Retail entrepreneur Warren Alpert's foundation has donated $100 million to Brown University's medical school. Brown is renaming its medical school after Alpert in honor of the gift, the largest in the medical school's history.
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A Providence-based philanthropy has donated $100 million to Brown University to enlarge, enhance and rename its medical school � a gift that university and public officials say will send benefits cascading to the entire state.
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Brown University's medical school receives $100 million from the Warren Alpert Foundation. The medical school will be renamed to honor Warren Alpert. This wire service article was distributed to media outlets throughout the United States.
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A new study conducted by James Russell, assistant professor of geological sciences, shows that Central equatorial Africa's benign climate over the past century could be an aberration. Russell’s findings show that for the past 1,500 years the region has suffered from frequent droughts lasting anywhere from 10 to 100 years. With growing populations already straining today's water supplies, a return to earlier conditions could be disastrous.
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An article about volunteers working at the Sundance Film Festival includes an interview with Brown junior Nick Clifford.
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Internet Web sites and search engines make it easy to track down people from the past. The research can lead to exciting reunions, but there’s no obligation to respond if you don't want to start anything, says Dr. Scott Haltzman, clinical assistant professor of psychiatry. "We shouldn't feel obligated to expand that circle just because an outsider asks us to include them." This article was republished in several other U.S. newspapers.
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David Lindstrom, associate professor of sociology, is among the experts quoted in an article about the growing Mexican presence in Connecticut.
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A look at Shape Up RI, an annual statewide health campaign that encourages Rhode Islanders to improve their health and lifestyle by increasing their levels of physical activity and adopting healthful eating habits. The campaign was created by Rajiv Kumar, a second-year medical student at Brown University.
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A presentation at Brown University by actress Mia Farrow, speaking as a UNICEF goodwill ambassador, was part of the Northeast regional conference of Students Taking Action Now: Darfur, and coincided with a two-day traveling exhibit at Brown that showed pictures taken by seven photojournalists who’ve covered the war in Darfur.
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G. E. Erikson, professor emeritus of medical science, is teaching a free, non-credit course called “Ventures in the History of Biology and Medicine.”
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