Dean of the Faculty Mary Fennell said she will return to her duties as a professor of sociology and community health at the end of the academic year.… The Brown Annual Fund raised a record $19.7 million last fiscal year, an increase of 15 percent over the year before.… Jannella Sanbour ’07 and Sobondo Josiah ’07 were named City of Providence scholars, an award given to Brown students from local public schools.… Health and Education Leadership for Providence (HELP), created in 1994 by hospitals and schools (including Brown) to contribute money to Providence, became a casualty of the new financial agreement between the city and its colleges (see story on opposite page).… The Watson Institute hosted Israeli and Palestinian scholars as part of a three-year look at environmental policy in the Middle East.… A summer student was arrested after police found him with a fifty-pound bag of chocolate-covered hallucinogenic mushrooms.
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