http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/06/03/science_center.html
Columbia to Launch New Neuroscience Center in New York City
with the Largest Gift in University History
The Jerome L. Greene Science Center funded by the largest gift
given to a U.S. University for a single facility
Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger today announced plans
to establish The Jerome L. Greene Science Center, a new research and
teaching facility that will serve as the intellectual home for
Columbia's expanding initiative in Mind, Brain and Behavior. The
Center is made possible by a gift from Dawn M. Greene and the Jerome
L. Greene Foundation, to honor her late husband, Jerome L. Greene (
Columbia College '26, Columbia Law School '28), a prominent New York
lawyer, real estate investor and philanthropist. Currently valued at
more than $200 million, the gift is the largest ever received by
Columbia University. It is also the largest private gift received by
any U.S. university for the creation of a single facility. The Center
will be led by the renowned neurobiologist Dr. Thomas Jessell, and
Nobel laureates Dr. Richard Axel and Dr. Eric Kandel.
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