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McGovern Institute for Brain Research
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The McGovern Institute moved into its new home on Friday, November 4. Celebrating the official November 4, 2005 opening of the institute they founded in 2000, Pat and Lore McGovern hosted more than 500 guests in the sun-filled atrium of the largest neuroscience complex in the world — the brain and cognitive sciences complex at MIT.
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An overflow of onlookers lined the tiered balconies to hear the lineup of speakers, which included Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass), TV news host Jane Pauley, Nobel laureates Eric Kandel and Phillip Sharp, and Ethernet inventor Robert Metcalfe.
 | | Patrick J. McGovern |
 | | Lore Harp McGovern |
CAMBRIDGE, MA - FEBRUARY 28, 2000 - MIT today announced the creation of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, made possible by a gift from International Data Group (IDG) Founder and Chairman Patrick J. McGovern, Jr., and his wife, entrepreneur Lore Harp McGovern. The gift is expected to total $350 million over the next 20 years. The Feb. 18 edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education reported that the previous largest gift to a university was $300 million. (More...)
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Patrick J. McGovern
Patrick J. McGovern is Founder and Chairman of International Data Group (IDG), the world's leading technology publishing, research and event management company, with annual revenues in 2002 of $2.58 billion.
Lore Harp McGovern
Lore Harp McGovern, a successful entrepreneur, is the Chairman of the Board of Associates, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at MIT. Mrs. Harp McGovern also is instrumental in advising the strategic direction of several high-tech companies.
MIT Profile
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is one of the world's preeminent research universities, dedicated to advancing knowledge and educating students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Patrick J. McGovern
Patrick J. McGovern addresses questions about this significant donation to MIT.
Lore Harp McGovern
Lore Harp McGovern answers questions on why brain research has been a life long interest.
Neuroscience & Its Expanding Universe
50 years ago, the frontier of biology shifted from the level of the organism to the level of the molecule, and the result was the genetic revolution.
Neuroscience At MIT
Brain science and the neurosciences have been a fast growing field at MIT. Researches study learning as the key to understanding how the human brain works and how to make intelligent machines. MIT researchers have made substantial contributions in the field of cognitive science in the past decade.
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