seeming callousness is its amply demonstrated inability to keep track of visiting students and tourists who overstay their legal entry permits.
Also, some visiting students had peeled the red gel blobs from a bench in his hallway, using them to add voluptuous, if mock-slutty, effect to their silhouettes.
On a sunny morning this spring, the four first-years — and two visiting students from other New York grad schools — gathered for their "Evolution" seminar in a cozy classroom that reflects the museum's Victorian character.
