Integration of Krasnow Institute at GMU
The cover of the Fourth Estate illustrates students conducting research. The article states that most students conduct neuroscience research as the major is housed in Krasnow, but other types of research are also housed there.
A Fourth Estate article written in the summer of 2013, describing research done by students in Krasnow. It starts by first talking about the history of the Krasnow Institute. It was founded in 1993 by Nobel laureates Murray Gell-Mann and Herbert A. Simon is using the money left by Shelly Krasnow. It merged with GMU in 2002 and became an academic unit in 2007.
The Krasnow Institute has funded research in many Neurological developments, including Alzheimer's disease and memory loss. Innovation of studies is continuing, including housing the only Neuroscience Lab that GMU undergraduate students are offered.
This the a letter from the Office of the Dean to Dr. Harold Morowitz, which discusses the beginning of the Krasnow Institute, and its start of adding a Psychology fellowship for students.
Neuroscience classes began to be added to the psychology curriculum at George Mason University in 1996 - 1997, which is around the same time GMU opened the Krasnow Institute for research.
At this time, the Department of Psychology was looking for a Cognitive Psychologist, while Dr. Harold Marowitz was offered the joint position of head of the institute.
Letter to Dean Andrew Sage, discussing how the Krasnow Institute will begin its production for students and research in the fall of 1994. With the use of the donations from Shelly Krasnow.
Here, there is a conversation discussing the idea of starting up at least two academic fellowships for students and requesting to gain assistant professors who can start teaching at the institute. At this time, the Krasnow Institute began to only offer programs for post-graduate students looking for advanced Neuroscience research.
An Agenda Meeting took place in 1991 to discuss the production of creating the Krasnow building, which discussed where, how, and the loan process from George Mason University.
The agenda took care of many matters, including building locations, architecture selection, and the loan application that the George Mason University Foundation will submit. All of which will take into consideration the development of research that will continue for the research.
Today, the Krasnow Institute is no longer funded by George Mason University, which came into effect in 2017, whereas today it is funded by private donations and the GMU's separate colleges (ex., GMU College of Science).