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President Charles M. Vest, Barbara Picower, Jeffry Picower and Professor Susumu Tonegawa at last week's announcement of the Picower Foundation's gift of $50 million to establish the Picower Center for Learning and Memory at MIT. An architect's early design model for the new center can be seen on the table behind them.

$50 million Picower gift will support brain research at MIT

May 15, 2002

Health Sciences and Technology's Taplin Awards symposium set for May 22

May 15, 2002

$50 million Picower Foundation gift supports ground-breaking brain research at MIT

Single largest gift from a private foundation in MIT's history establishes the Picower Center for Learning and Memory Nobel laureate Tonegawa's goal is to discover how the brain functions and what causes schizophrenia, Alzheimer's and other diseases

May 9, 2002

Members of Wilson TurboPower Inc. collect the $25,000 grand prize from the Social Ventures business plan competition. Pictured (left to right) are: Richard McRay (S.B. 1961, S.M.), Professor Emeritus David Gordon Wilson of mechanical engineering, John Wasserlein (S.B. 1963), graduate student in management Joern Kallmeyer, friend of the team Fredric Young (S.M. 1960) and Bruce Anderson (S.B. 1970, ...

Awards & Honors

May 8, 2002

At Monday's press conference announcing Novartis' new research center in Tech Square, the remarks of Cambridge Mayor Michael Sullivan amused (left to right) Cambridge City manager Robert Healy, MIT President Charles M.Vest, U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy and Novartis chairman and CEO, Dr. Daniel Vasella.

Novartis is opening research center in Tech Square

May 8, 2002

Novartis opens drug research center in MIT's Tech Square

May 6, 2002

ONR awards grants to three

April 24, 2002

Here & There

April 10, 2002

Engineering ranks #1 for grad schools

April 10, 2002

Engineering No. 1 among grad schools for fourteenth year in a row

Math, physics, economics, computer science top-ranked by US News & World Report

April 5, 2002

Libraries' DSpace enters testing phase

March 13, 2002

NAE elects several from MIT

February 27, 2002

NAE elects several from MIT

February 19, 2002

Science writers on campus

February 13, 2002

In the aftermath of the most memorable event of 2001, a student displays the American flag at a gathering of thousands of MIT communtiy members on Killian Court the day after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Looking back at 2001

January 9, 2002

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$50 million Picower gift will support brain research at MIT

Health Sciences and Technology's Taplin Awards symposium set for May 22

$50 million Picower Foundation gift supports ground-breaking brain research at MIT

Awards & Honors

Novartis is opening research center in Tech Square

Novartis opens drug research center in MIT's Tech Square

ONR awards grants to three

Here & There

Engineering ranks #1 for grad schools

Engineering No. 1 among grad schools for fourteenth year in a row

Libraries' DSpace enters testing phase

NAE elects several from MIT

NAE elects several from MIT

Science writers on campus

Looking back at 2001

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