This state-of-the-art facility, which will house not only the McGovern Institute, but the MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and the Picower Center for Learning and Memory, is scheduled to be completed in 2005.

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"The beautiful new building, with its mixture of bold limestone facade and plate glass, will be the working place of 16 investigators and numerous students and fellows. ...All of us thank the McGoverns and MIT for creating the future through the building of the structure."
— Robert Desimone

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The 140,000 square-foot, state-of-the-art research facility will house the laboratories of 16 global leaders in neuroscience.  The McGovern Institute will be located within the brain and cognitive sciences project, a 410,000 square-foot structure that also includes facilities for the Picower Center for Learning and Memory and the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences.  Each of the three entities will surround a central atrium that will help facilitate communication among faculty and students. The complex is scheduled to be completed in 2005.  The architectural design for the entire project is a collaborative effort of Boston-based Goody, Clancy & Associates and Charles Correa Associates of Bombay, India.

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