Self-made millionaire entrepreneur Warren Alpert will give $100 million to the Medical School, the University will announce today.
The gift ties for the largest single gift in the University's history with a 2004 donation for undergraduate financial aid from liquor magnate Sidney Frank '42. News of the gift first appeared in today's Wall Street Journal.
The Med School will be renamed for Alpert, who graduated from Boston University in 1942 and whose Providence-based company, Warren Equities Inc., specializes in retail food and fuel, according to the Journal. Alpert's donation will be used to finance a new building for the Med School as well as medical-student scholarships, new faculty and biomedical research, the Journal reported.
Albert's foundation, the Warren Alpert Foundation, has previously donated large sums to Harvard Medical School and Mt. Sinai Hospital, but the gift to Brown is the foundation's largest.
- Herald staff reports
