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Slideshow: Brain Work Gets New Digs at MIT

A publishing magnate and MIT alumnus dedicates a brain research center at the institute. He hopes to lower the $500 billion annual cost of neurological disorders in the United States. By Mark Baard.
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Audience members watch the dedication ceremony for the McGovern Institute. Researchers, along the open walkways above, emerged from their offices and labs to observe.

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The McGovern Institute complex was built to straddle freight railroad tracks along Vassar Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Architectural designs compete along Vassar Street, which one visitor called "Prestige Alley." The Stata Complex, left, now faces the McGovern complex, right.
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Ethernet inventor Bob Metcalfe was among the invited speakers at the dedication of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT.