Mort Zuckerman gifts $200 million to Columbia for mind research



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Mon Dec 17, 2012 4:01pm EST


NEW YORK (Reuters) – Mortimer Zuckerman, a authority and arch executive of bureau owners Boston Properties Inc, has affianced $200 million to award a Mind Brain Behavior Institute during Columbia University.

“At a root, this is an investment in achieved scholars whose common goal is both larger bargain of a tellurian condition and a find of new cures for tellurian suffering,” Zuckerman pronounced in a statement.

The Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute will be located within a 450,000 square-foot Jerome L. Greene Science Center, a centerpiece of a University’s new Manhattanville campus in New York’s Harlem neighborhood.

It will turn a heart of cross-campus investigate on mind science, bringing together researchers from Columbia University Medical Center, a Faculty of Arts and Sciences, a Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, and other schools to combine on pioneering investigate in a neural sciences and a far-reaching array of educational fields involving tellurian behavior.

Zuckerman also is publisher of U.S. News World Report and a New York Daily News.

(Reporting By Ilaina Jonas)

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