Warren Alpert, founder of the convenience store chain Xtra Mart, is giving $100 million to the Brown University Medical School, and in return, it will be renamed in his honor. “The scope of the gift is so significant that it will affect virtually every dimension of the medical school,” President Ruth J. Simmons of Brown said. The gift is the largest ever received by the medical school. Herbert Kaplan, president of the Warren Alpert Foundation, said Mr. Alpert, 86, had always been fascinated by medical education.
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