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MIT receives $350
million gift from
publishing guru
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The
founder of computer publishing
giant International Data Group
Inc. pledged a record $350 million
to MIT on Monday to establish an
institute to study the mysteries of
the mind.
The donation, to be given over
20 years, is the largest ever made
to a university.
“Creation of the McGovern In
stitute for Brain Research will
launch one of the most profound
and important scientific ventures
of the next century and what sure
ly will be a cornerstone of MIT’s
scientific contributions in the
decades ahead,” said Charles
Vest, president of the Massachu
setts Institute of Technology.
The new institute, named for
IDG founder and chairman
Patrick J. McGovern Jr. and his
wife, Lore Harp McGovern, will
focus on human learning and
communication.
It will take an interdisciplinary
approach that includes neuro
science, molecular neurobiology,
bioengineering, cognitive sci
ences, computation and genetics.
The McGoverns said they de
cided to give to brain research be
cause the discipline is on the cusp
of major advances.
Patrick McGovern studied life
sciences at MIT, where he re
ceived his undergraduate degree
in 1959. Five years later, he found
ed IDG, publisher of Computer
world, The Industry Standard and
PC World. He has launched more
than 290 computer magazines
and newspapers in 80 countries.
Lore Harp McGovern co-found
ed Vector Graphics, one of the ear
liest PC companies, in 1976 and is
involved with numerous startup
ventures in Silicon Valley.
“Within the next 20 years, as we
move into the knowledge econo
my, we hope that the interdiscipli
nary research at the McGovern In
stitute will lead to improvements
in receiving, analyzing, associating,
storing, retrieving and communi
cating information,” Patrick Mc
Govern said. “These scientific ad
vances will result in enhancements
to the standard of living and quality
of life around the world. ”
The McGovern Institute will be
headed by Phillip A. Sharp, a mo
lecular biologist who received the
Nobel Prize in 1993 for his discov
ery of surplus DNA and his work
with gene splicing.
The gift also allows for a team
of 16 investigators, including 10
new faculty members, each of
whom will hold a joint appoint
ment in other departments, such
as brain and cognitive science, bi
ology or linguistics.
According to The Chronicle of
Higher Education, the next largest
gift to a university was $300 mil
lion to Vanderbilt in 1998 from
the Ingram Charitable Fund, cre
ated by E. Bronson Ingram and
Martha Ingram .
Microsoft’s Bill Gates has given
more than $1 billion to higher edu
cation, but most of the money went
toward scholarships and was not
given specifically to a university.
Chemical magnate Jon Hunts
man has given $151 million over
the past five years to open a cancer
institute at the University of Utah.
And last year, the W.M. Keck
Foundation, named for the
founder of Superior Oil Co., gave
$110 million to the University of
Southern California’s medical
school to support research.
The Associated Press
Ventura totes many
ideas to convention
By Frederic J. Frommer
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Minnesota
Gov. Jesse Ventura urged President
Clinton to increase funding for
special education and questioned
why the United States doesn’t es
tablish normal trade relations with
Cuba during a visit to the White
House Monday.
He also said Clinton commend
ed him for having the “courage” to
leave the Reform Party.
As usual, Ventura was the
celebrity of the annual National
Governors Association meeting,
drawing a pack of journalists, ad
miring hellos from Secret Service
officers and at least one request for
a photograph.
And he did nothing to dampen
his place in the spotlight.
“Washington is always recep
tive to Minnesota because we’re
really the leader of the country,
when it comes to making deci
sions and electing rogue governors
and taking chances and having
courage and intestinal fortitude,”
he declared after the meeting with
Clinton and other governors.
Ventura said Reform Party poli
tics came up in a conversation
with the president.
“He commended me for my
courage in my decision to step away
from the Reform Party,” Ventura
said. “He said that took a lot of guts,
but it was the right thing to do. ”
Ventura's most crucial message
to the White House was to increase
funding for special education.
“Quit dilly-dallying around
with all the feel-good stuff; fund
their mandate with special ed, and
we in the states will have the best
education systems we possibly
can if they do that,” he said.
Trade also came up at the meet
ing, and Ventura said he supports
Clinton’s efforts to allow China into
the World Trade Organization.
“To me, in lie- of our world of
technology, you ^un’t build a wall
around your country,” he said.
“You go out, and you compete.”
But he called it a “bit of
hypocrisy ' to pursue normal trade
relations with China while main
taining a trade embargo against
Cuba. Several lawmakers from farm
states like Minnesota have made
similar arguments, seeing Cuba as a
potential market for agriculture.
“I wanted a clearer message on
why China and not Cuba,” Ventura
said. “They gave me a lot of reasons
that didn’t hold a lot of water.”
At one point, the chairman of the
governors association, Republican
Gov. Mike Leavitt of Utah, had to lit
erally move Ventura along.
“I’ve never been able to figure
out how to move Jesse Ventura
aside, but we have to report on the
meeting,” he said with a laugh.