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Columbia University, , Prof. Jerome L. Greene

Updated On 02 Feb, 19

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Jerome L. Greene Science Center Will Be Interdisciplinary Hub - What Songbirds Can Teach Us About the Brain - A Conversation With Eric Kandel - Announcement of the New Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute - A Major Cause of Age Related Memory Loss Identified - Study Advances New Theory of How the Brain Is Wired - Thomas M. Jessell Discusses MBBI and the Greene Science Center - Faculty Forum on Interdisciplinary Neuroscience - Imaging the Living Brain

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Lecture 4: Announcement of the New Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute

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Watch the introduction to the Dec. 17 forum, with remarks by Columbia President Lee C. Bollinger, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Mortimer B. Zuckerman. (1918)

Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger announced Dec. 17 that Mortimer B. Zuckerman has pledged $200 million to endow a Mind Brain Behavior Institute to support interdisciplinary neuroscience research and discovery by scholars across the University. Later that morning, Zuckerman and Bollinger attended a university forum featuring the Institutes founding co-directors, Thomas Jessell and Nobel laureates Richard Axel and Eric Kandel, to discuss plans for the Institute. They were joined at the announcement by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

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